Last week my prof was telling me about Akamai and how they built a buisness around providing ISP level caching for some large businesses (including Apple). Interestingly I when searching for the new Lord of the Rings trailer I found this link: http://a772.g.akamai.net/…./returnoftheking_m480.mov.

Just thought I should comment a little more on the WWMX thing. It’s too bad it’s being run by Microsoft. There is at least a web client, but I doubt you’ll see a desktop client other than the .NET one. But I don’t think they’re doing it right anyway. People should just post their pictures [...]

First impression of CS 456. In case it changes, what I saw was a page saying “This page has moved!”. No indication of where it moved to. How stupid. At least point me to where I can now find the site.

I was recruited to be part of the Blast Buster Team here at Grebel. UW has become paranoid about gettting viruses since they got taken down by the Blaster virus last month. Now before a computer can be hooked up to resnet it must be inspected by a member of the Blast Buster Team. In [...]

Last Saturday I went got a haircut at First Choice and while trying to pay with my debit card I was told I had “insufficent funds”. I had just deposited some checks the a couple days before but even without that had knew I should have around $200. I didn’t have internet or a phone [...]

It’s been just over a week since I moved into my new Grebel apartment. It is pretty sweet. I’ve lived two terms off campus in Waterloo and both times I had to do a lot of cleaning in order to make the place liveable. So I glad to be in a brand new place.