October 28, 2020
An interesting question on Quora came up, and I thought I’d try my hand at answering: How do I stop myself from impulsively oversharing deep and personal sad stuff about myself to people who barely know me? Why do I do this? So, putting on my “armchair psychiatrist” hat, I thought I’d write a response. It’s a very straightforward question that…
September 10, 2020
A Quora question asks about how context affects communication.
August 20, 2020
The new Synology DS1520+ is the direct successor to the DS1019+, and is the largest member of the 20-series Plus lineup.
August 10, 2020
A Quora question that seems to reflect some current trends, bred into children in schools nowadays.
June 27, 2020
Companies like Hertz have been hit hard due to the pandemic. Here’s one crazy idea on how they can pivot their business model
June 22, 2020
After a bit of a hiatus, we’re back with Storage Short Take #29. Some company updates, some misinformation about NVMe-oF, a whole lot of Synology security updates, and a mysterious visit from the FBI to a friend of mine.
June 18, 2020
A press release from synology, along with my comments
June 12, 2020
A question from Quora about how SAN performance differs between Fibre Channel and iSCSI
June 1, 2020
May 22, 2020
I have an unusual name. I like my name, but I admit that it’s unusual. I often get people that I don’t know me try to fudge by using my middle name – and often get it wrong. While my middle name is Michel, I can understand why people (non-francophones, obviously) will call it “Michael.” But I don’t go by my middle…