You may have heard. If you haven’t, then you’re about to. Which is exciting for you because not having heard is most likely what Congress was hoping for, for nefarious reasons.
Congress recently passed a bill to repeal the Federal Communication Commission’s privacy rules for Internet Service Providers (referred to as the common acronym ISPs). These rules never had the opportunity to go into effect, but they would have allowed the average consumer more control over how our ISPs use the data they collect on us.
Scripting languages and command line interfaces is an area I’ve decided to focus on in 2016. I’m currently a part of an online course on Python with Udemy by Jose Portilla that I highly recommend. I’m also diving into Powershell at work to become more familiar with remote Azure AD management. Familiarity with Powershell scripting will make me much more powerful in my domain.
Over the weekend I decided to get a little more comfortable with the command line interface with my Mac.
Something I’ve always wanted to do but have not as of yet, is to get involved in Open Source development. The biggest reason for being scared off was fear of being the new guy, or committing to a project and then being pigeonholed into something I’d find boring, such as writing documentation or quality assurance testing. Don’t get me wrong, I know this stuff is important. I’ve never tried either of these so it could be something I’d enjoy, but I really want to focus on new features instead of improving upon old code.
As most of you know, for most of my life I was very anti-Apple. The price difference between an Apple product and the rest of the competition struck me as insane. “I can get way better specs for that price!” I’d think to myself, if I wasn’t actively debating with someone.
This perception started to change when I got my first smartphone. It was a hand-me-down iPhone 3G from my father.
(The following post is from 2010. I imported my blog posts from my month long trip to Japan for posterity and to remember fondly!) Osaka Castle, Osaka Aquarium, Kobe
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I visited Osaka for a few days and stayed at my stepmom’s friend, Naomi’s house. They have two kids, Kizuna, 4, and So, 2 years old.
They are really good kids, although really noisy! It had been 3 years since I saw Naomi last.
(The following post is from 2010. I imported my blog posts from my month long trip to Japan for posterity and to remember fondly!) Imperial Palace Garden and Roppongi
Not really much to say about this trip. Went to Tokyo, saw the imperial gardens (which are huge) and took the subway to Aoyama, walked to Roppongi.
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Imperial Palace gardens. There were a lot of people just bumming around napping under the trees and such.
(The following post is from 2010. I imported my blog posts from my month long trip to Japan for posterity and to remember fondly!) Sorry it’s been a while since I last updated. I used the JR pass to go afield and didn’t have room to carry my laptop and fit enough clothes to last.
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On my trip to Hiroshima.
