This evening (Monday, September 26, 2022) at 7:14pm EDT, the NASA DART spacecraft will intentionally crash into an asteroid named Dimorphos – hoping to change it’s course, thus saving the Earth from destruction! Ok, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration. You see, Dimorphos is not actually on course to hit the Earth, and even if it… Continue Reading
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Easy or Scalable? Three Generations of Metaswitch Translations Logic
I hate gardening. It’s hard physical work, I’m not very good at it, and I don’t really care about plants or flowers – so there’s not really much reward for all the labor. However, when we lived in Cleveland, my wife allocated part of the front yard for tomato plants – and I was amazed… Continue Reading
A Gang of Driverless Cars Blocks Traffic
I recently came across this post on Reddit, where someone had come across a group of about a dozen driverless cars all stopped in the middle of the same city block, effectively preventing any traffic from using that street. Obviously, any time a group of artificially intelligent beings decide to gather together in one place,… Continue Reading
The End of the World is Just the Beginning
2019 was the best year in human history. It’s all downhill from here. That’s the claim made in a fascinating book I’m reading, called The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan. The book is long and complex, but I will recklessly attempt to summarize the ideas from the book in… Continue Reading
Why maintenance windows are important – as shown by a very wet plumber
I recently came across this video on Youtube which shows a plumber try to replace a water pipe in an apartment without turning off the water. The video lasts 14 minutes. That’s 14 minutes of high-pressure hot water spraying everywhere. The plumber ends up drenched, probably with some minor burns, and the apartment (and the… Continue Reading
Cyclomatic Complexity for voice networks
Who here knows what McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity is? Anyone? <silence> It’s a term from computer science that defines the complexity of a computer program. I have a degree in computer science (kinda*), and I’ve never heard of this term – so don’t feel bad if you are not familiar with it. At Award Consulting we… Continue Reading