Finding solutions to the larger issues affecting our world.

The connection isn’t actually as bad as reported by other trainees. As everyone would expect more has happened than can be communicated through this post. The first postal communication test has been received!
Will write more soon… Thandiwe says hi!
Send letters or postcards!
Brian Deyo, PCV   (or Krista Clark, PCV)
U.S. Peace Corps
P.O.Box 2797
Mbabane, H100
SWAZILAND

We’re here!  After all he wonderful Uno games, and even an in-flight cribbage game, 36 of us have landed and spent the night in the brand new Protea Transit hotel at the Jo’burg airport.  The Peace Corps seems to be a little more developed than our expectations.
Just kidding.  I just had the last hot shower I [...]

So maybe you are booting up my laptop and you saw that I put www.briandeyo.us on the startup screen.  I hope this is the case as that means my laptop has been found by someone that might care about what its future could be.  This laptop was stolen from me less than 48 hours before [...]

I would like to think I have enough time in the world to tackle all of my technology desires in my lifetime.  I can see so much potential if technology is applied well.  I also unfortunately have the burgeoning desire to be free of all the techno stress that comes with working directly in IT.  [...]

So probably everyone knows by now that Krista and I are traveling to Swaziland to volunteer with the Peace Corps as HIV and AIDS educators.  There is an incredible amount of information and discussion that I would love to have with all of you given the time.  Although I think I’m a little more nervous [...]

So after camping we came back only to realize that we have more stuff than we need and less time than we want.  Yet there is no distinct panic and rush like there was last week.  We are both fun-employed for the moment and have just enough time to get everything done.
Camping was great at [...]

Between Twitter, speech recognition, Windows Home Server, wordpress, HTML, facebook, and of all those other wonderful technologies I find myself enjoying, I simply have not enough time to do them all.
 
If I were to use 140 characters would that be enough to satisfy my urge to communicate and experience technology?
 
I guess if my [...]

So any one with two hours or more to spend on teaching their computer new tricks, need not look any further than their new Windows 7 installation.
I wrote this entire post using Microsoft speech recognition that is included with their latest OS.  What to me
took me 10 minutes to complete using speech recognition would [...]

One of the most prominent issues facing many medium to larger IT organizations is the subject of monitoring.  Monitoring has been around a long time, and has come in many forms.  Even to this day many datacenters have a schedule when someone physically walks up and down the rows to look for any blinking red [...]

As part of the FCC’s move towards broadband access for the entire country, they have provided a free tool that will allow you to get data on your current internet speeds.  Tools like this are nothing new to the internet as a whole, but this is the first time a government entity has gone out [...]