Moved 20 servers to new hardware this week.  Normally my workplace doesn’t get very active until snow hits.  Normally.  Anyway, going for the long sentences this week.

• Why I moved away from Microsoft ASP.NET.  I agree with everything in this.  I’m overgeneralizing, of course, but there’s a certain diminishing return in how easy you make any programming language.
• In which I revisit the pastimes of my misspent youth.  The last 2 sentences are a nerd experience I am sure we’re all had.
• The Floppy ROM.  Software via record.  If you ever wanted to be able to see a head crash as it happens on your storage medium, this is the way.  (via)
• Chart of Electromagnetic Radiation.  You’ll need to/want to zoom in.  (via)
• The Practice of Network Security Monitoring.  I’ve linked to a review of the book before.
• Paula Deen X Machine.  Baked goods and graphs, two of my favorite categories of thing.   (via I forgot, sorry)
• The new Amazon tablets are nice, but there’s no video out.  You have to use their network service.  This is what makes me leery of newer tablets and phones; as it becomes easier to use network bandwidth to replace physical connections, you become dependent on a separate company to use your own hardware.
• Vim documentation in PDF form.   Maybe print it, maybe don’t.  (via)
• Salesforce Architecture.  I like seeing how the really, really huge server setups work, but I doubt I’ll ever have to handle one; how many are there outside of Google/Amazon/a couple other companies?  (via)
• Obstacles to future proofing home automation.  At that level of hardware, you can’t assume everything’s going to talk 802.11 or have an Ethernet port.
• Tape rescues big data.  I need to set up a larger backup system at work, and it might be tape.  I hate tape, but I hate it less than the alternatives.

Your unrelated link of the week: Proper Opossum Massage.  Yes, it’s a serious video, but it shouldn’t be taken seriously.