I finally got around to building a server space in my garage, after hemming and hawing about it for years. I’ve got a cat 5e cable run from my office to a jack in the garage (cable and jack stapled to the wall, definitely not EIA/TIA spec…)
Fry’s has 8-port 10/100 ethernet switches for [...]

I found a neat little photo site — snapclub. There’s a mailing list and interesting thumbnail display, and it seems like it could be refreshingly straightforward. Just pictures.
After getting caught up in film speeds, apertures, shutter speeds, fill flash, and such, it’s nice to go out and shoot snapshots - just catch what’s going on [...]

I watched startup.com this weekend, and it really struck a chord in me. I worked in SOMA around Y2K, and while the movie was set in Silicon Alley in NY, the movie did a good job of portraying the scene out west - the frantic pace, the newness of it all, the relative “under-the-radar” [...]

I’ve gotten into a morning routine - get up, go to the office, check my junkmail folder, research last night’s SPAM collection, and forward them all to the relevant abuse@ email addresses and to uce@ftc.gov.
ISPs don’t care anymore if they’re supporting SPAMmers - SPAMmers are paying customers, after all. Corporate ethics?
I’ve forwarded 30+ pieces [...]

G3

I saw a great review of the upcoming Canon Powershot G3. Seeing this makes me glad I didn’t bite the bullet and get a G2…
I’ve been shooting all of my pictures digitally recently. I like being able to go direct to computer instead of scanning the pictures in, and digital images seem [...]

Apache Exploits

More big news on the security front — this time it’s an Apache-SSL worm instead of Yet Another IIS exploit. Luckily, you’re running an open-source web server, so you can patch your code, test it against Proof-of-Concept code and verify that everything’s working, right?

PS

I finally bit the bullet and got Photoshop 7.0. I’m very impressed - the unsharp mask and auto-level tools make pictures from a $20 digicam look good. Yet another reason to stay in the 21st century (see my previous post) and get a faster computer; with 384M of RAM and a Celeron 533, Photoshop [...]