For some reason two CDNs, BitGravity and Castfire, are being blocked on campus. You might think firewall, but the problem even seems to appear outside the firewall.

Posted April 7, 2009 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: BitGravity, Castfire, CDN, firewall, problem. Be the first one.

Nobody’s saying what caused it, but things didn’t go as planned at the MGM Grand Sunday night. We were told our room wasn’t ready when we tried to check in a little before midnight, so we ambled over to the cafe for a midnight breakfast on the house. Then at 3 AM, when our rooms [...]

Posted December 26, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Travel. Tags: best laid plans, customer service, hotel, las vegas, las vegas nv, mgm grand. belagio, nevada, plan. plans. voucher, problem, problem resolution, the best laid plans, there was no room at the inn. One Comment.

Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel at Lafkon bring us this wonderfully engaging animated story of Trusted Computing. There’s lots more to the story at AgainstTCPA.com, and I need to thank David Rothman at TeleRead for alerting me to both the video and the site.
I haven’t had much to say about TCPA, but I think of [...]

Posted September 13, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: against tcpa, againsttcpa, animated story, anti tcpa, antitcpa, lafkon, problem, problems, problems with tcpa, risk, risks, risks of tcpa, tc video, tcpa, trusted computing, video. 4 Comments.