What is a Dual-WAN Router?

Imagine that water pipes were a new thing, and therefore not reliable. They work for most people most of the time, but sometimes they go down, and then if you want to take a bath or wash the dishes or cook a meal, no luck.
Then you learn that there are two types of water pipes, […]

Rev Chickens-Come-Home-To-Roost

We wasted another week on Rev Wright, hopefully the last one. No it didn’t drag Obama down, though the right wing is spinning their wish that it would. If only. Keep dreaming.
Yes, Obama is a gifted politician, and that’s why we like him. We need political leadership, we’ve done without it for the last four […]

Microblogging should be decentralized

Scott Hanselman asks the question that should be on all our minds, as we come to depend more and more on Twitter. We need to do something about our over-reliance on a centralized system run by a for-profit company.
Read his whole post and think about what you can do.
One thing right off the bat — […]

A new web service for Twitter clients

Yesterday I wrote about a way to prepare to decentralize Twitter, in the event of a lengthy outage. The goal is to create no extra work or complexity for users. I think this is the responsible way for developers to help because it’s 1. Not a good idea to build a centralized system around a […]