Today I'd like to send out three quick pleas for your support of other folk trying to fight the good fight for reason and science.
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Help Skepticon III: They are getting so many reservations to attend that they are just about past their current venue size of 500, and reservations are accelerating, so projecting forward they are likely to have 1000 or so attending this year, which means they
Book Updates
I've been very busy of late, almost underground working furiously away, but I finally found a hiatus to blog some news. I have a hodgepodge of things to mention. Two items today...
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First big news is that Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism is now available as an eBook. You can buy it in various places, but most obviously on Amazon.com (click for Kindle
TICTOC update
This entry is an update for people who have been following the IETF TICTOC working group that I chair. We had a very lively meeting yesterday, and the topic that evoked the most interest was that of how to transfer timing flows (especially 1588, but NTP as well) over MPLS networks.The first question is why anything special treatment is needed here at all - after all, anything that can be carried
Trains, planes, MPLS, and IP
I am in Maastricht at the 78th IETF meeting.In the weeks before the meeting many IETF'ers complained about the fact that there were no direct flights to the venue. The closest airports are Amsterdam and Brussels, but from there three trains had to be taken.At first I had thought that the problem was related to carrying luggage between trains, but discovered that the concerns were more about the
Succulents and (tele)protection mechanisms
My wife and I cultivate succulents, plants that store water. Cacti are succulents, but we don’t collect them – only the cuddly and outwardly types. What I find so interesting about succulents is that the various types are relatively unrelated – there was never a proto-succulent that evolved into many subspecies. Instead many different kinds of plants developed similar mechanisms to cope with the
Shaping / policing in 3G networks
This is my first blog entry on the world of traffic shaping. We have all been hearing about the need for shaping in 3G mobile networks. The subject’s popularity exploded with the publicity of network overload problems that some operators were experiencing with the introduction of the iPhone. Most of that turned out to be due to signaling overload. However, almost everyone is convinced that if
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