Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

GrandCentral Beta

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

I just got invited into Google's beta of GrandCentral. If you're not already familiar with GrandCentral, here's how they describe themselves: With GrandCentral, you can be reached with a single number, answer a call at any phone you want, seamlessly switch phones in the middle of a call, and even know ...

Hijacked DNS?

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Today I found that one of my domains was not displaying my website, but instead was showing visitors a list of Google AdWords sponsored links, and throwing malicious pop-under windows. I did a quick ping, nslookup and a whois query on it. The ping replied from 66.45.237.187. Not my ...

Five Hours!

Friday, August 4th, 2006

... The length of time Michele and I just spent, disconnected from the outside world. Well, technically, I guess we had our cell phones and they were working. And we are still able-bodied so we could have walked somewhere. We both have functioning vehicles as well. And we ...

Just this one time

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Attention: To all of you wastoids who still insist on using Internet Explorer, even after the Mozilla Foundation offered you a vastly superior and more standards compliant browser (Firefox) for FREE. And even after Opera Software decided to stop charging for their also vastly superior browser (Opera). Microsoft has recently ...

Custom computer terminology wordlist

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Have you ever found yourself composing an email with Microsoft Outlook and notice that many of the words you've just typed are underlined in red even though your positive that they're are spelled correctly? If you're like me and most of your emails contain geek speak, then you have. ...

Voicemail… again

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Congratulations to Rusty on being the first person to successfully leave me a voicemail in several months! Thanks man. I appreciate your effort.

Voicemail

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

I finally got on the horn with T-Mobile and got my voicemail fixed. Feel free to leave a message after the tone now.

Free Software

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

For the past three weeks I've been in the process of building a new email filtering gateway/relay, diligently hacking away at an installation of Suse Linux on an old Compaq ML380 rackmount server. Downloading, testing, tweaking, monitoring, securing. This machine currently accepts, analyzes, filters and then passes on email for ...

It has begun

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

FYI: I have been using the same AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8GHz) processor since early 2002. For some, hell even MOST people, this would be perfectly sufficient. In fact, this PC has never really given me any grief. From a non-gaming standpoint, it will do anything I ask ...

Finally This And Finally That

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

I finally finished putting together all of our new office furniture on Friday. It only took me three days, too. It's really really nice. Here soon I'll post a picture of it. Which brings me to my next point... I finally got a new camera. I ...