Every so often I’m reminded of how tricky Wikipedia is — especially for current events. It’s not magically unbiased. Inventing authoritative sources of truth with well timed edits for real world persuasive power is the oldest working trick in the book.

Words and identifiers are at most substitutes for intangibles that cannot be expressed. The power of naming matters more than the name itself.

Am I cool now? :)

“The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.”

Remember when it was thought that all combustible materials consist of two parts? Phlogiston and dephlogiston (calx). Goodness, someone today just made me remember the most random thing from chemistry history (from when I was in school).

The ‘best current practice’ category of rfcs beats any blog post you can read for a topic. For example, I recently got tired of my domain host’s dns flakiness and did my own thing.

I couldn’t fully remember how soa serial numbers worked for secondaries and rfc 2182 showed me the money real fast. The alternative is sludging through multiple serps of ad spam.