Happy Birthday, now your one year older. Happy Birthday, your life still isn’t over. Happy Birthday, you did not accomplish much. But you didn’t die this year i guess that’s good enough. From Funny Happy Birthday Song by Adam Sandler Hard to believe that last month marked the third anniversary of Security For All. Actually [...]
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Security For All is three years old!
Posted: October 9, 2011 in general, professional, security, UncategorizedTags: Security for All, third birthday
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Captain X-Ploit: Maxwell D. Higgens
Posted: July 15, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Captain X-Ploit, exploit, extraterrestrials, hacker, Trustonia
The Adventures of Captain X-Ploit: A life without love is a life wasted… or whatever. ~ Maxwell D. Higgens – Special Edition – This is a story about Maxwell, it begins in the lab of an alien ship floating somewhere in the Betelgeuse system. Stan cast his eyes around the lab looking for someone to [...]
Common sense advice for parents of networked kids
Posted: November 9, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: common sense, kids online, parents
Just lately I’ve discovered Common Sense Media and am quite impressed with their tools and advice for parents that are soundly based on, well, common sense. Anyone who has read earlier posts on this blog like this one or this one knows that I’m really big on the idea that security begins with don’t be [...]
FIRST Robotics Challenge
Posted: March 29, 2009 in general, UncategorizedTags: Dean Kamen, FIRST, FIRST Robotics Challenge, FRC, Robotics, volunteers
This weekend we volunteered at the FIRST Robotics Challenge Colorado Regional. Not only is this a ton of fun – teams of high school students build robots to compete in a different game each year – it’s a very important activity to encourage young people to get involved in technology. First a little background on [...]
Computerworld has this article about the Top 15 Vaporware Products of All Time. Here’s an abbreviated list of stuff we waited breathlessly for or completely ignored that almost but never quite happened. 15. Ovation - In 1983, Ovation Technologies, a startup founded the year before, announced an integrated package that promised to include word processing, [...]
Start off the new year right
Posted: January 2, 2009 in general, security, UncategorizedTags: American Sign Language, ASL, Deafness, New Year resolutions, Sign Language
Most of us have typical New Year resolutions like going on a diet and exercising more or quit smoking. While these are certainly good, healthy goals we really should be doing them anyway and New Years resolutions are simply a delaying mechanism so that we can scarf down those delicious goodies over the holidays while [...]
Is suing your customers for fun and profit unconstitutional?
Posted: November 22, 2008 in general, UncategorizedTags: Charles Nesson, David Draiman, Harvard law, lawsuit, Music theft, Piracy, Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA, unconstitutional
The entertainment industry has always baffled me. That’s probably why I never became a pop star. Well that and lack of talent. Actually, I understand the entertainment part of the industry, it’s the copyright policing groups like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) that confuse me. This group is infamous for their Gestapo-esque tactics [...]
OLPC G1G1 2008
Posted: November 14, 2008 in general, UncategorizedTags: Amazon, Europe, G1G1, Give One Get One, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization, creators and purveyors of those cute green and white XO laptops, have announced another Give One, Get One (G1G1) program for 2008. In case you are unfamiliar with last year’s G1G1 program, its a deal where buyers pay for two XO laptops, get one machine for themselves and [...]
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Great stuff that never happened
Posted: September 27, 2008 in general, UncategorizedTags: Al Gore, Apple, Bill Gates, internet, Internet2, iphone, MacTablet, PC Gaming, tech myths, Ted Stevens
Bury your memories bury your friends, Leave it alone for a year or two. Till the stories go hazy and the legends come true, Then do it again. Some Things never end. From “Eleventh Earl of Mar” Genesis John Brandon has an article in ComputerWorld, Famous tech myths that just won’t die. Wherein he attempts [...]
