Instant Message Excerpt: On Being a Network Engineer, 7

| January 10, 2009

Some nights at work don’t go as one might hope. Bob(14:24:13): Russ Russ(14:24:31): yo Bob(14:24:31): could u help me on something please I’m a pretty helpful guy, so sure, I could help. It’s just what I do. But then: Bob(14:24:37): not a big deal… Untruer words were never spoken. Later… much later… after 5+ hours […]

Quote of the Day

| January 7, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: It was not surprising, but entirely predictable that a nation that sixty years ago produced napalm, flamethrowers — and eventually A-bombs — to combat thousands of suicidal warriors would retain the organization and willpower to incinerate a few hundred suicide bombers and their enclaves of support. From his book Ripples of Battle: […]