sushi appreciation page

Brief summary here… But I often get people inviting me to “the best sushi they’ve ever had” – and it usually isn’t, by far.

Restaurants

The best I’ve been to in the US is Sushi Sasabune in LA – and it’s pretty affordable as well! There are some places in NY that get a lot of things right, but they (to me) either aren’t as good as Sasabune or are about as good and substantially more expensive. Sasabune in Oahu is just about as good as well. Ichigo is almost as good in the LA area and a bit cheaper.

In the Philadelphia area, the best is actually Sagami – also quite affordable. Morimoto in Philadelphia proper is quite good (and has better cooked food than Sagami) but is way too expensive and is no better than Sagmi for sushi.

Just linking to a copy of the Boardwatch article entitled “DNS Servers and Provider-Independent Address Space” that was published in July 1998 about running DNS servers and getting provider-independent IP space.

The complete list of articles that I wrote for Boardwatch are linked to in the sidebar on this site…

Just linking to a copy of the Boardwatch article entitled “Web Proxy Caches and Sattelite-Based Bandwidth Augmentation” that was published in April 1998 as part of an ongoing series of tech articles for ISPs.

I also went into some funky routing stuff that I did with Andrew Khoo as my primary partner in crime, using satellite bandwidth to augment terrestrial E1s to bandwdith-staved areas like, at the time, .oz.

The complete list of articles that I wrote for Boardwatch are linked to in the sidebar on this site…

Just linking to a copy of the Boardwatch article entitled “CONFIGURING A CISCO ROUTER, PART 1: BACKGROUND” that was published in December 1997 as part of an ongoing series of tech articles for ISPs.

The complete list of articles that I wrote for Boardwatch are linked to in the sidebar on this site…

Just linking to a copy of the Boardwatch article entitled “Usenet news servers – the simple version” that was published in October 1997.

It’s fun… Today Usenet is growing towards 1TB/day and the typical Usenet service provider has 4PB of spool per site.

I’ve run News servers back into the Sun 3/50 and Telebit days, and I helped people configure ATT Unix PCs. I think I may have had a few groups coming in to a System 3 box back in 1996 but it may just have been UUCP for email, I can’t actually recall.

And the interesting thing about it is – Usenet has always been one of the best/easiest ways to stress hardware, software, and network infrastructure. Which makes it fun as a hobby scaling challenge.

Coming soon (as I write this intro in 2010) is an article on one of the first times I had seen a major infrastructure optimization solution – the introduction of cyclic spools to Usenet in the 1990s.

The complete list of articles that I wrote for Boardwatch are linked to in the sidebar on this site…