tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63217752009-02-23T10:48:56.312-05:00Bryan's personal Web siteBryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-72755070363441564912008-09-04T13:32:00.003-04:002008-09-04T13:40:52.149-04:00

First up, Chase Bank.  I've had this account with Chase for eleven years, and this is the first time I've had any sort of problem...I made a somewhat larger-than-normal money transfer on my Chase card a couple of weeks ago, and Chase flagged the transaction as possible fraud and made me answer a handful of personal questions (with two different people) to verify my identity and prove that the

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-39396857920541371122008-07-24T12:32:00.003-04:002008-07-24T13:45:17.320-04:00

I like the print version of eWeek magazine. It's the only tech industry periodical that I actually read from cover to cover. I usually start on the inside back cover, though, 'cause Spencer F. Katt is always good for a chuckle.Their e-mail newsletter subscriptions, however, are another story. I don't really want tech news in my e-mail. I use RSS feeds to go get what I want when I want it, and I

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1147802190825189822006-05-16T13:45:00.000-04:002006-05-16T13:56:30.836-04:00

We closed on our new house yesterday, so it finally belongs to us (and the bank)! We'll be moving stuff in a few boxes at a time all this week, with a final move of big furniture on Saturday. Our old (current) house is still for sale. If you are looking for a new house in Louisville, make an offer and mention this note, and we'll give you a $1000.00 discount! :-)

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1145837751688451272006-04-23T19:59:00.000-04:002006-04-23T20:15:51.743-04:00

Since I'm using Flock now, I realized my blog CSS style was a bit off, and I've made some changes to fix how it looks in browsers other than IE. Getting page layouts working properly across all of the browsers that claim to be "XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 compliant" can be a real pain still, especially when you use divs instead of tables. I think this is working better, now, though. My sidebar can still

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1145507528427061192006-04-19T23:38:00.000-04:002006-04-23T19:52:52.746-04:00

Stemming from my new obsession with listening to TWiT Podcasts at work, I have been exposed to a lot of new stuff in the last couple of weeks. These are some of my favorites:PandoraThis site allows you to listen to streaming audio that is customized just for you. To start, you just give it a name of an artist or a song, and it then starts to play songs related to your choice. As it plays, you

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1142288919388158452006-03-13T17:28:00.000-05:002006-03-13T17:28:39.436-05:00

Zfone has peaked my interest recently. Phil Zimmermann updated his site on Saturday announcing that a public beta of his Zfone will be released "in a few days". While this really isn't something I can see myself using a lot, I definitely want to try it out. This could be the beginning of the end for wire-tapping laws, or at least for their usefulness.

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1139628104217866262006-02-10T22:15:00.000-05:002006-02-10T22:21:44.216-05:00

Okay, I'm satisfied with the layout and colors for now. Sypher.org will look like this... for at least another month. :)

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1139378518690975412006-02-08T00:46:00.000-05:002006-02-08T01:01:58.703-05:00

I'm working on a new layout, if you haven't noticed. I know it's not working like it should right now. Hopefully, I'll get it working under Firefox, IE6, IE7, and Opera very soon. Once it works right in all four of those browsers, however, it'll probably be time for me to start on a new design. :-)Speaking of browsers... I keep hearing other techno-literate people proclaiming that everyone

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1139377507419362382006-02-08T00:39:00.000-05:002006-09-01T07:48:41.460-04:00

I've been thinking about security a lot lately: physical security of our new house, physical security of my new office (I'm looking for new space, know of any?), login security for my computers, and security of my personal information and files on my computers. For simplicity, I'd love a solution that would help me secure all three things: my doors, my computers, and my files... all with one

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1138120227316244172006-01-24T10:45:00.000-05:002006-01-24T11:30:27.350-05:00

I've seen a bunch of silly stuff recently on the Web, but this guy passed the silly mark and went to the "so silly I have to write about it" mark. Apparently, this is from the creator/owner of StatCounter.Why xhtml valid code is not validating as w3c valid code - why?It can't! If you want w3c valid code then tick the w3c valid code box in the code generation page. If you want xhtml valid code

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1136429489657047402006-01-04T21:10:00.000-05:002006-01-04T21:51:29.700-05:00

The coming of a new year and a new month for Flickr "pros" to upload their next two gigabytes of photos seems to be overwhelming the popular photo-sharing site. Just like many of the other new paid subscribers to the site, I have been frantically uploading, "tagging", and organizing my 3000+ photos. This tidal wave of new photos seems to be causing some problems on the Flickr servers, though,

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1136299620597826792006-01-03T09:41:00.000-05:002006-01-03T10:46:17.693-05:00

Who's Your Happy Bunny?brought to you by Quizilla

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1135202191735130622005-12-21T16:43:00.000-05:002005-12-21T17:00:28.066-05:00

I have decided to replace the CommunityServer running on Sypher.org with Blogger and Flickr. CommunityServer looks like it will be a great tool eventually, but the combination of Blogger and Flickr are a great tool available right now! I have already moved around 1700 of my photos to the Flickr site--which is all of my photos taken from June 2004 to today. I'm currently in the process of tagging

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1134531069392094682005-12-13T22:20:00.000-05:002005-12-13T22:31:09.403-05:00

I was shopping on the Web and came across a very interesting error message:Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user: 'jmedicat@localhost' (Using password: YES) in /home/jmedicat/public_html/e-footwear/open_sql.php on line 6Error connected MySQL!Access denied for user: 'jmedicat@localhost' (Using password: YES)Since this is the kind of thing that gets people fired, I won't tell you which

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1134003314511003882005-12-07T19:55:00.000-05:002005-12-07T20:01:26.786-05:00

Backside at an AngleI've uploaded a few photos our our new house being built to both Sypher.org and Flickr.com. There are a few more of them on Sypher.org since I'm limited to 20MB per month on Flickr.I'm used to hosting my own photo gallery, but Flickr looks promising as a stand-alone photo gallery site. I am going to play around with it for a while. If it turns out to be something I really like

Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16693525146787661053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321775.post-1073961524285984142004-01-12T21:32:00.000-05:002004-01-12T21:39:05.110-05:00

Okay, I've had journals and news on my web sites for more than a decade now, and I've never needed a third-party tool to do so, but I've been very curious about this Blogger thing, so I've finally decided to try it out. I may like the way this works and stick with it for a long time, or I might just like a couple of things about it and use it to help spruce up my hand-rolled journal, or I may

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