2008

21:10 Sittin’ in Sausalito sippin’ on a Fat Tire and an Anchor Steam in the sun. #

16:18 My blackberry is tweaky and unhappy. That makes me tweaky and unhappy. #

08:56 SFO Twitterers: best places for breakfast? best places for a dinner? best places to watch a...

11:01 Am I the only person who knows absolutely nothing about Wall.E except that Twitterers keep...

none of the broadcast networks' June 24...

Chuck and Steve Garfield are saints for...

Oil crisis leads to calls for offshore...

Inspiring photography. Michael Kenna knows his black and...

MCEA suprised to be included on Department of...

11:03 Having to organize all the pictures I take gets tedious, which presents a very good reason...

08:53 Mother-in-law over for her birthday last night. She left early to watch the last half of the...

18:25 Today, I out-drove my ball with my driver head :( #

15:41 Chicken chicken chicken chicken, chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chickn? tinyurl.com/yu9r2v...

07:42 Lately, I’ve been lusting over Nikkor lenses that are way too expensive for my...

Hemorrhaging fish and algae blooms predicted...

08:35 Nokia is going to buy Symbian and open S.60? Interesting move, but that platform has been...

07:12 Watched a great sunset last night while driving from Ashland. Today, I start the completion...

08:44 A man and a cart-dog that could run faster than I. (and other shots from Kyoto) -...

oh sweet, Cinema Revolution is showing...

tumblelikeyougiveadamn:confessions:Obama and...

Firefox vunerability, (Thu, Jun 19th)

07:31 I get training on a netflow analysis tool today. # 10:26 NetFlow Tracker is kewl. Very...

16:27 Nine hours of meetings over, I’m now off to O’Gara’s to see a friend and...

22:43 Well, after dismantling what felt like 40% of my whole motorcycle, cleaning &...

Britain Launches Final Real-Life Skynet...

19:16 Just read a play-by-play of Mediate and Woods’ round today. I wish I could have...

11:33 Laying on a hammock at a friend’s cabin on French Lake near Fairbault. Wish you were...

19:55 Just finished bowling poorly at Park Tavern. Now off to Barley John’s with some...

00:31 Dear weather.com, if I google weather and my zip code on my phony, take me to my local...

06:24 Making coffee and wondering why I thought midnight was a good time to start in on that...

[from]

18:21 MN Twitter folk: I need a tree trimmed. Can you recommend any good and/or cheap trimmers of...

08:24 Please wait, uploading virus . 3 . 2 . 1 . * # 16:18 I must buy a beer at The Happy Gnome...

07:00 Up early. Cat things tended to, guest-dog fed, now getting ready for a 20-mile bike to the...

08:46 Best Flickr set ever: flickr.com/photos/doctorbeef/sets/72157603716342376/ # 17:10 Any...

Naked Without Strip Charts

Installing Ubuntu 6.06 LTS on a RAID5...

Note: I did this a long time ago, way back in 2006. I am going to attempt to 8.04 LTS. I hope it...

13:12 Any twittera have experience with GCALdaemon? Impressions? Performance/issues?...

18:00 It’s very eerie to see people out and about in St Paul at 1800. # 18:31 I’d...

09:34 All the kids these days are on The Plurk. This is a public-service announcement reminding...

Photo

08:20 Pondering life on my porch, sitting in the morning sun. Later, breakfast at Colossal Cafe...

18:44 Pea-sized hail near MSP airport. # 18:46 The sun is still shining though, and it’s...

07:41 I do wish Macs had contextual clicks/functions on a region of the track-pad similar to what...

Failure Tolerance - the Google way

Birth of a super-villain. [via glass, via heilmann, via...

08:31 I went to visit my first niece yesterday. I had the camera, but didn’t get any photos...

13:45 I am intrigued by your ideas; I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Also, I would...

10:16 I hate Mondays, especially when they’re Tuesdays. #

See

Geohashing

I’m going to make these. And I’m going to work...

08:51 I’m going camping this weekend in Lanesboro. I need to find my pedals though…...

The trouble with Teflon

08:09 Ahoy-hoy, twitterverse. Lots to do today: track down bots, write some policy, review some...

L Root Name Server Identity Theft

Houston being overrun by electronics-killing...

"Security": Whose Responsibility?

GM lost 285,000 units to American Axle...

09:08 Am I the only one alarmed by this? Someone assumed the IP of the previously deactivated...

07:00 Dear web 2.0 sites: SSL is not a “premium feature”, it’s essential from...

08:48 Let’s see if I can turn out a few deliverables today and avoid the sucking vortex of...

08:41 Heading to a friend’s to help her do some landscaping. And no, I will not be to your...

05:59 The sun is up and damnit, so am I. Oh well; I’m off on a nice drive to Winona once...

Must’ve been painted Friday afternoon…

07:34 I’m off to chat about an opportunity that I’m not sure of. Good pay, but...

i poop

08:41 I got my copy of “Little Brother” yesterday after work. I didn’t finish it...

08:41 I’ve got my few #minnebar shots up on Flickr: flickr.com/photos/minntc/tags/minnebar/...

07:43 Making coffee then heading to #MinneBar # 10:39 #MinneBar the closed mindset of large...

14:01 Meetings yesterday and today went extremely well. Very tough customers to please, and we did...

08:22 I’m all packed. Off to load the bike, then on the road to WInona. Have a good...

12:55 I had a really nice ride on the moto this AM. Now working on de-IRCing a few systems and...

Bacon of Hope. In response to Merlin Mann (and Lonely...

I apologize to you all.

I just dumped double or triple posts into the feed. I did not intend that. I have decided I can not...

08:15 Working from home this morning to get one report written, another reviewed, and get some...

10:42 Lots of motorcycles and scooters parked downtown today. So many that I had to park in a...

11:42 St the Living Green Expo with all the hippies and looking for lunch. Good times! # 21:18...

07:39 Today: Meetings, phone calls, report writing. Visit family and a new baby tonight. Tomorrow...

Youch. Dang SUV drivers, thinking they can do...

07:46 Just RSVP’d to attend #SMBMSP 3.0 on May 16 at Concordia. Are you going?...

They are watching.

08:02 Interesting data points on consulting and billing. tinyurl.com/5eoc7z #

07:47 Today, I hope to find a picture to take for a new website. # 11:54 I’d like...

Stop XSS attacks with SafeHTML

Mazda creates disassembly line in wake of...

07:47 Today, I hope to find a picture to take for a new website. # 11:54 I’d like...

Really good tips for writing and...

With exception to the “use lists” item, these tips are fantastic. I avoid blogs that...

A new favorite image, rediscovered after wandering through...

09:40 Wishing I could start today with a ride on the motorcycle, but my hands are cold just trying...

15:43 Snowing again after a short ride on the moto. Now it’s nap time, then family over for...

07:18 My brother is going to apply for the ROTC program at the U of M! # 07:23 (And also Metro...

Virtualization Security - Reading List

09:35 I just uploaded a ton of pictures from my Hawaii/Japan trip in February....

09:07 NWA reports $191m loss. Delta reports $6.4b loss. Who should be buying who? # 15:40...

16:10 In a preso on NAC. Presenter got Impulse SafeConnect for 1000 users for 2/3rds what Cisco...

09:34 I’ve received about 10 “LAST FINAL NOTICE” messages from GoDaddy that...

AHHHH!

08:32 OH: I gave that one up long ago when they kept changing names more than some truck drivers...

09:34 Compiling a list of the domains in our organization, then looking for a way to monitor for...

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never...”
—  Sir Ken Robinson

00:37 Was fighting with Yahoo! Pipes to try and find a cleaner, leaner, meaner way to combine...

Connect-back shell in four lines

From this blog post, you can create a connect-back shell with four BASH commands: $ exec...

3D Minneapolis/Saint Paul Bus Schedule

7:36: @GraemeThickins I mean, if advertisers need consultants to sort out the ad networks, how is...

09:10 This is a great write-up on the Storm worm: tinyurl.com/678oyz # 12:43 What fun! Go Google...

jth @rmsylte You just use the replicators for that. “Tea; Earl Grey; Hot.” ...

22:29 Also, ate a 1,000 year-old egg. Duck egg cured in lye. Not bad! #

06:47 Note to Twitter: Two-click interface to block, then dumping me back to main page = bad....

A Scary Web 2.0 Bedtime Story

jth Off to rack my beer into the secondary fermenter, then go clean the kitchen. Woo-hoo....

CO₂ captured to feed...

08:37 I’m definitely not sold on friendfeed. I signed up for another social network...

Why do I Twitter?

I’ve got a few friends that, once aware of how many different social sites I’ve got...

09:06 Don’t hurt the psychic clone babies! tinyurl.com/6xdabo # 09:33 DIY Steampunk Male...

07:25 Google Analytics code to track link-clicks on files/external sites does not work with my...

Sumday u will save lotsa ppl, meet sum...

08:24 MPR Future Tense today: potential for hardware back doors/vulnerabilities baked into...

Ethanol debate combusts

06:26 Off to the office. Hopefully remote printing worked. Then to Fergus Falls, then back home....

10:34 Hey #sectwits, what has worked for your organization to train your IT staff and admins to be...

#hashtags for Security Twits

Over the course of two months, Jennifer Legio (mediaphyter) has amassed a list of around 80...

18:38 A great idea for those of you who are in a relationship and like eating:...

Asakusa!

I just upped a few shots from our day in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. I’ve got lots more to churn...

The Anniversary Tradition

Wifey and I met [on a blind-date] on the third of the month. We married on the third, which also...

10:14 Breakfast today: Three egg omelets, organic/naturally raised bacon, sprouted rye with...

13:17 Working on aggregating data from the past year of assessments at about 35 colleges &...

12:10 Toying with the idea of providing some niche consulting on the side. # 13:11 I’ve...

Well, this will be interesting.

I’ve just revised the way my site here is set up. We’ll see how this goes. I just...

How do you increase the level of security in an org with 20,000 staff, 1,000 in IT (maybe), where...

Create a high-level security program, awareness training, security assessments. What else?

There’s a big proposed update to FERPA (higher ed data privacy). Reviewing now to determine...

I am always perplexed when a discussion of security best practices is met with resistance from...

Oh! We bought our tickets! San Fran for Independence Day!

Stopped at Mi Famiglia for dessert. Not impressed. They’re closed Mondays, but had a private...

Ham-hock soup for dinner, then put to take some snowy pictures.

Drive to Saint Cloud was nice and easy. Two inches already up here, wet & thick.

Informal learning Xplane’d

Time to watch “Melinda and Melinda” and some chocolate ice cream, then bed before...

Watching the Gophers try to eke out a win against Boston College.

Just bought an English Special Bitter kit from Northern Brewer and a heat-wrap for my carboy to...

Clarkson took out St. Cloud in NCAA hockey round 1. I expected SCSU vs. the other bracket-half...

Reminiscing about the good ol’ days, piggy-backing my way into financial institutions and...

Home-built point of sale. shudder.

Driving to curling and thinking about ways twitter could be useful to operational IT people.

Excuse me, *business units*. Departments are academic here.

About 3/4 through meeting the all the departments at one of the universities in the system.

Contemplating breakfast.

If you’re a fan of the Breeders, you’ll want to visit this site:...

The Breeders: record release party

Mmm, mmm. Sawatdee in St Cloud. Mouth status: burning.

In a meeting: “Proof Point [anti-spam] saved our Exchange server 20% of his time for other...

Had a burger and beers at McCann’s in St Cloud. Good food and good beer, plus 10 pool tables...

Off to St. Cloud for the rest of the week. Whoopee.

Potential trip to SFO for July with wifey. Excitin!

Now, why the hell can’t we get snow like this all winter? Why is it always the first and last...