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What's A Vacation?

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Brad Feld wrote an excellent post, What's A Vacation?

He lists 5 strategies that one can use to isolate himself/herself from the world to get some piece of mind. I also found myself more and more often in this state when I feel there's too much going on and I have to focus. When this happens I set Piding (ICQ, Google Chat, MSN), Skype and Evolution to offline mode, shut down my cellphone and just focus on the task ahead. It works pretty effectively.

I plan to schedule more activities (that most normal people do) on a regular basis to cut myself from the cyberspace and socialize more often. I've recently had a PRK eye surgery which limits me in some activites for a while, but there's still lots of things to do.

Fossil of the Day

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Fossil of the Day

Daniel Goleman: Why aren’t we all Good Samaritans?

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Articles on Productivity

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

The Easiest to Remember DNS and HTTP server IPs

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

My sister's box, Slimmy had some nasty domain name resolution problems in the past days, weeks. I won't go into the usual problem discovery and recovery procedure, I'd rather give you the easiest to remember name server and web server IP addresses to solve such problems virtually effortlessly.

  • The easiest to remember DNS server IP is 4.2.2.2
  • The easiest to remember HTTP server IP is 8.9.9.9

I got the above DNS IP by asking on #apache about such an IP and I got the HTTP IP by doing an `nmap -p 80 1-9.1-9.1-9.1-9`. The above IPs can change in the future, of course, but they can be pretty useful in tracking DNS errors as long as they are valid.