Howard Dean is calling it quits. I loved when he said, “I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.” I think the DLC is pushing the Democrats too far to the right. Ill miss him. I also think Kerry is stiff and uncharismatic. Right now, I’m voting for Edwards on March 2.

Glen’s first law of politics: Charisma wins.

Today my wife and I went to the ultrasound. Its a man-child! That will make 3 boys. Do I have ANY x chromosomes???

Firewalls: Cisco Pix 501
I bought this device because so many people said how great it is. I have to say, I HATE this thing. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) is horrible. It doesn’t work right at all. The command line is cryptic. It seems that either you know Cisco’s arcane command line language or you are up the creek. I’m a GUI person and I need to see what I am doing in an elegant interface.

From what I understand from the Cisco people themselves is that their GUI team (PDM) is having an internal war with the command line team. Also the IOS people are fighting with the PIX people. It seems that this is a big internal mess with no clear leadership.

You’d think that Cisco could put some resources into an elegant GUI. For these reasons, I think its a rotten stock and put their ability to capture a good portion of the low end market at a C-.

Is John Kerry really Lurch from the Addams family?
Look for yourself

UPDATE: I took it down.  It was mean. :(  Maybe I should put it back up.

This is my first blog. At first I tried to set this thing up with SFTP which is a secure form of FTP. I could not get it to work. I tried the filezilla SFTP server. I dont want to use straight FTP because its inherently insecure. I wish Microsoft would just create an encrypted FTP option. So I ended up with http://glenlipka.blogspot.com . Oh well, cant win them all. I have experimented with WebDav, FTP, SFTP, and they are all a pain in the ass.

As an introduction, I will use this space for technical issues, politics, ideas, journal and general topics. Its my first blog so dont expect too much. Thanks.