Archive for: March 2004

I remember many a night in college and high school where I was up late the night before trying to get some school project done at the last minute. I am reminded of those times right now as I just …

While I’ve been in California this week, I have been excessively bad about blogging. Part of it is that I’ve learned about a lot of things I quite frankly can’t openly discuss on a blog. But I can mention a …

My FireWall-1 NG book has been out only two months and already they want to do a second printing. That means they’ve sold about 5,000 copies! Pretty damned fine if you ask me. However, that means I need to start …

This week, I am at my employers office in Mountain View. Due to the fact I am a renegade Linux user and the fact my SecurID? card decided to expire early, I am unable to use any “normal” sort of …

For the past several years, primarily for reasons of cost, I have hosted phoneboy.com on a shared server. Over the next couple of weeks, that’s going to change. The fine folks at Data393 have donated a nice mid-range server …

One thing my wife did with Jaden was get a non-diagnostic ultrasound at a place called Baby Pictures in Bellevue. Four years ago, they were the only place in Washington state where you could get “4D” ultrasound pictures of …

For the life of me, I do not understand why mobile phone carriers insist on locking their handsets to their service. For the uneducated consumer, it means being unable to use a perfectly good phone on a different provider when …

One of the cool things about doing an FAQ page for Broadvox Direct is that as a result, they’ve given me the ability to evaluate new and existing products. One of the existing products they’ve sent me is an IP …

I have to say, this was the highlight of my day. Ray Lodato wrote up a review of my book and submitted it to slashdot, and it got accepted and posted as front-page news! The resulting …

Given the recent slashdotting my site received, my ISP asked me to look into getting the ‘view’ script used to render pages on my site to run with FastCGI. It’s proving to be more difficult than I expected. I am …