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Earthquake!
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Earthquake!
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CYBER CRIME IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH -
Major Players Meeting in San Diego to
Discuss as the Information Security
Conference, ToorCon, Returns to San
Diego September 24-26 at the Manchester
Grand Hyatt
CYBER CRIME IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH -
Major Players Meeting in San Diego to
Discuss as the Information Security
Conference, ToorCon, Returns to San
Diego September 24-26 at the Manchester
Grand Hyatt
08/31/2004 02:23 AMCompany Presidents, Experienced Hackers, and Inquisitive Computer
Users Won't Want to Miss Learning the Latest in Computer Security.
[PRWEB Aug 31, 2004]
This really, really sucks
This really, really sucks
09/05/2004 10:12 PM
This
really, really sucks On Saturday night after their Houston show,
Engine Down's van and trailer
were stolen from the parking lot of the Red Roof Inn on NW Freeway in
Houston. All of their gear, 3 laptop computers, cameras, merchandise
and personal items are all gone. If you want to help them out at all,
click
here.
Buy.com still sucks
Buy.com still sucks
02/12/2004 12:40 PMMore than four years ago, I ordered a CD from buy.com. The album was a
new release and widely available everywhere, but it took them two
months to process and ship the order...and then it never actually
showed up. I haven't shopped there since. This morning I got an email
from buy.com announcing their "NEW Cellular Store", one of many I've
gotten from them since that initial shopping experience despite...
It sucks
It sucks
11/11/2003 10:33 AM It sucks to be wounded.
I got a Mac and it sucks
I got a Mac and it sucks
03/08/2004 11:11 PMI just spent an hour on the phone with my father-in-law failing to
help him find his email client. It used to be there, but it vanished
from the tool bar at the bottom. Now we can't get it back. None of the
Finder options seem to actually help us find anything. I know it's
there. I know it's "easy." But it sure ain't intuitive. Anyone want to
give me the most basic instruction about how to find things on the
!@#$% Mac, OS X? As Dr. Dean would say, "Aaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhh!" [Ten
minutes later] I can't even walk my father-in-law...
Soon I'll be in San Diego
Soon I'll be in San Diego
03/14/2005 05:38 PMYou may have noticed over on the sidebar (unless you're an RSS reader,
in which case here's a special message for you (non-RSS readers, feel
free to skip ahead): you're missing new content that I don't
syndicate! I put little messages and pictures in the sidebar! Come
back to the lovely old HTML megnut.com!) that I'll be attending the
4th Annual O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference later this month in
San Diego. I've been to every Emerging Tech conference and am once
again looking forward to the trip and the experience.
I'm especially looking forward to hearing New Yorker columnist James
Surowiecki speak (Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds, or Is It
Possible to Be Too Connected?), as he's one of my favs from the
magazine. And there's a hardware hacks (Hardware Hacks from the Far
Side) session that piques my interest as well. I always find I go to
the sessions about hardware and then envision myself soldering things
and building my own army of robots once I get home. Alas, I have yet
to build one robot arm or leg, so there's nothing even close to a
company or regiment of robots in my apartment. But maybe this is the
year! Of course, my army of robots would be a peace-loving type of
army, tasked with feeding the cat while I'm out of town and emptying
his kitty litter. Maybe they'd do some dishes too.
In summary, in case you had trouble following that crazy post: I'm
going to the Emerging Technology Conference. And: yay!
NYC Hotels Get Wi-Fi Everywhere
NYC Hotels Get Wi-Fi Everywhere
12/09/2003 03:51 PMRoomLinx is building Wi-Fi networks in six hotels owned by Affinia:
Five of the hotels will get Wi-Fi everywhere, including guest rooms.
The hotels in Manhattan should all be complete early next year....
ARGH, MY MAC SUCKS!
ARGH, MY MAC SUCKS!
05/12/2004 08:23 AMHow do I turn on the screensaver with a key combination!?! I don't
want to use the hot corners (I already have them overloaded with
Exposé and I want to have the top left corner free so I don't have to
worry about counting pixels when I try and access the Apple menu), but
so far the best way to lock the Powerbook is to go and turn the lid
down and then back up again. which turns on the screen saver (and
stops iTunes, BTW, since the computer goes to sleep for a second).
I know there are Mac people reading me, so please: tell me which key
combination I have to use, or which freeware application I have to
install to just be able to press Apple-F12 to lock the computer! I've
been trying to find the info from Google, but apparently I haven't
been able to figure out the right keywords.
Frustrated now!
(Sorry for the headline, just wanted to grab your attention there. My
Mac Powerbook does NOT suck, it is a wonderful little machine and I
grow more attached to it every day. It is by far the best computer
I've ever owned. I just need this one thing to make it perfect.
Please?)
Wireless in San Diego
Wireless in San Diego
01/19/2004 08:24 AM
"San Diego Earthquake!"
"San Diego Earthquake!"
06/17/2004 10:44 PMPassym sucks
Passym sucks
01/22/2004 03:17 AMTonight is my second night in an Embassy Suites with Passym
Wireless internet access, and I have to say that Passym really
sucks.
Connectivity is just horrible. I don't know why the service sucks
so badly... it might be because I'm in a corner room (they're larger
at the Embassy Suites) or it might be because I'm using a Macintosh,
but neither of those two things should be reasons that the
connectivity sucks so badly...
Maybe there are too many people using the service to keep up with
what I want to do, but that shouldn't be a problem. I've normally
stayed in Wyndham and Marriot hotels with Wayport access, and even
though most of the time those hotels only provide wired access, they
always worked just fine. I could connect to my office's VPN at the
most complicated end of connectivity issues, and I could definitely
send email through my own servers, but with this silly Passym service,
I can't connect to the VPN and I can't even send email through my own
service... and the speeds are terribly slow compared to what I expect
them to be... especially at $10/day.
The worst part is that to get technical support, I'm supposed to
email their support@ email address... no one here at the hotel knows
anything about the service from a technical/troubleshooting
stand-point, and I can't get email out through my email client. Good
thing I have a webmail client set up on my server...
So, next time I stay in a hotel, I'll ask them if they have
internet access, and I'll ask who the provider is. If it's Passym,
I'll choose a different hotel if internet connectivity will be a
need.
On my way to sunny San Diego
On my way to sunny San Diego
02/10/2004 02:56 AMI'm writing this on the plane to the O'Reilly Digital Democracy
Teach-In and Emerging Technologies conference in sunny San Diego.
Sitting just behind me on the plane and reading news on paper is Tim
O'Reilly, whose generosity made it possible for me to attend the
conferences. I infer that he must have a lot of confidence in Rael and
the smooth workings of the whole O'Reilly organization to wait to show
up until the night before a 4 day conference he is putting on. I'm
excited about learning more about new technologies, and encouraged
that technologists are thinking about how they can improve our badly
wounded democracy, as well as catching up with a lot of people that I
know only from email and their writing. Unlike a lot of other people,
I'm not particularly good at writing while people are speaking -- I
find that it distracts me from thinking about what they are saying, so
I probably won't write much during the conference. I leave that up to
the usual suspects, who can type faster than I can speak, and who
manage to add decent commentary as well....
First impressions of San Diego
First impressions of San Diego
02/10/2004 02:56 AMI arrived in San Diego fairly late, and went straight to my hotel. In
the interest of economy, I had decided to stay in the local Hostel. I
wouldn't recommend it. Speaking politely, it is grimy. They sell ear
plugs at the front desk. I don't mind spartan, but I like clean. I've
stayed in $12 hotels in Central America that were cleaner and had more
amenities. And there is no net connection, not even dial-up! I would
happily trade the old TV in the room for a phone line, and both of
them for a good cleaning. Oh well, I don't expect to spend much time
in the hotel, and luckily I used HTTrack Website Copier to mirror the
O'Reilly Conference website before I left Berkeley, so at least I have
conference resources locally. After getting settled in my hotel room,
I decided to go for a walk before going to bed, and I wandered over to
the Westin where the conference is going to be held. Not having a clue
as to what the neighborhood was like late at night, I decided not to
bring my computer with me. The sight of a Hooters a block away from my
hotel didn't fill me with confidence about the security of the area. I
had never seen a Hooters before - I thought they were a mythical
chain, equivalent to unicorns. Guess not. I suspect I have some
culture shocks coming, on my third trip to Southern California in my
20 years living in California. I had a lovely walk over to the Westin.
The air was balmy, and it was comfortable walking in shirt sleeves.
The streets in the Gaslamp district were mostly empty, except for a
few straggling partiers, drunks, and homeless folks. I wandered into
the lounge in the Westin, and found a number of geeks taking advantage
of the free wireless in the bar. I had a drink and watched the
digerati arrive and gather. Many of the same people who I always see
at these conferences -- the dour Dan Gillmor, the ever polite Doc
Searls, the bubbling Cory Doctorow, plus the crew from O'Reilly -- the
mysterious Rael Dornfest, and the earnest Schuyler Erle, had gathered
around the tables. There were also lots of people I've never met, like
Jon Lebkowsky and a group of young European hackers swapping jet-lag
stories. After my drink...
Diego Doval
Diego Doval
07/03/2004 12:08 PM
In next week's InfoWorld column, I quote
Diego Doval, CTO
of
clevercactus. Or rather,
I meant to quote him. For reasons that escape me, I attributed Diego's
remarks to
Diego Rivera, the
famous Mexican muralist. I have no earthly idea how I managed to
transpose the living computer scientist and the dead artist. Since
Diego Rivera won't be reading this, I'll direct my apology to Diego
Doval. For the record:
...“Your Company Sucks!”
“Your Company Sucks!”
06/02/2004 02:32 AMCustomInk.com publishes uncensored customer satisfaction reviews to
create a sales bonanza [PRWEB Jun 2, 2004]
Spellex-Anywhere SUCKS!
Spellex-Anywhere SUCKS!
07/05/2004 07:35 AMI did a stupid thing earlier this week I purchased a spell checker to use for online
spell checking being I could not get Firefox's spell checker to work.
I went googling and thought I found a good program I should have run
it a couple of days. What a piece of
crap. When it is running it seems to want to own the clipboard and
not give it back. It doesn't recognize when I have put the cursor in a
different window. The list goes on. I will be invoking their 30 day
satisfaction guaranteed clause. Anyone have a good suggestion for a
spell checker to use with Firefox
Poverty sucks!
Poverty sucks!
03/06/2004 01:54 AMSchool sucks...
School sucks...
05/09/2004 02:07 PM
Monroe County Family Court Judge Marilyn O'Connor ruled March 31
that two parents "should not have yet another child which must
be cared for at public expense." Unconstitutional?
Maybe. But not sufficiently so for the
NY
ACLU to say
much anything about it.
Maybe the Judge could have recommended the same sex-ed scheme that
shows, in parts of England and Wales where it [called A Pause] was
trialled in 104 schools, sexual intercourse among 16-year-olds fell by
up to 20 per cent.
Now that may mean we have to have
more
discussion of oral and manual, with less genital-genital emphasis.
Anything that promotes the right to say 'no' amongst vulnerable young
folks is alright by me.
Why Applecare Sucks
Why Applecare Sucks
03/06/2004 02:06 AM(PJ Doland via MyAppleMenu)
Moving Sucks
Moving Sucks
03/06/2004 02:09 AMNow I remember why I waited 4+ years to move again. So much unpacking
to do. So very much. But hey, at least the 3Mbit DSL is working and
the wireless works well too! Sunday I head down to SoCal for about a
day and a half. More on that when I return from the trip....
On the plane to San Diego
On the plane to San Diego
02/10/2004 02:47 AMBack before all this weblogging stuff, I used to work as a
consultant. Every Monday I had to get up and fly off to some city
(Newark NJ, Bloomington IL by way of Chicago, Atlanta, etc.) where I'd
spend the week working on-site at the client's office, and then I'd
fly home on Friday afternoon, often barely arriving in time for
dinner. I'd have two days home, and then be off again bright early
Monday AM. It was fun and grueling, and this morning I got a little
taste of my old life.
I woke up at 4:45 AM to catch a 7 AM flight to San Diego for the
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. At the gate I noticed my
former compatriots, the Monday morning business travelers. During the
pre-boarding, I was the only woman, surrounded by men with suits,
briefcases, and trench coats. It was just like the old days, and yet
it wasn't, thanks to the amazing technology advances in the past six
years. In the past it used to take me two laptop batteries to make it
across the country, and even then, I'd often run out. And as for
music, I was pretty much limited to the amount of CDs I could carry
with me. So far today I've been flying for over three hours and I've
got nearly 50% of my battery left on my iBook. My iPod also still has
half its charge, and over 4 straight days of music sit at my
fingertips. Pretty incredible, it sure makes for a more pleasant trip.
Now if only they could do something about speeding up the flight, and
warming up the plane!
Disco Sucks!
Disco Sucks!
07/14/2004 11:57 AM
25 years ago a
Chicago radio disc jockey had an idea for a promotional event.
Steve Dahl invited his listeners to bring a
disco record to a double-header White Sox game. Between games he was
going to blow them up. What happened was a
full
scale riot that caused the White Sox to forfeit and disco to die.
Spyware Sucks!
Spyware Sucks!
04/19/2004 08:25 PM"dotCanada sucks"
"dotCanada sucks"
04/20/2004 10:17 PM"Technorati sucks"
"Technorati sucks"
08/01/2004 08:33 AM"San Diego Comic-Con"
"San Diego Comic-Con"
07/26/2004 03:47 PMMatrix 3 sucks
Matrix 3 sucks
11/05/2003 07:05 PM I feel so burned. I can't believe I
(called in sick to go
see) went to
Matrix Revolutions. IMO, they shouldn't have made it
into a franchise, as the first Matrix was just fine as a stand-alone
movie.
Viral Sucks
Viral Sucks
12/22/2003 05:18 PMInternet Works Dec 22 2003 4:55PM ET
Pep boys sucks
Pep boys sucks
03/19/2003 10:44 PMTucson reservist loses job when Navy calls Automotive supply chain Pep
Boys fired a Tucson store manager because his military Reserve duties
took him away from work, according to a federal lawsuit filed here.
Read the article. It’s heart-wrenching nonsense...
Sometimes it sucks to be a Geek
Sometimes it sucks to be a Geek
09/20/2004 02:53 AMMy wife and I went to a work related party last night which turned
out to be pretty boring. So much for the $70.00 spent on tickets. We
left early and knew that the sitter was good to go decided to drop in
on a friend of hers.
We get to her house and I am admiring her house and see a big
Master Degree in Education hanging over her computer. I was surprised
to see it actually as we have known her for a while and she had never
mentioned it. Anyway to make a long story short she says hey my PC is
having problems can you look at it.
You guessed it 2 hours later and much under breath cursing I give
up and tell her I need to take it home or we can just pull the restore
disk out and start from scratch. I get this deer in the headlights
look when I explain that her computer has been hijacked and is
infected with nearly every piece of spyware known to man.
1. Virus Definitions 2 years old
2. She had never run Windows Update.
3. Systems is plugged directly into cable modem
4. No Spyware detection software
5. No Firewall
Remember now she has a Masters Degree in Education. She commented I
should open a business and fix peoples computers like hers. I guess my
21+ years working with advanced electronics now makes me qualified to
fix computers. I suppose I could charge her $750.00 for a days worth
of work. All I could do was smile and say drop it by the house and I
will get it fixed for you...
All my wife could say when we left was sorry. I hate stupid
educated people. Sometimes being a geek sucks.
Flickr Sucks!
Flickr Sucks!
12/19/2004 03:52 PMFlickr Sucks!
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Polling sucks
Polling sucks
03/15/2003 06:27 PMActually, I'd go further than that--a system that polls has something
about it that's fundamentally broken. Now, occasionally (very
occasionally)...
Software that Sucks
Software that Sucks
01/07/2004 07:04 PM ?How sad to see two leading Democrats fall for, even feed the lie
that they can create user-oriented software?
San Diego Dinner Anyone
San Diego Dinner Anyone
11/18/2003 03:32 AMI will be in San Diego tomorrow/today Tuesday the 18th thru mid-day on
the 20th and after the success of...
Why JSP Sucks So Hard
Why JSP Sucks So Hard
12/19/2002 11:43 PMonce again my UI engineers will be taking perfectly good HTML
written in Dreamweaver and tearing it apart, throwing out some of it
and rewriting other parts of it, just to make it work with the JSP
they're writing. Once they're done, the HTML author will have
absolutely no clue what the page does any more, and will have no
desire or ability to edit it. When we insist that no really we need
this redesigned, we'll spend twice as long doing it (doubling our
costs, negative ROI, bad technology choice, yadda yadda yadda) since
the HTML author will need that long to write in sample data and then
have the JSP author tear it out again. -- Marc Hedlund
Is Adam Bosworth saying the same thing?
In sunny San Diego
In sunny San Diego
03/17/2005 03:25 AMI'm in San Diego at Etech. If you're here, come say hi! I look a
little different. According to Xeni -- who didn't recognize me -- I
look, "less stressed" that I used to. I think it's also the longer
hair that's a big frizzy mess in the oceany yumminess that's San
Diego's humidity. I've snapped a photo from my phone so you can get an
idea of my new "look" and how tired I am from flying so very far in a
horribly old cramped 737 that felt like taking a pick-up truck through
the sky for six+ hours.
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