Splintering of data

I've more or less realized that as I get older, my memory retention is getting worse. I have always had a pretty good memory, but it's oddball things that I remember, like quotes from Ghostbusters or my friends phone numbers from grade school.
I've never been great at taking notes and so, to that end, I've decided to work on doing just that.
I have taken one of the many oddball domain names that I own, in this case coprophage.net and started documenting my technical (both work and non-work) related stuff there. I plan to use this site as more of a personal blog and coprophage.net as my personal tech-diary kinda thing.  I've already put a few posts up there detailing some Juniper SRX firewall/IDP things I've run into and have also added a Cisco AAA post.  Mostly I just want to detail some of the things that are odd, have poor documentation, are hard to find answers to or things that I just want to be able to reference later.  So, if you like geeky, network related cisco, juniper, foundry, and security related text, head on over.  Hopefully it won't fizzle out and I can keep it updated.
Don't expect it to be correct all of the time, or even relevant to the current techno-babble-buzzword-of-the-day. It's mostly for me, but if you find it useful, thats great too.

Oh, and yes, coprophage is the consumption of feces.  Why do I own this domain?  Why not, I ask you. Why not.

Movies galore....

I'm a huge fan of movies and film.  I have a minor in film studies from Illinois State University and did (sometimes still do) a bit of video art.  I've embraced the technology at this point and use Netflix quite a bit and watch movies as I get time.

I have a fairly extensive DVD (and now Blue Ray) collection as well.
Here you can find the top few movies off of my Netflix queue.

There are going to be some kids movies on there now as well =)

So far, so good.

I'm liking the move back to blogger so far. I do miss some of the flexibility that wordpress gave me, but overall I'm willing to trade that for not running a database server anymore.  Blogger is available over IPv6 using the google over any v6 resolvers, which is very cool, and the VPS I moved to at ARP networks to host DNS and basic HTTP is also fully v6 native.
I'm also really, really liking the move to flickr for my photo hosting.  I paid for a pro account and have been very pleased with the integration and wealth of tools and apps.
I have to say, though, that the entire reason that this move was spawned (other than the fact that I've been thinking about it for a while) is that I installed an app called PicPush on my Android Nexus One .
This app allows me to automatically publish all images taken with my android device with 0 user intervention (and allows for a timer to to so; I have mine set to 15 minutes).
Here you can find all of the images in my "Mobile" flickr set.  There are things in there from as far back as my Treo 600, but most of the stuff is relatively new and always updating as I snap images.

"The Cloud"

Outside of networking (and even within networking to a certain extent), the buzzword of the day is "The cloud".  All of your data will be in "the cloud".  Think Skynet.  Cloud computing is how much of our data is handled today.  
What is that, you ask?  
"Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computersand other devices on demand, like the electricity grid."  --According to wikipedia.  
Why is this even remotely interesting?  Well, as of now, much of what I do has been moved into "the cloud". My contacts are stored within google's massive cloud, as are my emails, calendar, and now this blog text.  
I have an Android based phone now, even the config that my phone is built from is in the cloud.  I've moved my photos into flickr.  My mail is a Google Apps domain.  Why would I do such a thing, you ask?  Because it's REALLY freakin' convenient.  I don't have to run a server anymore.  I don't need to keep up spamassassin signatures or maintain any postgres or mysql databases.  
Its also scary.  All of my data is not under my control anymore.  Once it hits the internet, it's never possible to know for sure it's gone should I want it removed.  This is a frightening thing when one considers the privacy ramifications.  I've been slowly moving to this model over the last 5 or 6 years.  I was an early beta tester for the google apps and moved my mail around 2005.  Other data has been slowly migrating since then.  

Security is not convenient, and convenient is not often secure.  Lets hope our cloud overlords take pity on us when they take over the world.  

Blog update via SMS message. Crazy.

Another blogging move

My Blogging has come full circle.  I had originally investigated CMS/WYSIWYG type blogging years ago using blogger.  After about a year I moved it to my own self hosted service using newsbruiser, then to movable type, and finally to a self hosted wordpress instance.
Well, I'm moving all of my web hosting away from my colocated server and to other locations.  For my own stuff, I've move all of it back to blogger using a custom domain.
So far, so good.  All data imported, custom redirects (via apache on my ArpNetworks VPS) all working.  Custom domains up and running.  Google has really done a good job with the ghs adoption into blogger.
Now I just need to get my twitter feed integrated and images moved in and I should be good to go.
Hopefully it can stay here for years to come.  

Twitter posts by Nick Buraglio for the week of 2010-08-15

• I'd forgotten how awful it was working on some of the 3com network hardware. I can't believe folks ever bought this stuff. #


• I think the superstack menu system may be worse to me than openroute and extreme cli. #


• Just pulled the trigger on upgrading from #pfSense 2.0 beta1 to 2.0 beta4 #


• Upgrade to #pfSense BETA4 successful. Adding my ghetto IPv6 hack back in. #


• @engineerz probably after 2.0. in reply to engineerz #


• Streaming. "A boy and his dog" from @Netflix. Love this flick. #


• SMS Trojan Making its Rounds on Android http://is.gd/ebT13 #


• Toshiba Wipe deletes your encrypted data so you don't have to http://is.gd/ebTi8 #


• Blah #


• @ancker010 SSDD in reply to ancker010 #


• @Vap0rz nice in reply to Vap0rz #


• Bike Poster WIN http://is.gd/ecbe6 #


• SERENITY NOW! #


• Wishing I was at the scinet meeting this week.... #


• Redsn0w jailbreak works with iOS 4.0.2... on your iPhone 3G http://is.gd/ef6Vf #


• Cisco IOS Software TCP Denial of Service Vulnerability http://is.gd/ef7d1 #


• Android Voice Actions tout hands-off texting, e-mail http://is.gd/ef7GM #


• Just purchased my first #android app ever. #picpush was too good to pass up. @declanshanaghy #


• @sdlieb I like both but I'm pretty happy with android at the moment. in reply to sdlieb #


• Linked my Flickr acct with the blog. Now at least it'll get some updates that !=twitter feeds. #


• Also linked Flickr, Shutterfly and Picasa web albums with all images taken w/mobile phone, automatically, using #picpush for #android. #


• @declanshanaghy Great app. Now if only there were anything close to it for my wife's iPhone 4...... in reply to declanshanaghy #

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