Thinking In Digital

Speaking at Defcon 19

admin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:16:31 +0000

So this post is sort of overdue. A while back I submitted a paper to the DEFCON 19 computer security conference in response to their annual call for papers. They were looking for papers on the subject of how to deal with situations like the Egyptian uprising that started in January 2011. Basically the Egyptian [...]

My First Ham Radio Satellite Contact

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:41:19 +0000

Ever since I earned my first Ham Radio License back in 2003, I’ve wanted to try contacting one of the many Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ham radio satellites orbiting the earth. Well, today was my first success and it was freaking COOL! Basically these satellites orbit in a geosynchronous, as opposed to geostationary, orbit which [...]

Music Appreciation With David Byrne

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:46:24 +0000

The very first class on my first day of college was music appreciation. Granted, it was a required class and I took it during my first semester (and first thing in the morning) because it was an easy class. There was arguably not a lot of mental “heavy lifting” to be done there. I mean, [...]

Why I will Never Use Lenovo Computers Again

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:28:27 +0000

I usually don’t make posts like this unless I’m thoroughly disgusted with the company in question and have exhausted all possible remedies to resolve the situation. So, this situation started out when one of my long-time clients decided that they wanted to upgrade all the computers in their office for two reasons; first, they had [...]

Most Women I Know Don’t Like To Look Stupid

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:46:00 +0000

I know this is old news by now but I just couldn’t resist. Don’t get me wrong. The glasses in the picture, all things being equal, ARE actually stylish but given recent past history? Not so much. It amazes me that this eye-wear store would advertise these glasses in the first place. I know that [...]

A Fun Diversion

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:40:56 +0000

Apparently this is one of those internet blog meme’s going around but it is kind of cool. I saw it on a blog called The World Of Wealth. So here you go: 4 Things I’m Passionate About Executing a good money making scheme Sailing My Family Writing Code (don’t laugh) 4 Words or Phrases I [...]

Fiber Baby!

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:17:50 +0000

So today I was out walking the dogs Ciarra the Husky and Her Majesty Greta the Schnauzer. For a few weeks, along the route, I noticed that some utility company had poured a small concrete pad and FPL had installed a meter on the pad. Sticking up out of the pad were two large plastic [...]

Why eBay Is Like Sausage

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:52:29 +0000

The other day I purchased a very non-standard video card on eBay. Interestingly enough the seller was in the next town over from mine so I decided to save the $12 shipping fee and go pick it up myself. Suffice it to say, I’m never doing that again! So, I spoke with the seller guy [...]

Stupid Rednecks

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:03:15 +0000

So, the other day I was driving through a decidedly redneck part of town more officially named West Melbourne when I came across the marquee of a store called “Ammo Attic.” Now, the name conjures up all kinds of nightmares set to banjo music but then again it’s a hunting and fishing store situated in [...]

New Blogging Platform

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:15:34 +0000

So, if you’ve been here before things may look a little different since today, I merged all the content from two separate (but related) Blogger blogs into one WordPress blog. <sarcasm>Now THAT was a whole lot of fun.</sarcasm> I did this for the following reasons: Blogger’s tagline is “Push button publishing” which is fine for [...]