Curiosity in Practice
In two weeks I am on a career panel for a group of high school kids interested in technology careers. They sent a list of discussion questions they were going to use to get the conversation started and one of them was: What does it take to be successful in information technology? The answer to … Read more
My son asked me on Saturday as we were going into the store why an old guy was selling flowers. It gave me an opportunity to tell him about the “true meaning” of Memorial Day and explain to him that some of our bravest hero’s don’t get to come home. So today I will be … Read more
I got a call from a friend who was sure his PC was hacked because his CD-ROM drive kept randomly opening and closing. After looking at the machine I found a .vbs file in his appdata folder named RandomlyOpenCD.VBS (surprisingly It randomly opens and closes the CD drive) and nothing else that looked like an … Read more
Last night I sent an email to a good friend and his boss passing on an amazing career opportunity that paid an ungodly amount of money. It was basically Scrooge McDuck build a money bin money. So why didn’t I take it? After a lot of thinking and discussion with my wife it boiled down … Read more
This afternoon a “hacker” decided to text bomb my phone with about 1000 text messages asking me to paypal him $100 to stop. A couple of things: I don’t negotiate with terrorists. (I always wanted to say that.). Part of the text bomb gave me information on how it was happening. After getting a couple … Read more
Meet the Capello Sleep & Charge Dual Alarm Clock with Night Light sold exclusively by Target. It works fairly adequate as a: USB Charging Station Alarm Clock Radio Night Light(?) Why I hate it is this button right here: This “DST” button is .25" away from the snooze button, .2" away from the source and … Read more
I was having a conversation about security today with a good friend and the subject came up of what is the most difficult question in security to answer? After a few minutes of back and we fourth we settled on the following question: Who would want to hack us? This question is nearly always asked … Read more
I am going to whack the ball the over the fence. That was my four year olds response when I reminded him that his first T-Ball game was later that day as I woke him up. I love my son but he spent 80% of his first and only T-Ball practice trying to make the … Read more
This morning I was out running some errands and NPR had an interview with a David Sklansky a poker player who wrote a book called “The Theory Of Poker” and he said the most important thing to remember about poker is that: Poker Is Fundamentally A Battle Of Mistakes That quote stuck with me all day … Read more
I have a mentor who sends me a motivational quote a couple of times a week and today he dropped this on me: If you’re the smartest person in the room, then you need to find another room. I have heard that quote before and actually used it in an opening slide of a talk … Read more