No-touch Faucet

Flying is amazing

No matter how many times I fly, I marvel at living in an age when I can have morning coffee in LA, and follow it up with a casual dinner in DC. Does it mean life is “better”… maybe… but it sure is amazing! Of course, human nature being what it is, as I write […]

Vaccine history

For those who enjoy learning about medical history, BBC’s program around the Polio Vaccine is quite educational and up lifting.

Spectre and Meltdown

All my systems are patched up for Spectre and Meltdown. The performance impact isn’t noticeable on my laptop and main desktop as in general they’re lightly used. However, on one of my Win 10 development systems were I have quite a few Docker containers running, the hit was sizable! All my CPUs are pre-Haswell (2015), […]