Designs by Devin

On September 11, 2001 I watched the world change in front of my eyes, just as my father saw the world change when Sputnik went up on October 4, 1957, and his father listened to FDR's "Day of Infamy" speech on December 8th, 1941. I have an edited version of Jewel's "Hands" with all the sound bites from Sept. 11th on my iPod just to remind me how important eternal vigilance is.

I don't know whether to rejoice or cry at the fact that Wikipedia just accepted in whole my edits to the entry "Culture of Entitlement". They also upgraded the validity of the entry from being biased to valid.

I went to outgoing U.S. Senator John Warner’s website to tell him not to support any bailout of the auto makers and this is what I found: Kiss off! I don’t care. Despite the fact that the future, former Senator from the Great Commonwealth of Virginia will be voting either for or against the auto-manufacturers’ bailout program he no longer has a electronic form for constituents to advise him how they want him to vote.

There is nothing I can say that be remotely as funny and sarcastic as this video from The Onion.

Ok... the iPhone 3G is just way kewl. However, there are lots of reasons to NOT not be an early adopter on any technology, much less the iPhone 3G. I'm a huge Apple fan, most notably a Mac OSX fan. Any really stable, "just works" operating system based on BSD is always fine by me.

I'm a big fan on WinSCP, a SSH/SFTP client for Windows. It does everything I want it to do and more. I'm able to securely connect to a remote server via SCP, upload the latest patches to my client's websites, and then update the config files using the built-in editor to point to the new configuration. Presto! Change-O! New software is launched.

My three year experiment with a Windows Tablet PC came to a screeching halt Wednesday at the end of work when I did the unthinkable: I inadvertently dropped a Coke Zero into my machine.

The machine is dead: long live the machine.

Google unleashed a new iGoogle interface today. It looks clean; however, it also is meant for a wide-screen monitor. While they are becoming more and more popular, the standard form at most homes is by-and-large still a 4:3 aspect at 1024x768 pixels.

Today I woke up like so many other Windows XP users only to find that I had lost connectivity to the Internet... sorta.

Here in Northern Virginia we have started receiving telephone marketing messages from our local Domino's Pizza. It isn't bad enough that they felt they could violate my trusting them with my contact information, but they had the audacity to call my home phone, my cell phone and my wife's cell phone. Upon calling the manager to complain and ask to opt-out of marketing messages, the manager apologized for hitting all of our numbers.