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Archive for May, 2004
Complete control
You ever notice that every single security update Microsoft releases contains the phrase “allow an attacker to gain complete control of your system”? There’s never a “little” security hole. There’s never a partial vulnerability.
Friday, May 28th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Celebrity Mix
Having made more than a few mixed tapes in my day, I found this pretty funny.
Thursday, May 27th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>
My Senator is lamer than your Senator
I’ve never been a regular correspondent with my representatives in government, but I’ve always let them know how I feel on things from time to time over the years. In that time, I’ve generally gotten a response (albeit delayed) from the representative’s staff via snail mail. This, in of of itself is pretty [...]
Tuesday, May 25th, 2004. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>
The Mac is a Hard Mistress
At The Fishbowl [via steve]:
Microsoft, ladies and gentleman, is a cheap whore….[snip]…Apple is a lover
Tuesday, May 25th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Playground
While it still needs a roof and a swing set, the playground I’ve been building for the boys is now playable. They love it!
Tuesday, May 25th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | 1 Comment »>
crossword
i used to be very fond of crosswords, but for some reason I pretty much stopped doing them. to kill time at the airport, I just got the paper to do the crossword. what a disapointment. I just waltzed right through it. it wasn’t a nyt puzzle. way to easy. [...]
Monday, May 24th, 2004. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>
that’s not funny
i am waiting on a plane at the houston airport. the intercom just came on and warned, “jokes about security may result in your arrest.” glad they warned me.
Monday, May 24th, 2004. Posted in Humor | No Comments »>
Home from San Anton
I spent the last few days in San Antonio for work, doing a system install and spending some time with each of our warehouse locations there. I don’t much like to travel, especially for business, but it wasn’t so bad. The highlight of the trip was staying Wednesday night with Sean and his [...]
Thursday, May 20th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends, Work | No Comments »>
note to self
passwords with a lot of punctuation are not very friendly to qwerty keyboards on handspring treos
Tuesday, May 18th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Berg conspiracy
Interesting stuff. Don’t really know what to make of it, but I must admit I’m generally a sucker for a conspiracy theory.
Monday, May 17th, 2004. Posted in Politics | 1 Comment »>
Frontier to go open source
As Seth noted, Frontier is being split off from Userland and released open source. I have a lot of history with Frontier, and this site runs in Conversant, which runs on top of Frontier — so it’s an interesting development to me.
I still haven’t seen mention of the licensing terms, and it’s not clear [...]
Monday, May 17th, 2004. Posted in Conversant, Technology | No Comments »>
Programmers do marketspeak
PulpFiction is a news aggregator for the Mac. They’ve written up a feature list for it that only a programmer could love. What a perfect example of a programmer getting lost in their work and not really coming up for air to think about their market.
Not to say that it isn’t a fine [...]
Monday, May 17th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Panda golf
A good way to kill time.
Friday, May 14th, 2004. Posted in Misc | No Comments »>
Conversant praise
Brian Carnell has praised Conversant before, but he wrote another nice piece today. Always good to hear, since there’s still a good bit of my code running in Conversant’s veins.
Friday, May 14th, 2004. Posted in Conversant | No Comments »>
Free coffee
Seth got a deal from his local caffeine source. Or, maybe they got a deal. Guess it depends on how much coffee he drinks. I think he could drive a harder bargain though. My old system admin had free coffee for life from Starbucks just for getting their PC running once.
Friday, May 14th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | 1 Comment »> « Previous Entries
