Well, I finally watched that show “Lost”, since everyone has been raving about it, and they were replaying the first two hours last night. It was OK; I kept hoping that they would run across a Sleestak and discover that the show was actually a remake of the mid-70s show “Land of the Lost”, but it hasn’t happened yet.
Don’t read the rest if you don’t want to see “spoilers”… Read More
Martha’s post tonight reminded me again that I haven’t blogged about this yet. You can see her post for more details, but the basic summary is Read More
enough with the desktop search already
So MSN “Toolbar Search” came out today, showing a few things:
1. The industry is completely f*d in the head
2. The people who get excited about this sort of thing have no clue what users want, or need
This article/rant summarizes how I’ve been feeling about this current fad (although it doesn’t really piss me off like it apparently does the author). Read More
If you went for a swim at the Y in the morning before work, and realized after you showered off and went to get dressed that you didn’t bring an extra pair of underwear, do you:
P.S. - Assume that you did not think of drying them further with the air hand dryers until after you left.
… for the “West Wing”, and it said something about an asteroid heading towards the earth. I’ve never watched the show before, but I’m pretty sure that this is a good sign that it has “jumped the shark“.
I ran across this article the other day while doing some web research. It’s an interview with Lance Spitzner, Sun Microsystems senior security architect (or at least he was at the time - a couple years ago). Here is one mind-numbingly ridiculous statement he made in his criticism of “hackers”:
There is a misconception that people think these attackers are misguided youths exploring the Internet. The reality is that the vast majority of these individuals have criminal intent. They are out to make money. We see people hacking into systems, scanning for stolen credit cards or launching attacks against other organizations and potentially getting paid for it.
This is really “interesting”, since the supposed goal of the project he’s talking about in this interview is to analyze (scientifically) the actions and methods of these types of attacks as they happen on the computers being monitored, but here he is making a huge jump to a conclusion about the motivation behind the attack. Read More
Yes to the “Yes Men”
This is a great example of an entertaining and effective way to shed light on stories like this that the media would otherwise ignore.
Article excerpt: Read More
One of my son Christian’s least favorite activities is getting his hair cut (I was the same when I was a kid). Here is a transcript of our conversation after I took him with me to get both of ours done.
C: I don’t like getting my hair cut! I want to just have it hang down over my eyes.
Me: Hey, it’s fine; it looks good.
C: I don’t want it to look “good”.
Me: Well, how do you want it? Can you think of someone that has it the way that you want yours?
C: No, that’s exactly why I want it that way!
Here’s an excerpt from a comment I just made over in a long running discussion on Dan’s blog. Since I spent a couple minutes typing it, I figured I’d post it out here as well so it wouldn’t go to waste, since unless you use an RSS reader to track the comments or check them regularly “by hand” you’d probably miss it.
I do, however, take offense at the comment that the left “hates America”; that is completely untrue.
First of all, I object to categorizing people as “left” or “right” in the first place, although our culture and media (especially radio) tends to encourage that kind of thinking and labeling. I’d rather have my own opinions of any given issue, whether they align politically with the “left” or the “right” doesn’t really concern me.
Many of my views could be considered “left” by some, but I also have many opinions that would more closely align with the “right”, so does that mean I only love/hate America half-heartedly? No, it just illustrates that the whole generalization is just plain wrong.
I’ve been lagging lately on blogging, just because I have a lot of other stuff to do right now. I have been taking some notes on things I want to write about soon, so maybe later this evening I will catch up.