Ole Eichhorn has written a great essay on the lost art of desk checking , sharing how slow and painful experiences with debugging led to habits of deliberate and careful pre-planning and checking My own parallel experiences: Okay, Im doing to date myself here too. Im also 49 years old, but didnt start programming until Senior High. First...

MessageLab mail forwarders have been unwilling to talk to GMail servers at least since Saturday 2008-03-29, with a mix of TCP connection refused and SMTP 421 Service Temporarily Unavailable Perhaps its related to flurry of articles about GMail CAPTCHA cracking three weeks ago and the resulting surge of spam Whatever the reason, its a painful outage

Ive been using the blogbackuponline beta since last April It just works Now its out of beta. I recommend it. (Id recommend it even if Techrigy didnt offer a small incentive to share the experience

...information on the rogue. Now my conscience is catching up to me, telling me I should at least tell the Hall of Justice folks, in case this MITM is a permanent installation

Note for other open source color management system users searching for more transform speed from the LittleCMS library Turning off the one-entry cache cuts 40% from runtime - unless youre transforming large uniform blocks for which a one-entry cache is actually suitable Eliminating the general-purpose byte packing and unpacking functions and...

Like many others in 2008, I am cheap, dont buy TVs very often, subscribe only to basic cable, and have questions about the impending February 17 2009 shutdown of analog over-the-air TV channels My prediction for 2008 is that confusion will reign because part of the answer is provided by cable, satellite, or telephone service companies, and their...

September 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day . It must be ever more popular, because one Talk Like a Pirate Day web site and its text translator died from overload. Meanwhile another Pirate Speak Translator offers text like Ive been helpin t orrrganize a rrregional securrrity conferrrence, th second annual Rochesterrr Securrrity Summit, scheduld ferrr...

Ive been helping to organize a regional security conference, the second annual Rochester Security Summit , scheduled for October 3 and 4. Good presenters, both business and technical tracks. Some seats are still open, register now

...security person, I must point out that if machines do not produce a reliable auditable record, then all you have is a fait accompli fraud-blessing device. Thats the short version of the security argument Im willing to go along with NIST that, as of today, all-electronic systems are an important research topic, not a settled present...

I participated in the public beta of BlogBackupOnline.com , and since then the service has gone live, and, for now, free. Signing up is relatively effortless, and now I have an extra up-to-date copy of my blog content without any administrative effort on my part They dont back up image content yet, but theyre working on it. I havent tried using...