November 19, 2014 archive

Testing Out Writing in Markdown

This is a top heading

This is some random text that I’m including purely for the sake of having some text here.

This is some more random text.

This should be a next level heading.

And here is some text from Bacon Ipsum:

Bacon ipsum dolor amet venison filet mignon tenderloin, short ribs jerky chuck pancetta pig pork chop. Tri-tip pastrami sausage tail, meatball shank spare ribs bacon jerky corned beef pig alcatra ball tip cow. Turkey bacon meatball brisket hamburger kielbasa. Pig chuck ground round cupim. Landjaeger tail boudin, shank pork belly ribeye biltong meatball sausage bresaola rump hamburger beef ribs pork chop. Ribeye doner capicola, shoulder rump prosciutto ground round pork loin kevin pork chop turkey pork belly shankle beef ribs corned beef. Ball tip ribeye hamburger bresaola.

Another 2nd-level heading

Brisket cow t-bone shank. Porchetta hamburger beef ribs, meatball biltong cow doner swine bacon shankle ribeye. Ground round andouille ham hock, sirloin t-bone tail rump prosciutto ham short loin spare ribs filet mignon. Short loin fatback pork chop, picanha short ribs ground round beef ham. Turducken short loin flank prosciutto salami.

And some bullets:

  • bacon

  • steak

  • turducken

Brisket tail ham hock, short loin jowl ribeye prosciutto shankle boudin landjaeger picanha. Turkey ribeye sirloin shoulder short ribs bacon sausage. Leberkas beef ribs beef shoulder fatback hamburger chuck ham sirloin pig short ribs shankle. Spare ribs bresaola ham hock, leberkas corned beef turkey picanha venison ham jerky sirloin hamburger boudin. Turkey landjaeger pork belly, ball tip hamburger rump swine.


Doner chicken pig porchetta beef ribs fatback cow jowl boudin short ribs landjaeger. Turkey drumstick brisket strip steak hamburger. Pork belly andouille pork shank venison salami tail ball tip shankle flank chuck. Drumstick prosciutto turkey pastrami ground round turducken cupim brisket leberkas kielbasa. Picanha tongue shank meatball, landjaeger turkey pork loin cow kevin tenderloin.

Nominations For Board of Public Interest Registry (Operator of .ORG) Close Nov 24 (Featured Blog)

Would you be interested in helping guide the future of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit operator of the .ORG domain? If so, the Internet Society is seeking nominations for three positions on the PIR Board of Directors. The nominations deadline is Monday, November 24, 2014. More information, qualification requirements and the submission form can be found here. More...

Nominations For Board of Public Interest Registry (operator of .ORG) Close Nov 24 (Featured Blog)

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TDYR 185 – Lessons Learned About Public Speaking With Japanese Translation

At our ION Tokyo event this week, I learned a good bit from talking with Japanese translators who then translated my talk... More info about the event: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ion/tokyo2014/

Congrats to FreeBSD On Their $1 Million Donation

FreeBSD Foundation logoWow! Many congratulations to the folks at the FreeBSD Foundation for receiving a generous $1 million donation from Jan Koum, CEO and Co-Founder of WhatsApp.

And of course many, MANY thanks to Jan Koum for giving back in this way!  As he states in his Facebook post (reprinted in that link above), the FreeBSD operating system helped him get started in his career and got him to where he is today.  This is a wonderful recognition of the power of open source operating systems – and it is wonderful that Jan Koum made this donation.

While most of the UNIX-related work in my life has been focused around Linux versus FreeBSD, I’ve used FreeBSD on a number of projects and found it quite good.  From a strategic point of view, I’m glad to see this donation to the FreeBSD Foundation to help advance its own plans.  Much of the world’s attention to “open source” matters focuses around Linux – and Linux receives the majority of corporate support and donations. But the Internet thrives on diversity and it is great to have a strong set of operating systems out there.  This donation is good for the health of the overall Internet and the open source ecosystem.

Kudos to Jan Koum for making this donation now that he has risen to such a successful point in his life where he can make a donation like this.  I hope he will inspire others who are in such situations to do so as well!