I suppose it is time to write about why I quit "the industry". It's been a bit more than half a year, any immediate reactions I might have had have faded with more permanent thoughts remaining.

"The industry" is perhaps best explained as working with computers in environments where computers …

This is a brief check in to indicate that I (and this blog) am still alive.

There's a joke in my family that I'm responsible for inventing the internet. This is obviously not true, but my involvement with various pre-Web protocols, the emergence of the Web, and transitioning a town's …

There's a thread on the openstack-discuss mailing list, started in September and then continuing in October, about limiting planned scope for Nova in the Ussuri cycle so that stakeholders' expectations are properly managed. Although Nova gets a vast amount done per cycle there is always some stuff left undone and …

Let's call this placement update 19-∞, as this will be my last one. It's been my pleasure to provide this service for nearly three years. I hope it has been as useful to others as it has been for me. The goal all along was to provide some stigmergic structures …