Archive for December, 2006

I found a great site with some excellent suggestions for enhancing your security in the coming New Year! 13 easy ways to safeguard your privacy in 2007 at In Corruption …Read the rest of this post

Open to Open Source?

30 Dec, 2006

I started this blog to give some advice to my family and friends, so I am thinking about posting a list of links to free and/or open source software that …Read the rest of this post

Stab and twist!

30 Dec, 2006

I just found a link to the Violent Acres blog, where a woman recounts how her Marine dad taught her to fight when she was six. Violent Acres – How …Read the rest of this post

This one is new to me. A new way for thieves to get your ATM card and your PIN! How they steal your card at the ATM Stay paranoid, stay …Read the rest of this post

ConsumerAffairs.com has listed their top ten scams for 2006. Take a look through these. Too many otherwise intelligent people fall for these scams every day! ConsumerAffairs.com

Benjamin Keen has released his Data Generator code under the GPL! Download it here: Data Generator Download Don’t forget to toss him a few bucks if you find it useful! …Read the rest of this post

I found a great web site that allows you to generate random(ish) data (of the appropriate types) for testing your applications. www.benjaminkeen.com He’ll be posting the code later this week, …Read the rest of this post

It’s amazing what an afternoon with a chainsaw can accomplish. Many thanks to my friend Dale for the loan of the chainsaw. I hauled all of the large pieces to …Read the rest of this post

I had to change the theme. The “Caffiene” theme I was using kept messing up the posts when I added photos. This will not be the final look. I’m going …Read the rest of this post

Ice, Ice, Baby!

2 Dec, 2006

We had freezing rain a couple of days ago. Everything was coated with a quarter to a half an inch of ice. All that weight was too much for the …Read the rest of this post