About

Braindisconnect started out as an AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) screen name in the early 2000s. At the time I was a network engineer at MCI and we were heavy users of AIM — finding a unique name that didn't have a mile-long suffix of numbers was tough. We covered so many protocols and edge cases in that role that I kept notes on the cube wall and later in a plain text file.

A few years later, during a domain-registration special, I picked up braindisconnect.com, .net, and .org. For a long time the domain was really just an email address.

Eventually I stood up a web server to host the notes, because I kept losing them whenever a PC got replaced or a notebook got shuffled into a drawer. The focus is on topics that come up rarely — the kind of thing where you'd otherwise have to re-read a pile of documentation and forum threads to reproduce whatever it was you did last time.

Most of what's on the wiki here are my own personal notes. A handful came from sites that no longer exist. They used to be hidden, but I opened them up in case they happen to be useful to someone else.

If something here helped — or, more usefully, if something here is wrong — you can reach out through the contact form.