July 2010
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Liveblogging from North Battleford, SK
Well, for those of you not aware, we arrived in North Battleford, SK, early this afternoon after a two-day, sixteen-hour family road trip after a stop in Calgary, AB, to pick-up my sister. We’re here to attend a wedding of a long-time family friend who is the daughter of the lifelong friend of my mom’s.
The trip was mostly uneventful except for a massive thunderstorm and rainshower...
February 2010
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I'm "buzzing" around
I wanted to apologize for the lack of activity around here lately, although I should point out that my lengthy comparative analysis of various free, public authoritative and recursive DNS resolving services has been updated to include yet another new competitor to the mix, DNS Resolvers by Toronto, ON-based easyDNS Technologies. I would encourage everyone to read it - or re-read it, as the case...
January 2010
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Public DNS space getting crowded
An Internet colleague of mine recently wrote about Internet conglomerate Google’s entry into the public DNS space with the launch of Google Public DNS as a standards-compliant alternative to OpenDNS and the DNS services provided by your ISP. While it’s true that Google Public DNS returns standard DNS results and doesn’t use NXDOMAIN substitution, it wasn’t the first public...
December 2009
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Odds & Sods is now on Tumblr
I am somewhat of a blogging pioneer, having personally blogged on a variety of topics ranging from the personal to current events, business and technology news off and on on a variety of platforms since 2000. That last one never really got off the ground although I admire Posterous for its dead simple user interface, custom domains and nice, plain templates. Tumblr just seems to be taking off a...