the better it gets, the better it gets
Posted in General on May 17th, 2006
Since I moved the server on Sunday, I’ve (for the first time in a long time) been reading the ’server activity’ email that gets sent to me every morning.
Was surprised to see 752 illegal logon attempts from ‘61.235.97.166′.
Did a reverse-lookup on the IP address and it’s registered to ‘China Railway Telecommunications Center’. Nice.
Oye. 752 attempts? [...]
Posted in General on May 16th, 2006
So I guess our friend Kevin from DC (the cool GWU dorm room guy from this post) went to a costume party. The scary part is that the mess below is all his real hair.
Yay, they’re here!!!!!
http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html, if you haven’t already seen them. Bare bones “Yugo” model = $1099, … nicely equiped = $1299. All with MagSafe, iSight, and the new magnetic (latchess) closing system. w00t x 2!
I’m anxious to see the user reviews on the forums. If there aren’t any [...]
Posted in General on May 15th, 2006
I want one!
Ideal Homes built the first zero energy home in the country priced under $200,000. The modest one-story, three-bedroom, two bathroom home produces as much energy as it consumes in a year, achieving net zero energy consumption.
Story
Posted in General on May 14th, 2006
Warning (for Aaron): geek speak to follow:
I copied all of the server stuff from the G4 Mac mini (that was pretending to be a server when nobody important was looking, … running the PPC version of Fedora Core 4 and what not) over to my new Intel Mac mini where I’m using Parallel’s Workstation to [...]
Posted in General on May 10th, 2006
What did we learn here kids? Apple makes great products, but thermal paste should be left to grown ups- not children in chinese assembly lines.
Grrrr
Had to go to court on Thursday to testify in the matter of Thorn v. Deadbeat Ex. Got sworn in and testified … it was all sorts of Perry Mason cool. Judge ruled in my favor, so as soon as said Ex gets a legit job again (unemployment doesn’t count ), the [...]
If you ever testify in court, you might wish you could have been as sharp as this policeman.
He was being cross-examined by a defense attorney during a felony trial. The lawyer was trying to undermine the policeman’s credibility….
Added two new photo galleries:
Emily
and
“Look what the !#$% beagle chased in from the back yard!”