Benson Schliesser - Latest Comments

Re: Reflection on The Underpants Gnomes’ Master Plan

craigspva2 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:09:02 -0000

Insightful read. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Others no doubt will like it like I did.

Re: Road Trip/Business Travel

NewYorkHotels — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:08:57 -0000

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Re: Cloud: Private vs Public, Internal vs External, Oh My!

freedivxmovie — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:22:29 -0000

thanks for sharing the information, great site, will revisit again.

Re: Donn Lee on Need for 100G and 1T Ethernet

talktalk1 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:46:58 -0000

nice

Re: SVVS closes at $6.66 today.

takeshi38 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:56:23 -0000

Great post.

Re: Cloud: Private vs Public, Internal vs External, Oh My!

alllenooctave — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:01:09 -0000

Nice post, thanks you
NFCU

Re: Suicide Rate at France Telecom

bensons — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:27:56 -0000

Thanks for the comment, dfb. I've updated the post to reflect more accurate numbers, and I apologize for the mistake.

Cheers,
-Benson

Re: Suicide Rate at France Telecom

dfb — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:12:42 -0000

your suicide rate for France is wrong by one zero. All sources indicate around 20/100.000/year.
FT has a suicide rate quite lower then the national average.
I do not understand how the fuss can happen....
You should get your 'quick' math right....

Re: Benson’s Sarcastic Quarterly Status Report

tgrossner — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:36:07 -0000

LOL - sounds all too familiar.

Re: Benson’s Sarcastic Quarterly Status Report

joeammond — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:08:20 -0000

Situation Normal, then. :)

Re: Donn Lee on Need for 100G and 1T Ethernet

Thomas — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:11:01 -0000

Well, I read a paper in Sigcomm 2009 by people from Microsoft, they prosposed a new data center architecture called VL-2, I think it is a good way to solve your problem :-)

Re: Suicide Rate at France Telecom

bensons — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:44:03 -0000

Every time I think about this story I get a knot in my gut thinking about the way this poor man died. Jumping into traffic is definitely not one of the ways I can imagine killing myself. And just imagine how screwed up the drivers must feel about it, what they experienced, etc.

Not that any attention should be directed away from FT in this case, but it's a shame that the government/law doesn't give any better options for suicide. Legalized medical assistance and drugs to do the job would be much better. Of course, employee rights to redress and legal recourse to avoid the situation would be best. These damned soul-crushing inhuman corporations have too much power--the balance of power in our global economy is all screwed up. *sigh*

Re: Back From Vacation

jasonhoux — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:09:06 -0000

Hum glad to read this comment and comic - going on my own week long break shortly and will keep this in mind =)

Re: Brains vs. Scripted Behavior

bensons — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:26:33 -0000

I suspect you are correct... We get what we pay for. And the market prices for residential Internet are anchored too low. This is evidenced by the "network neutrality" debate and various plans to enforce limits and/or metering of bandwidth usage. We aren't paying enough money to support the network that we want.

This is why I buy "business" Internet services for my home. I get the service that I expect, no metered bandwidth limits, and no acceptable-use restrictions on running web and email servers. (FYI, The above blog post is referring to DSL at my wife's family's vacation home.)

Re: Brains vs. Scripted Behavior

Han Tu13 — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:38:50 -0000

It's probably a reflection of the idea that despite what they say, most people only care about one factor when they purchase certain things- cost. Especially for commoditized products and services like residential DSL.

Re: It’s “Climate Change”, stupid.

Lili — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:54:41 -0000

Ok, so random skepticism isn't the right way to go...but what about just plugging your ears and singing "la la la la". Is that acceptable? Normally I'd say no, but it's how I'm handling the financial crisis.

Re: Sleep Disorder, Creativity, and Productivity

3parfarley — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:54:22 -0000

The creative process is one of the most interesting things to wrestle with or explore. Its usually extremely personal and and the work itself is fragile, which is why middle of the night works for some of us - its the only time solitude is realistic without interruptions and distractions.

The sharing part of the creative process is always risky because we tend to put too much stock in others' reactions. It can be hard to find people you can trust to share creative work with - not only do we expect others to understand the work at its stage of development, but we also seem to think they should understand something about the process as well - which is practically impossible. It takes a lot of patience, but I think the best thing is to not like the work too much and scrutinize the hell out of it and keep improving it. The ability to tell good shit from weak shit is incredibly difficult sometimes.

FWIW, I came here after seeing your comment on Cisco's blog, http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/comments/clou... I'm interested in talking to you about Savvis sometime.

Re: The Presidential Debate, Twitter, and Plodt

bensons — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:00:11 -0000

BTW, it's clear that this isn't a balanced or normalized survey; Twitter users apparently lean towards Obama. Or, at least, Twitter users that learned about this experiment (i.e. because we follow NPR News) lean towards Obama. Maybe next election there will be a website that can manage this polling more scientifically, while maintaining the sort of open participation that Twitter has enabled. That will be fun.

Re: Establishing Ecological Baselines With Paleoecology

terri schliesser — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:00:01 -0000

hmm...a blog about a bog. A bog blog. Cool!
We're very proud of Emily too. I'm especially encouraged by her zeal to "make a difference" in this world. Also I'm certain Emily would be first to report that you have been more than "a small part."
(fossils and ferns and frogs...oh my!)

Re: When it rains it pours; strange evening so far.

jra — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:58:19 -0000

At least no one was hurt, you made the flight, and most importantly: you got the data downloaded.