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  • if we simply make it all harder to use…

    I’m not impressed by much in the virtualization space… they’re all done with their two valid use cases and are trying to expand into unnatural places. The valid use cases are the obvious data center centralization and what I’ll call general geekery. Data center centralization is a backlash against the common sysadmin practice of one…

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  • Software Senescence Engine

    Companies, like individuals, have an inverse relationship between money, time, and age. When your company is young, you have lots of time and little money. Although it feels like there’s very little time at all because you’re continually struggling to prevail in the market, there’s actually a great deal of time available for problem-solving, and…

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  • Coates Laws of Suckage

    Law the First: People Suck. This is nothing about particular types or roles of people, it’s just a statement of fact. I am people and I suck too. We’ve got brains hard-wired to look for free gravy and four-leaf clovers, and we spend way too much time doing it wrong, doing it over, and bickering over…

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  • 10 years on

    The oldest site on the Wayback Machine is my first Zope site, from early 2002, but I’ve had a website and a home server since 1998. I’m pretty sure I registered the domain name in 1999 or so, but can’t find any records. From Slackware through Red Hat through Mandrake through SuSE to Ubuntu, served…

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  • mission statement

    Through embracing and extending our valued employees, we will functionally evaluate and thereby perform thorough analysis, quantification, and optimization of all interactions, self-initiated or otherwise, between lower, hairier members of the primate family and assorted forms of pasta (including but not limited to the Italianate and Sino-Asian families of wheat, rice, and soy flours). We…

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