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Childish web wars

fluffy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:19:08 +0000

My friend Duane who is clearly the best Vancouver Blogger is involved in some sort of strange scam to improve his google score. I am shocked, simply shocked that anyone participates in trying to to manipulated googles rating by posting links to other peoples blog on their blog. You can read more about it at http://duanestorey.com/2008/01/29/vancouver-blogger/. PS – If you are not convinced yet to go read this, Duane has great photos, check out his Blog of Vancouver Taboo Sex Show.

VON Europe – Stockholm

fluffy — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:22:06 +0000

Good coffee in Santa Cruz

fluffy — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:21:24 +0000

I’ve become a fan of Lulu Carpenter’s at The Octagon in santa cruz. Go try it.

Years Reading

fluffy — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:36:41 +0000

Drafts I read and commented on – printed double sided and 2 up.

Auto Staple Tool

fluffy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:47:42 +0000

American Wine Bottle Label

fluffy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:47:02 +0000

I kid you not, it really does say open other end

Rodent based QoS

fluffy — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 16:40:26 +0000

The real reason the internet did not work at the IETF hotel can be traced back to a large rodent.

Standard AD training to take out people at microphones

fluffy — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:05:13 +0000

I read your draft but someone ate my homework

fluffy — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:12:55 +0000

World’s worst “about box”

fluffy — Fri, 19 May 2006 13:58:18 +0000

It is pre release beta software but all I wanted was the version number – instead I got …

This picture really does not do it justice, it is actually an animated thing with shimmering water that rocks in a seasick motion while the text (which is under the water) scrolls off into the distance under in a bad star wars knock off.

Mail.App is CRAP – Let Me count the ways

fluffy — Thu, 04 May 2006 12:34:12 +0000

I don’t know why people go on about Apple’s great software. I’m dubious. In Mail.App:

They broke the ability to bind a key sequence to applescript in latest version
Earlier versions failed to check the certificate name of server in SSL connections
Can’t filter to display only unread messages
Does not spell check the Subject line when spell checking rest of message
Can’t include folder name in filter rule criteria
Search does not seem to use Spotlight
You can choose to check spelling when you send, or to have red squiggles under misspelled words – however you can’t have both. This is “upgrade” from pervious version where you could not spell check on send at all.
If you have two email address for a person, no way to set the preferred one.

Clearly I am in a bad mode but it seems today that the only things I like about my Mac are:

It runs UNIX
It runs Microsoft Powerpoint and Word

Climbing

fluffy — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:42:03 +0000

Hawrylyshen and Simpson make wild predections…

fluffy — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:57:10 +0000

Read all about it at:

http://www.tmcnet.com/sip/0106/sip-feature-articles-hidden-potential-0106.htm

Actually, I’m not sure they predict all that much in the end but, hey, someone has to post a link to this article

SMS 911 and Die

fluffy — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:26:55 +0000

There is a wonderful dumb moment in E911 as point 26 in Business 2.0’s dumbest moments in tech – February 1, 2006 where they quote Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skpe as saying

“If there’s a burglar in my home, maybe I send an e-mail or a text message to the police instead of making a call.”

Now I suspect that Niklas many have been trying to say that in some situations it would be nice to have alternative ways to contact a PSAP and I would agree but we will always want voice as one way, and mostly likely the primary way, to contact a PSAP?

Your coffee tastes like ….

fluffy — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:16:34 +0000

Uh, I’m not sure I want to try this but ….

The claim is “The World’s Most Expensive Coffee is From Beans Cycled Through an Indonesian Monkey’s Digestive System”. News real at http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/k/kopiluwak.htm

Seattle

fluffy — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:48:29 +0000

On Dan’s brother’s recommendation, I went to Espresso Vivace Roasteria. It was very good.

Unrelated photos …

Espresso Links

fluffy — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:22:55 +0000

Best URL:

www.espressoporn.com

Nice Art:

Foto’s Nederlands Kampioenschap Latte Art

Great Coffee:

Barefoot Coffee Roasters – San Jose

Caffe Artigiano – Vancouver

Hines Coffee – Seattle

Random Links:

CoffeeGeek – News, Reviews, Opinion and Community for Coffee and Espresso

Specialty Coffee Association of America

La Marzocco GS3 – Google Search

One of my favorite Cisco ads.

fluffy — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:30:21 +0000

Click on the link below then search for “The Boss”.

The Boss: Security Powered by Cisco: Cisco Systems TV Ad

Multiple choice exams that really make you wonder which monkey created this exam

fluffy — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:19:44 +0000

ICE Meltdown

fluffy — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:26:50 +0000

Microsoft and Cisco Systems Announce Support for ICE Methodology to Deliver End-to-End Media Connections Across NATs

If someone has the link from this morning IETF MMUSIC WG meeting, let me know where it is.

ICE

fluffy — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:26:50 +0000

Microsoft and Cisco Systems Announce Support for ICE Methodology to Deliver End-to-End Media Connections Across NATs

If someone has the link from this morning IETF MMUSIC WG meeting, let me know where it is.

Value of Lunch

fluffy — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:12:31 +0000

So wired magazine has some charity contest thing – One of the top items is pretty cool and valued at $102,000

However they seem to have an item that is worth even more.

So webster has priceless defined as

Main Entry: priceless

a : having a value beyond any price : Invaluable b : costly because of rarity or quality : precious
: having worth in terms of other than market value
: delightfully amusing, odd, or absurd

So I guess it could mean any one of these three. But it did get me thinking, if lunch with Brad is priceless, what about lunch with me? Any takers at 50 cents? What if I buy? And what really should lunch with the head system administrator at Cisco be worth?

Cullen’s folding bike

fluffy — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:51:05 +0000

Bike

Sign above garage thanks to my kind friends EKR and JF who rub this in every chance they get

4 out of 3 people don’t get statistics

fluffy — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:25:54 +0000

I’m sure you think you are one of the people that
do get it… Well before you decide you are, make sure you know the answer to a
very trivial probability problem that I have posted before at href="http://www.dial911anddie.com/blog/C132084747/E757052080/index.html">http://www.dial911anddie.com/blog/C132084747/E757052080/index.html.
Anyways, I don’t understand why people are surprised by things
like:

It
is partially a function of we publish “interesting” results, even if they are
only expect to be right 19/20 times while we don’t publish “un interesting”
results.

Crunchy on the outside, Chewy in the middle

fluffy — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:31:35 +0000

As many of you know, I’m not a big fan
security based on Crunchy on the outside, Chewy in the middle security model.

However, I just saw a web site about
what the captain of all crunch is now up to and I love it. What else but the
Crunch Box which
they describes as “a virtually un-crackable
firewall”

In case anyone is missing
where the Crunchy/Chewy analogy comes from,

(Read more to see where this photo came from
)

And my ever popular SIP ALG
picture….

The really weird thing is the sign above was
nailed to a tree in the middle of the wood in BC – I kid you not. I have no idea
what it was doing there, I did not put it there.

It’s all too weird.

Tiny notebook computers?

fluffy — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:47:17 +0000

My general impression from reading the media was
notebook computers are getting smaller. I recently went to a meeting where I a
think my 17 inch powerbook was the smallest of the twelve notebook computers in
the room.

Immediate Service Deliver

fluffy — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 16:07:05 +0000

I was recently watching a powerpoint presentation
in a fairly stuffy business setting about the great things that enterprise voip
and collaborations systems are bringing to customers. One of the slides had this
great graphic in
it.

How Apple with exit the iPod business

fluffy — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 23:11:25 +0000

I love my iPod. However, I predict that apple
will loose this business to others. The problem is that most people have less
than 2000 songs that they actively listen to. This numberr is not growing, or if
it is growing, it is not growing rapidly. On the other hand the cost of flash is
dropping rapidly. Imagine you could buy a 8G flash card for $50. The only thing
your average cell phone is missing from being a nice MP3 player is the storage.
They have the CPU, battery, and audio circuitry to do it. Every cell phone
provider will just include the storage or will provide a slot where you stuff in
a storage card that you purchase separately. Now Apple could stay in the iTunes
business – it’s a nice program to manage you music. However, they will not see
how they can monazite this in any strong way so instead of making it work for
all mp3 players, they will use it to try and promote their own iPod hardware.
Other manufactures will make iPod clones that are just as nice and cell phones
and other devices will erode the market. Eventually apple will exit the iPod
market.

NATs NATs NATs

fluffy — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 19:23:21 +0000

If you want to test a nat – these are available.

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target="NewWindow">
href="http://www.dial911anddie.com/nats2004/nats2004.html"
target="NewWindow">http://www.dial911anddie.com/nats2004/nats2004.html

Another happy OpenSSL users

fluffy — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:59:04 +0000

Rohan leans the
difference between add_all_algorithm and add_ssl_algorithms

9:15 AM – Rohan starts hacking up a program that
uses OpenSSL

10:15 and starts reading the
documentation, and comes to the conclusion it sucks

11:15
AM – None the less he happily finishes his program. This openSSL stuff is not so
bad after all, but the documentation still sucks.

then decides to run it.

6 pm – still does not run and all
functions return success

9 pm – still no joy

11
pm – Rohan has become demonic and is bending the space time around his
ass.

11:00
pm – A real expert arrives on the scene

11:02 pm – s/ssl/all and the program
works.

Seems that more things that
just the documentation suck.

Free as in beer? Not a Cisco beer!

fluffy — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 03:34:35 +0000

At IETF 61 I had the opportunity to buy the most
expensive beer I have ever purchased. It was a Cisco beer.