April 2009 Archives

Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 4.5. It marks a ten year milestone for me and triggered this bit of nostalgia.

I completed an exhaustive search for software to manage my personal web site. I evaluated numerous blog engines, content management systems, web application frameworks, and Everything2. Here are the 10 reasons why I selected Movable Type for my site.

I've frequently witnessed load average used to argue a server needs faster CPU's. While load average is an interesting number, it is not the end all measure of a servers performance.

Email can be an enormous time sink. Here are three steps I took to remove unnecessary email from my in-box and recover previously wasted time.

The best technical staff are hard to find and harder to retain. They are exactly the folks you want to make your organization successful. If you choose to reduce head count when tough times hit, you just might lose them even though you didn't cut them.

Legacy applications have three significant cost drivers that will punish the unwary. These cost drivers highlight why you need to migrate away from legacy systems and how delaying action significantly increases your risk of catastrophic failure.

I just returned home from a two week vacation. I'm refreshed, recharged, and happy even after driving a minivan over 2,000 miles.