Benjamin W. Smith

Benjamin W. Smith

Benjamin W. Smith  //  Sysadmin by trade, Pythonista by passion. Dad to two boys and a girl. Guitarist. I like my coffee black, just like my metal.

Dec 28 / 12:31am

The tubes, the tubes!

I strive daily for high availability at my job, and seeing things like this almost makes it seem in vein: The Tubes Are Clogged

I spent an hour this morning researching what seemed like a non-issue on my side. Thankfully I was right, sadly it was because of this outage at Level3.

Big hand, long reach. Touch lots, break lots.

FEAR.

Filed under  //  fear   internet   level3  
Aug 10 / 11:07pm

Pandora Radio got my funk flowin'

I’ve recently been made aware of Pandora Radio and bow my head in shame at the fact that I had not been aware of it sooner. This is the most amazing advancement in radio, um, EVAR.

I would like to personally than Pandora Radio and the Music Genome Project for brightening my day with the likes of Infectious Grooves, Living Color, 311, Colonel Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade and many, many more funk metal groups that I can’t just get enough of.

Pandora has also opened me up to many new artists and styles that it found deeply ingrained in music I typically listen to.

Now excuse me while I continue to broaden my musical horizons.

Filed under  //  internet   music   pandora