It’s Like Thunder, Lightning

One of the few things I miss about the midwest (besides family) are the late spring and early summer thunder storms. Towering clouds, building up all day, explode with a blindingly bright, deafeningly explosive fury of lightning and then … wait … thunder, for which there is no comparison.

Or is there?

While I had …

Welcome! This is the first post at my new hosting service, pair.com. Actually, I’ve been using pair to host glowrocks.com for almost as long as my other ISP (to be named once I’m free of their incompetent clutches).

There are bound to be a few broken links, etc. but for the most …

I don’t normally indulge in these “personality” quizzes, but for some reason I took the animal personality test. The results were not entirely inaccurate, and also, not too embarassing:

BTW, the complete set of possible results is available; there was one other animal that I thought …

As one with more than a passing familiarity with unix server design and sys-admin issues, I found this in-depth article describing google’s server architecture a fascinating read.

While the emphasis is on the hardware design choices, there is also quite a bit of info regarding the information flow through the system, from indexing the …

We took off a couple of days last week and spent a few days up at Lake Tahoe. The weather was great, with warm temps and great visibility. Spent some time geocaching, driving around the lake taking pictures, and just enjoying the change of pace. We even snuck in a quick …

I’ve been thinking about this notion that google might start segregating blog search results. I have questions about how they would be able to tell a blog from “regular” content. Also, while granting the ephemeral nature of many blog entries, (though in aggregate such posts can still reveal interesting data, such as …

Thanks to a tip I found at Dive Into Mark, both of my RSS feeds now validate.

I was also pleased to find my CSS page validates, though it does generate some warnings as well.

It should be noted that the RSS standard is not as well established as either the CSS or …