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Watch this space… I'm currently domain-registered with GoDaddy, but ever since they a) switched to running parked domains on Windows, and b) took down seclist.org, I've been looking for a new registrar. Dreamhost seems to be flavour of the month for programmers, and I'm impressed enough to shell out for…

I'm having a conversation with right now about his latest post. I am surprised he mixes home and work so freely. But enough about that. It made me think of a few observations about corporate life. Aristotle said: “The law is reason free from passion.” I say: “A corporation is…

I'm fed up with inkjets. Every inkjet – every one – I've had for the last 10 years has lasted no longer than 2 years. One day, they just start dropping lines or printing strangely, probably because of a clogged head or waste tube or something. I tried to fix…

Ah yes, April 1st. The day when the Internet becomes useless because the various editors out there don't seem to understand that it is not an April Fools' joke when every bloody article you read is a bunch of useless tripe. Less is more, people. And since the Internet enables…

My Epson CX6400 hasn't been printing properly for a while. This weekend I got around to taking it apart to see what was up. The usual story with inkjets is that the waste ink tubes get clogged. I was unable to find a service manual for free online, so I…

I used one of my local open wireless access points to download some stuff on my laptop. Actually, just enough to get the wireless card working with WPA. Should I tell my neighbours to secure their AP?

It's amazing what you can glean just from listening to the ether. Armed with an old laptop, wireless card, Kismet, and quarter of an hour, I can tell you the following about my neighbourhood: There are 3 open wireless access points, 4 WEP-protected ones, and 5 or 6 WPA protected…

Lately mini-Elbeno has started to read words. No, really! Last week I printed out some flash cards and he can read about a dozen of them: nose, ears, dog, clap, wave, arms up, arms down, ball, book, and more I can't remember now. Although he can't say many of them…

…like you can tell where they're from. By listening to what they call things and how they speak. ! = pling (or exclamation mark) ” = quotes # = hash £ = pound sign $ = string ^ = hat (or up-arrow) & = and (rarely, ampersand) * = star…

Over 70% of radio listeners listen while in the car. What are your stations set to? Mine are: 1. KCBS 93.1 “Jack FM”. Used to be Arrow, a classic rock station. Now seems to be some sort of chain (I've heard one in the SF area called “Bob”) which makes…