Monday, February 27, 2006

"Rabbit necklace"



Via the NYtimes

Thinking about the size of the internet

Von: netbehaviour-bounces@netbehaviour.org [mailto:netbehaviour-bounces@netbehaviour.org] Im Auftrag von Jason Nelson
Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Februar 2006 13:13
An: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
Betreff: [NetBehaviour] size of the internet

I've done some ciphering and estimate the size of the internet.

If each gigabyte weighs one tenth a gram and is gaseous and blue, and the container for the gas is shaped like a giant corn cob plate, then the internet is about two coffee tables and a late spring snow storm on the plains sized.

- Jason Nelson from [NetBehaviour] size of the internet





From the Caida.org site:

The graph reflects 926,201 IP addresses and 2,000,796 IP links (immediately adjacent addresses in a traceroute-like path) of topology data gathered from 22 monitors probing approximately 865,000 destinations spread across 77,678 (50% of the total) globally routable network prefixes.

Graphing dimensions of peering richness and geographic information reveals the highly "core-centric" nature of certain ASes based in North America. While ISPs in Europe and Asia have many peering relationships with ISPs in the U.S. there are fewer links directly between ISPs in Asia and Europe. Both technical (cabling and router placement and management) as well as policy (e.g. business cost models and geopolitical considerations) factors contribute to peering arrangements represented in this graph.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

New year, new EVERYTHING

It's obviously been a very long time since I last posted. It has been since October. I have been mia from here and am trying to get myself together to figure out what kinds of things I am going to post about. Having a specific focus for the blog would be the obvious choice, but I am just going to use this as a scratch pad.

I hope to incubate some ideas, post something everyday and just get my ideas generated.

Thank god I was able to escape my old job, because that was extremely draining and left me no energy to pursue anything. It really drained me and killed my brain. I was on the verge of LOSING it, and finally I was able to escape and get into something else. Retail disguised as an "innovative" environment is a joke. I felt like a factory worker, same outfit day in and day out, repeating the same thing over and over like a trade show video kiosk. I kept my stuff in a timed locker which blinked and beeped. I had to punch in and punch out, everything constantly recorded, always with someone. As if New York weren't claustrophobic enough. I got out just in time before I became completely hateful. Its extremely scary how a workplace can distort your perceptions of yourself and others because of the constrained environment.

My current job enables me to work at home doing web administration and event planning, so its pretty much the perfect thing for me right now. The ability for me to be connected to my work will allow me to come up with side projects.