the tl;dr summary - this stuff is hard. really, really hard, there are no easy answers and ones ability to make effective personal changes in their lifestyle has depressingly limited impact.

an interesting nugget dislodged from the reading queue re: the second order effects of intervening in libya.

if you have to deal with big ass arrays of IP addresses in perl and you need to sort things. i recommend reading the following paper.

because everywhere i go DHCP shoves its crap at me.

unfortunately, they usually suck.

i’ve often found myself wondering if W was really as obtuse as he seemed publicly.

in no particular order.