tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50174472009-11-01T23:51:07.692-05:00Home pages are so... static...Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-39445967425651537582008-12-10T10:46:00.000-05:002008-12-10T10:56:19.222-05:00

I debated doing this last year, and this year I decided to go ahead with it. The concept is simple: Follow me on Twitter, and I'll donate $0.50 to Heifer International. On Dec 31, 2008, I'll make a donation for $0.50 x # followers up to a maximum of $2500.00. Why am I doing this? Two reasons. One is to share my semi-coherent ramblings with the world a little more. When I ask twitter a

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-6772207850110597612008-10-30T11:53:00.001-04:002008-10-30T11:53:41.453-04:00

Copy this sentence into your blog if you’re in a heterosexual marriage, and you don’t want it “protected” by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-58136520299381707152008-04-16T13:12:00.000-04:002008-04-16T13:56:39.846-04:00

I had the pleasure of serving on a jury in Fairfax County district court on April 14/15 2008 in the case of Erie Insurance vs. AquaLogic, Inc. It related to a fire which occurred at a residence in Ashburn, VA in September 2004.The plaintiff (Erie) alleged that the fire was caused by a faulty reef (fish) tank water chiller manufactured by the defendant. They further alleged that if other unsafe

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-33770634163962475792008-03-08T22:05:00.002-05:002008-03-08T22:07:13.500-05:00

03-08-2008 Marie for Easter Originally uploaded by pmhesse Marie drew this as a present for me. It's her with an Easter basket, and there are more Easter eggs hidden in the grass. The detail is amazing.The back of the photo had a bunch of black scribbles, with a red circle and slash through it. It says "NODrK" which was her attempt to spell "Not Dark". The circle-with-slash is pretty

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-2804148281892902342007-09-06T11:50:00.000-04:002007-09-06T11:51:16.738-04:00

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-24171578535917680742007-07-25T10:02:00.000-04:002007-07-25T15:26:39.141-04:00

I've installed Vista on 3 machines now, and on all 3 something I've done has caused the Vista driver cache to become corrupt. So, when plugging in a USB device which it should recognize automatically, it instead says "Driver not found" and gives me options to repair it. While you can tell it to browse for a location manually, and choose c:\windows to get around this, I have created a batch file

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1158604772553473972006-09-18T14:37:00.000-04:002006-09-18T14:39:33.226-04:00

OK, so after attempted posts elsewhere, below is my bookmarklet which launches the Pandora mini player in a separate window. To use, drag the link at the bottom of this post up into your bookmarks bar of your browser. I've tested it with IE6 and Firefox 1.5. Comment if you have suggestions or changes!Launch Pandora

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I have to share this tremendous saga of what I went through when I tried to upgrade the video driver on my wife's home computer. I ended up reinstalling Windows 4 times (mostly due to lack of sleep on my part) before I figured out a key fact:The Radeon 9100 IGP is only supported up until Catalyst 6.5. And, the "Motherboards with integrated graphics" page on ATI's site only includes Catalyst 6.4

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1155957866791827282006-08-18T23:24:00.000-04:002006-08-18T23:24:45.496-04:00

Firefox, bookmarklets, and hidden windows - The JavaScript Weblog: "javascript:setTimeout('x99.focus()',100);x99=window.open…"for my pandora bookmarklet -- which I need to fix and post here later.

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1155644494610970532006-08-15T08:21:00.000-04:002006-08-15T08:22:14.520-04:00

Configuring Outlook with IMAP: For whenever i have to recreate my Outlook shortcuts... The secret is "Outlook://Account.name.of.imap.server/Inbox"Start regedit, and go to the key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Microsoft Outlook\shell\open\commandThen, Modify the default key. It should be something like:"C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" Outlook:Inbox /recycleYou should already

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1154143173377546422006-07-28T23:19:00.000-04:002006-07-28T23:19:35.673-04:00

"In order to thank everyone who voted for us and made it possible for us to win this prestigious award, we are offering the WinRAR 3.51 single user license non upgradeable version this Sunday the 30th of July 2006 from 00:00 until 24:00 CET for absolutely FREE."read more | digg story

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1153857088537805152006-07-25T15:49:00.000-04:002006-07-26T10:40:54.556-04:00

This is mostly an attempt to get a technorati link from this blog to my SecurityMusings blog, to see if technorati trackbacks are working. I'm not really sure if this will work. This is only a test. Passwords are bad.

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1147284697626162032006-05-10T14:11:00.000-04:002006-05-10T14:11:37.646-04:00

How to Rip DVDs to Small AVI or MPG Formatted Files - WikiHow -- to help me with organizing my home collection of kid dvds

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1140920065309324622006-02-25T21:13:00.000-05:002006-02-25T21:16:22.753-05:00

Once upon a time, a young man at the tender age of 20 came up with a life plan which consisted of 13 guidelines. He kept a daily chart of these 13 virtues, and placed a dot next to the ones he failed to abide by each day for the rest of his life.His name was Benjamin Franklin. Here are his virtues. I think they're worth paying attention to.

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1138906411008369872006-02-02T13:53:00.000-05:002006-02-02T13:53:31.060-05:00

The development team of "America's Army" -- the U.S. Army's free video game for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux -- has arrived in Camp Guernsey for three days of hands-on training and demonstrations via the Green Up event. For a few days they've been given full access to some of the weapons, vehicles, training and tech used in their game.read more | digg story

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1138757712849584852006-01-31T20:35:00.000-05:002006-01-31T20:42:35.686-05:00

The cast of the show MythBusters chat about their pasts with ILM, talk about some Star Wars myths (Can you avoid freezing to death in a blizzard overnight by gutting a dead animal like a tauntaun and getting into its carcass?) and why R2-D2 is the perfect sidekick.Yes, the link I posted made the front page of digg and slashdot today. I've basically got nothing else to contribute to humanity at

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1137006263780111102006-01-11T14:04:00.000-05:002006-01-11T14:04:23.876-05:00

Got links to two different deal search engines; the roosster and clipfire. Will be using them soon.

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1136823774879638392006-01-09T11:22:00.000-05:002006-01-09T11:22:54.926-05:00

Another good site for me to read when I have a bit more free time: HOWTO: Be more productive

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1136583476183050212006-01-06T16:37:00.001-05:002006-01-06T16:37:56.183-05:00

Got to read Small Biz 101: Tips for Increasing Sales sometime early in this new year!

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1136583443926709732006-01-06T16:37:00.000-05:002006-01-06T16:37:23.956-05:00

I just happened upon this cool new blog, called parent hacks. I got there from lifehacker, so I suppose they deserve some credit too. Both of them are cool sites.

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1127262968769092952005-09-20T20:35:00.000-04:002005-09-20T20:37:41.426-04:00

This is a cool article about making tabbed interfaces in CSS. Also from the same site there is this article which is about making lists do what you want with CSS. The examples on that second page are slightly broken (they all show bullets even though they shouldn't) but the ideas are good and I'll be using them...

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1126547747010505912005-09-12T13:52:00.000-04:002005-09-12T13:55:47.016-04:00

If you know me (and if you didn't, I'd be quite surprised that you found my blog and are reading it...) you know what I do for a living. One of my coworkers sent me a link to a quite decent web page on the six dumbest ideas in computer security. Rather than paraphrase and butcher it, I'll just link it. It's a good bit of information that gives you an idea of why information security is often

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1125349188807202232005-08-29T16:56:00.000-04:002005-08-29T16:59:48.813-04:00

This blog posting has a very insightful view over how consumers are letting industry run us over. It is focused on the Verizon rollout of FIOS, but the point remains the same. Consumers aren't fighting as they should, and our congressional representatives aren't fighting on our behalf. I need to read this again when I get more time. Kudos, Mr. Frankston, for a good article.

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1124721456237144342005-08-22T10:32:00.000-04:002005-08-22T10:37:36.243-04:00

I'm not sure what to say after reading this post and this article from the New York Observer. It seems that Chris Hackett (who is currently out on bail from weapons charges stemming from what police found in his apartment after he blew half his face off creating other "art") has decided that the best way to express himself would be to make a fully functional suitcase bomb with a cellphone

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14133792513136780597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017447.post-1124463292265299362005-08-19T10:53:00.000-04:002005-08-19T10:54:52.270-04:00

Fast Company magazine has a quiz where you can find out if your boss is a psychopath. I'm proud to report that at least one of my employees scored me as "not a psychopath".

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