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Chaos Lever Podcast

A tech podcast tracking emerging trends in IT and why they're all terrible.

Recent Episodes

Nov. 4, 2024

The Government Hates C++, DNA Storage Advances, Microsoft’s Recall Fumble | Tech News of the Week

In this week’s *Chaos Lever Tech News*, we’re diving into groundbreaking—and sometimes just plain weird—developments in the tech world. Gene Therapy + Data Storage : Remember the days of 3.5" floppy disks with 1.44MB capacit…
Oct. 31, 2024

40 Years of Excelleration

Get ready for a *spooktacular* look at one of the least spooky (but incredibly powerful) tools ever made: Microsoft Excel. It's Excel’s 40th anniversary, so we're diving into its history, quirks, and how this humble spreadsh…
Oct. 29, 2024

Our Long National Nightmare is Over. Internet Archive is Back | Tech News of the Week

This week, we dive into the Internet Archive's recovery after cyberattacks compromised user data and targeted public knowledge institutions. IBM faces a tough quarter, with mainframe sales lagging but Red Hat growth keeping …
Oct. 24, 2024

Cyber Insurance: Folies à Deux

In this episode, we dive deep into the wild world of cyber insurance and the massive changes that have unfolded between 2020 and 2023. Remember when we said cyber risks would increase and insurance applications would get tou…
Oct. 21, 2024

Amazon is Going Nuclear?! | Tech News of the Week

This week, we're diving into the surprising moves by some tech giants in the world of nuclear energy! Amazon has invested in small modular reactors (SMRs) to help power their datacenters, joining the likes of Google and Micr…
Oct. 17, 2024

The Rise and Fall of Blogging: From BBS to WordPress and Beyond

In this episode of Chaos Lever , we take a trip down memory lane to explore the history of blogging—starting with the humble beginnings of bulletin board systems (BBS) and online forums, and moving through the rise of blogs …

Recent Blog Posts

Intro To Quantum 101, part 1: Light is Crazy

2025 Will Be The United Nations Year Of Quantum Science and Technology So that’s pretty cool. They decided on 2025 because 2025 marks the officially unofficial 100th year since quantum mechanics became a real, formalized, and accepted……

WINS Isn't DNS

Last week I spent entirely too much time talking about DNS, so this week as a fresh change of pace, I’ll be talking about… DNS. You’re welcome. Realistically, you should probably go back and listen to that episode or read the blog…

It's Always DNS

There are few technologies as foundational to the modern internet as DNS. Actually, let me revise that. There are few technologies as foundational to networking as DNS. It forms the foundation for name resolution on basically every network big and s…

About the Hosts

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Chris Hayner

Angry Old Man

Our story starts with a young Chris growing up in the agrarian community of Central New Jersey. Son of an eccentric sheep herder, Chris’ early life was that of toil and misery. When he wasn’t pressing cheese for his father’s failing upscale Fromage emporium, he languished on a meager diet of Dinty Moore and boiled socks. His teenage years introduced new wrinkles in an already beleaguered existence with the arrival of an Atari 2600. While at first it seemed a blessed distraction from milking ornery sheep, Chris fell victim to an obsession with achieving the perfect Pitfall game. Hours spent in the grips of Indiana Jones-esque adventure warped poor Chris’ mind and brought him to the maw of madness. It was at that moment he met our hero, Ned Bellavance, who shepherded him along a path of freedom out of his feverish, vine-filled hellscape. To this day Chris is haunted by visions of alligator jaws snapping shut, but with the help of Ned, he freed himself from the confines of Atari obsession to become a somewhat productive member of society. You can find Chris at coin operated laundromats, lecturing ironing boards for being itinerant. And as the cohost on the Chaos Lever podcast.

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Ned Bellavance

Curious Human

Ned is an industry veteran with piercing blue eyes, an indomitable spirit, and the thick hair of someone half his age. He is the founder and sole employee of the ludicrously successful Ned in the Cloud LLC, which has rocked the tech world with its meteoric rise in power and prestige. You can find Ned and his company at the most lavish and exclusive tech events, or at least in theory you could, since you wouldn’t actually be allowed into such hallowed circles. When Ned isn’t sailing on his 500 ft. yacht with Sir Richard Branson or volunteering at a local youth steeplechase charity, you can find him doing charity work of another kind, cohosting the Chaos Lever podcast with Chris Hayner. Really, he’s doing Chris a huge favor by even showing up. You should feel grateful Chris. Oaths of fealty, acts of contrition, and tokens of appreciation may be sent via carrier pigeon to his palatial estate on the Isle of Man.