[OFB Cafe] Year End Thoughts and Discoveries

[Donald Spoon]

First of all, Happy New Year to all on the list!  I know that some have 
already had their celebrations, but I will lift a Root Beer in a toast 
to you at midnight anyway!

I made a discovery today!  That goes to prove that you can always learn 
something new...  It is probably old knowledge to most of you on this 
list, but your "punishment" for not telling me about it sooner is to sit 
through my impressions!  It is something called CDN or Content Delivery 
Networks.  It all started with one of the blogs I read that is run by 3 
lawyers up in Minnesota.  They are fine exemplars of the intelligent but 
technically unsophisticated people that seem to gather our attention.  
Here is a link to their story and how they became aware of CDNs:

 http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/12/022435.php

This is really neat tech, and it looks like their web hosts are pretty 
sharp!  What an amazing defense against the DOS attacks while improving 
content delivery to the end user.  I looked at the Wikipedia entry for 
CDNs and noticed that BitTorrent is a P2P version of the CDN concepts.   
For the record, I just used BitTorrent for the first time last week...

Don't forget to eat some Ham Hocks, Black-eyed Peas, and Collard Greens 
tomorrow!  That will insure "good luck:" in the new year.

Cheers,
-Don Spoon-