Thoughts about Software, Networking, and Life
Connecting ResNexus and TripAdvisor We wanted our room availability to show up in TripAdvisor and other online services. There are two basic steps, where you tell Reservation Nexus and TripAdvisor …
Linking Reservation Nexus and TripAdvisor Read MoreI saw an article fretting about taxpayer-funded broadband projects in Texas Monitor. It cites a “study” by the Taxpayer Protection Alliance Foundation that purports to show a wide swath of …
Taxpayer-Funded Networks – all that bad? Read MoreI’ll be speaking next month at the WordPress Meetup about the using Docker to host a development WP server on your laptop. Here’s the writeup: Docker for WordPress Docker enables …
WordPress Meetup in Londonderry Read MoreI went to a terrific talk at the Lyme Library earlier this week. Randall Mikkelsen from Reuters spoke on the topic, “Fake News: What’s the Real Story?”. In it, he …
Fake News News Read MoreSo you’ve just learned something cool on a new subject, and you want to let the world know about your discovery. You go to the project’s wiki, and jot it …
How to Write Wiki Pages So People Will Read Them Read MoreI just sent an email to the reporter from NewsPressNow who posted a typical net neutrality story. A flaw in this kind of reporting is the tacit acceptance of an …
Typical Net Neutrality coverage – accepting untruths from ISPs Read MoreUpdate – November 2017: Added descriptions for the other tools I had investigated. Update – October 2018: Although it’s not based on Netflow, Al Caughy’s YAMon provides a good view …
Netflow Collectors for Home Networks Read MoreThe Battle for the Net site https://www.battleforthenet.com/ no longer seems to have the telephone form(!) But… Boing Boing does. Go to https://boingboing.net/. You’ll see a popup window with a place …
Net Neutrality – Contacting the Congress (update) Read MoreAlthough I usually agree with him, one of my favorite bloggers, Dave Winer, recently said this: One of the ideas circulating is that your ISP has a monopoly, owns the …
Monopoly ISPs are a Fallacy? Read MoreHat tip to Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna on Twitter) for this… A Portugal ISP (with no net neutrality constraints) appears to be charging 4.99€ (about US$5.86) per month for access to …
End of the Internet? Help us prevent it! Read More