Cut the Carbon Kits

Cool! I just read in the newspaper yesterday that every public library in New Hampshire is now equipped with a "Cut the Carbon' kit, which consists of a Kill-a-Watt meter as well as some worksheets to calculate energy usage. I try to keep what is plugged into my house down to a bare minimum, but I look at this as a good opportunity to gather more data about a few items that I haven't gotten around to plugging into power strips yet.

I love libraries and the public service they provide.

I am a fan of xkcd

I continue to enjoy xkcd. Here are two of my favorites:




....and...


There is only one word for cartoons like this: brilliant!

Nexus One

This is a humble suggestion to the good folks at Google: given the name of your new phone, if and when you ever decide to put together a marketing campaign that involves any sort of audio, can you please hire Rob Zombie as a creative consultant? I'm sure he would have some ideas for a soundtrack.

ipsCA: fail

After trying to debug a boffo customer problem for around 15 minutes today, I finally figured out the root cause of the problem. The problem itself causes me to laugh a little bit, now that I know all of the details.

One of the important certificates issued and used by ipsCA (who I'd never heard of before today) expired on 29-december-2009. It's one thing for a certificate that helps secure a single website to expire ; it is another thing entirely when a CA's certificate expires.

This blog posting is where I was alerted to this problem.

This is a spectacular failure. Wow.