I thought that it was appropriate to solicit a haiku for our first poetry entry. Luckily, it was quite easy to persuade the writer to contribute. I wish I could create haikus that were this good. I’m usually lucky if I can get it to rhyme. And still half of them sound like knock-knock jokes […]
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Time Is Running Out – Energy Strategy Part 1
Our culture today is like a donkey starving to death when he is sitting right between two piles of hay, but can’t decide between the two alternatives. I am referring here to the tension between the two camps regarding energy policy: one says that we must immediately drop all use of fossil fuels at the […]
Open the Processors!
My bachelor’s degree was focused on computer architecture and logical design, and even though I don’t work in that field now, I still have a love for it. When I had a chance, I would sometimes implement “soft” processors within programmable logic and get them to operate in the context of a whole lot of […]
Cloudflare Has a Silver Lining
When I first looked at Cloudflare I was confused. I was looking for certain things in a DNS provider, and what they offered didn’t seem to correspond to anything that I was familiar with. I just figured that these were things that must be for big web sites for big companies, and went on to […]