It’s my first anniversary of living in Belgium! Rather than write a long retrospective that only I will end up reading, I’ve selected a photo and tweet of mine for each month: “Bought a box of ice cream only to discover we have no freezer! Moved it to our balcony instead” — Jan 2 “lost [...]
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2009: An online retrospective
January 1st, 2010 · Comments
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Benchmarking DNS servers
October 13th, 2009 · Comments
I’ll admit, I haven’t been very active blogging lately. It’s not because too little is going on, it’s because too much is going on. One of the projects I’ve been most excited about recently is my 20% project at work: namebench: a DNS benchmarking tool. What is DNS, and why would I benchmark it? You [...]
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Amazing Austria
August 18th, 2009 · Comments
One strange observation that Dallas and I had during this trip was how many touring bicycles we saw. This scene was repeated all over Austria, Germany, and the Czech republic, even in the most remote fields. We resolved that when we got back into Belgium, that we would do more cycling. Here was one scene [...]
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Four Magyar Days
August 17th, 2009 · Comments
Hungary is interesting in that the language spoken (Hungarian, or Magyar as the locals call it) is unlike any other language in Europe. It’s most closely related to languages spoken thousands of years ago in Siberia, which makes it slightly similar to Finnish. The fact that the language is so different makes it challenging to [...]
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