Thought Flickrs

Time to take it out !!

2008-07-25T22:07:00.001-04:00

# for num in $(seq -w 200); do ssh n$num free -tm | grep Mem | awk '{print $2}';
  done | sort | uniq

Just joshin..phun intended.. !

BEST READ Evah !! The cat[DNS] is indeed out of the bag [INTERNET]

2008-07-22T19:48:00.001-04:00

HERES how it Works..minor edits to make it readable.

NOTE : I REALLY DON'T KNOW THE AUTHOR OF THIS FAB READ. THAT THE WAY IT HAPPENS IN THIS ZONE ..SO FAR ALL I KNOW ITS --YES, Halvar Flake

Backgrounder

Pretend for the moment that you know only the basic function of DNS — that it translates WWW.VICTIM.COM into 1.2.3.4. The code that does this is called a resolver. Each time the resolver contacts the DNS to translate names to addresses, it creates a packet called a query. The exchange of packets is called a transaction. Since the number of packets flying about on the internet requires scientific notation to express, you can imagine there has to be some way of not mixing them up.

Bob goes to to a deli, to get a sandwich. Bob walks up to the counter, takes a pointy ticket from a round red dispenser. The
ticket has a number on it. This will be Bob's unique identifier for his sandwich acquisition transaction. Note that the number will
probably be used twice — once when he is called to the counter to place his order and again when he's called back to get his sandwich. If you're wondering, Bob likes ham on rye with no onions.

If you've got this, you have the concept of transaction IDs, which are numbers assigned to keep different transactions in order. Conveniently, the first sixteen bits of a DNS packet is just such a unique identifier. It's called a query id (QID). And with the efficiency of the deli, the QID is used for multiple transactions.

VEXT0R's and HEX's

Until very recently, there were two basic classes of DNS vulnerabilities. One of them involves mucking about with the QID in
DNS packets and the other requires you to know the Deep Magic. First, QIDs. Bob's a resolver and Alice is a content DNS server. Bob asks Alice for the address of WWW.VICTIM.COM. The answer is 1.2.3.4. Mallory would like the answer to be 6.6.6.0.

It is a (now not) secret shame of mine that for a great deal of my career, creating and sending packets was, to me, Deep Magic. Then it became part of my job, and I learned that it is surprisingly trivial. So put aside the idea that forging IP packets is the hard part of poisoning DNS. If I'm Mallory and I'm attacking Bob, how can he distinguish my packets from Alice's? Because I can't see the QID in his request, and the QID in my response won't match. The QID is the only thing protecting the DNS from Mallory (me).

QID attacks began in the olden days, when BIND simply incremented the QID with every query response. If you can remember 1995, here's a workable DNS attack. Think fast: 9372 + 1. Did you get 9372, or even miss and get 9373? You win, Alice loses. Mallory sends a constant stream of DNS responses for WWW.VICTIM.COM. All are quietly discarded —- until Mallory gets Bob to query for WWW.VICTIM.COM. If Mallory's response gets to your computer before the legitimate response arrives from your ISP's name server, you will be redirected where Mallory tells you you're going.

Obvious fix: you want the QID be randomly generated. Now Alice and Mallory are in a race. Alice sees Bob's request and knows the QID. Mallory has to guess it. The first one to land a packet with the correct QID wins. Randomized QIDs give Alice a big advantage in this race. But there's a bunch more problems here:

If you convince Bob to ask Alice the same question 1000 times all at once, and Bob uses a different QID for each packet, you madethe race 1000 times easier for Mallory to win.
If Bob uses a crappy random number generator, Mallory can get Bob to ask for names she controls, like WWW.EVIL.COM, and watch how the QIDs bounce around; eventually, she'll break the RNG and be able to predict its outputs.

16 bits just isn't big enough to provide real security at the traffic rates we deal with in 2008.

Your computer's resolver is probably a stub. Which means it won't really save the response. You don't want it to. The stub asks a real DNS server, probably run by your ISP. That server doesn't know everything. It can't, and shouldn't, because the whole idea of DNS is to compensate for the organic and shifting nature of internet naming and addressing. Frequently, that server has to go ask another, and so on. The cool kids call this "recursion".

Responses carry another value, too, called a time to live (TTL). This number tells your name server how long to cache the answer. Why? Because they deal with zillions of queries. Whoever wins the race between Alice and Mallory, their answer gets cached. All subsequent responses will be dropped. All future requests for that same data, within the TTL, come from that answer. This is good for whoever wins the race. If Alice wins, it means Mallory can't poison the cache for that name. If Mallory wins, the next 10,000 or so people that ask that cache where WWW.VICTIM.COM is go to 6.6.6.0.

YET ANOTHER VEXT0R !!

Then there's that other set of DNS vulnerabilities. These require you to pay attention in class. They haven't really been talked about since 1997. And they're hard to find, because you have to understand how DNS works. In other words, you have to be completely crazy. Lazlo Hollyfeld crazy. I'm speaking of course of RRset poisoning.

DNS has a complicated architecture. Not only that, but not all name servers run the same code. So not all of them implement DNS in exactly the same way. And not only that, but not all name servers are configured properly.

I just described a QID attack that poisons the name server's cache. This attack requires speed, agility and luck, because if the "real" answer happens to arrive before your spoofed one, you're locked out. Fortunately for those of you that have a time machine, some versions of DNS provide you with another way to poison the name server's cache anyway. To explain it, I will have to explain more about the format of a DNS packet.

DNS packets are variable in length and consist of a header, some flags and resource records (RRs). RRs are where the goods ride around. There are up to three sets of RRs in a DNS packet, along with the original query. These are:

Answer RR's, which contain the answer to whatever question you asked (such as the A record that says WWW.VICTIM.COM is 1.2.3.4)

Authority RR's, which tell resolvers which name servers to refer to to get the complete answer for a question
Additional RR's, sometimes called "glue", which contain any additional information needed to make the response effective.

A word about the Additional RR's. Think about an NS record, like the one that COM's name server uses to tell us that, to find out where WWW.VICTIM.COM is, you have to ask NS1.VICTIM.COM. That's good to know, but it's not going to help you unless you know where to find NS1.VICTIM.COM. Names are not addresses. This is a chicken and egg problem. The answer is, you provide both the NS record pointing VICTIM.COM to NS1.VICTIM.COM, and the A record pointing NS1.VICTIM.COM to 1.2.3.1.

Now, let's party like it's 1995.

Download the source code for a DNS implementation and hack it up such that every time it sends out a response, it also sends out a little bit of evil — an extra Additional RR with bad information. Then let's set up an evil server with it, and register it as EVIL.COM. Now get a bunch of web pages up with IMG tags pointing to names hosted at that server.

Bob innocently loads up a page with the malicious tags which coerces his browser resolve that name. Bob asks Alice to resolve that name. Here comes recursion: eventually the query arrives at our evil server. Which sends back a response with an unexpected (evil) Additional RR.

If Alice's cache honors the unexpected record, it's 1995 —- buy CSCO! —- and you just poisoned their cache. Worse, it will replace the "real" data already in the cache with the fake data. You asked where WWW.EVIL.COM was (or rather, the image tags did). But Alice also "found out" where WWW.VICTIM.COM was: 6.6.6.0. Every resolver that points to that name server will now gladly forward you to the website of the beast.

FIXES and PATCHES TILL @008 .

It's not 1995. It's 2008. There are fixes for the attacks I have described.

Fix 1: The QID race is fixed with random IDs, and by using a strong random number generator and being careful with the state you keep for queries. 16 bit query IDs are still too short, which fills us with dread. There are hacks to get around this. For instance, DJBDNS randomizes the source port on requests as well, and thus won't honor responses unless they come from someone who guesses the ~16bit source port. This brings us close to 32 bits, which is much harder to guess.

Fix 2: The RR set poisoning attack is fixed by bailiwick checking, which is a quirky way of saying that resolvers simply remember that if they're asking where WWW.VICTIM.COM is, they're not interested in caching a new address for WWW.GOOGLE.COM in the same transaction.

Remember how these fixes work. They're very important.

PRESENT DAY.

Let's try again to convince Bob that WWW.VICTIM.COM is 6.6.6.0.

This time though, instead of getting Bob to look up WWW.VICTIM.COM and then beating Alice in the race, or getting Bob to look up WWW.EVIL.COM and slipping strychnine into his ham sandwich, we'regoing to be clever (sneaky).

Get Bob to look up AAAAA.VICTIM.COM. Race Alice. Alice's answer is NXDOMAIN, because there's no such name as AAAAA.VICTIM.COM. Mallory has an answer. We'll come back to it. Alice has an advantage in the race, and so she likely beats Mallory. NXDOMAIN for AAAAA.VICTIM.COM.

Alice's advantage is not insurmountable. Mallory repeats with AAAAB.VICTIM.COM. Then AAAAC.VICTIM.COM. And so on. Sometime, perhaps around CXOPQ.VICTIM.COM, Mallory wins! Bob believes CXOPQ.VICTIM.COM is 6.6.6.0!

Poisoning CXOPQ.VICTIM.COM is not super valuable to Mallory. But Mallory has another trick up her sleeve. Because her response didn't just say CXOPQ.VICTIM.COM was 6.6.6.0. It also contained Additional RRs pointing WWW.VICTIM.COM to 6.6.6.0. Those records are in-bailiwick: Bob is in fact interested in VICTIM.COM for this query. Mallory has combined attack #1 with attack #2, defeating fix #1 and fix #2. Mallory can conduct this attack in less than 10 seconds on a fast Internet link.

Xbox vs Apple TV.

2008-07-19T06:22:00.001-04:00

Had to capture this. Why ? the simplicty of the question and the answers open a whole dimension of thoughts , pros & cons etc. It goes like this..

"why does it take like an hour to get a rental on xbox live while apple tv can get it already right away?" - MG Siegler
One is an Apple product, one is a Microsoft product. Any questions? - Louis Gray

Yahoo Agrees to SELL -at $33

2008-07-17T19:27:00.001-04:00

"Just got the alert via Marc Hustvedt, co-founder of Tubefilter, on Twitter linking to a Search Engine Journal story reporting that Jerry Yang sent an e-mail out to shareholders that Yahoo is willing to sell to Microsoft at the price of $33 per share"

Source

Congratulations to our Millionth Terrorist!

2008-07-16T09:04:00.001-04:00

Good Catch by Schnier ...

The U.S terrorist watch list has hit one million names. I sure hope we're giving our millionth terrorist a prize of some sort.

Who knew that a million people are terrorists. Why, there are only twice as many burglars in the U.S. And fifteen times more terrorists than arsonists.

Is this idiotic, or what?

hi there! - We love u !!

2008-07-12T11:33:00.002-04:00

Berry Berry Cute !!

All the way from Holland , my Cousins daughter "Little Hobbit" and sends me a pic of her & little brother.

"I was babysitting and we (kees and I) had nothing to do... ;)"

Luv u back ..Cousins :)-

Trust me, I won't be around always, so sharing this today !!

2008-07-07T21:18:00.001-04:00

Trust me, I wont be around always, so this is the best time to share this !!

Hope you enjoy.. its awwsssssssssome !

| View | Upload your own

EXTREME DATA SET !! => Fwd: [Full-disclosure] Mrfetch Paul Carnes YouTube

2008-07-05T21:22:00.002-04:00

Not sure what this is !!

Brief : Its quite a data set for profile Analysis. Renderation needs to be confirmed.
Point: Perp has taken time to white out SSN = >"Social Security Number: 369-94-XXXX"
MyTake: Legit data set

/pd

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sock Puppet <socketpuppetsftw@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:19 PM
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Mrfetch Paul Carnes YouTube
To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk

Mrfetch (Paul Carnes) is a homosexual that believes the internet is his personal army. In a video online, MrFetch attempts to rally the "you-tubers" together and fight the Anonymous Internet. While completely impossible, Mr Fetch vlogs as if everything on the internets were "serious business". Even while stating the phrase "stand down" eleven times and claiming anon is burning down trailers, he still persisting that he is "just getting started, baby." He is spreading lies about anon, as flattering as they are, this can not continue to happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa_lfg1DhDc

Paul A. Carnes
Self-Declared Leader of "Anonymous"
screen name " Mrfetch "
Cell: (334) 663-4656
ADDRESS:
927 Honeysuckle Rd
Dothan Alabama 36305

Relatives:

Jo Ann Carnes
927 Honeysuckle Rd
Dothan, AL 36305-1916
334-673-4656

Gayle Carnes

104 CONCORD CIR
DOTHAN, AL 36301
(334) 702-2041

Robert M Carnes

900 OVERLOOK DR
DOTHAN, AL 36303
(334) 793-1330

Susan Carnes

115 MONTROSE CT
DOTHAN, AL 36305
(334) 702-8867

Name: KARNES, PAUL A Also Known As: CARNES, PAUL Social Security Number: 369-94-XXXX Address: 927 HONEYSUCKLE RD DOTHAN, AL 36305-1916 Address Updated: 11/15/2004 Previous Addresses: 517 COVEY CIR DOTHAN, AL 36305-7171 Address Updated: 10/1/2000 Telephone: (334) 663-4656 On File Since: 10/1/2000

ALABAMA MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION Owner Name: NATIONWIDE - COMPANY Owner Mailing Address: 4100 COLONNADE PKWY STE 150 BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243-3372 County: JEFFERSON Registrant: CARNES, PAUL A. - INDIVIDUAL Registrant Mailing Address: 12458 PAUL DUNCAN RD COTTONDALE, AL 35453-3512 County: TUSCALOOSA Co-Owner 1: SADISCO OF BIRMINGHAM - COMPANY PO BOX 101055 BIRMINGHAM, AL 35210-6055 County: JEFFERSON

TITLE INFORMATION ******

Original Title Date: 9/4/1997 Title Transfer Date: 9/4/1997

REGISTRATION INFORMATION ******

Original Registration Date: 3/17/1997 Registration Date: 3/17/1997 Expiration Date: 2/28/1998

PLATE INFORMATION ****

Plate Number: 63BY204 Plate State: ALABAMA Plate Type: PRIVATE Vehicle's Previous Plate Number: 63APS45 Vehicle's Previous Plate State: ALABAMA

VEHICLE INFORMATION ***

Vehicle Class Description: PASSENGER CAR/LIGHT TRUCK VIN: 1FAPP959XKW179630 Model Year: 1989 Manufacturer: FORD Model: ESCORT 4D Vehicle Series: LX Color: UNKNOWN Vehicle Weight: 2371 LBS. Search Results: 4 records found in our database

Other Information:

Status: Single Orientation: Gay Age: 23 Zodiac Sign: Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 19) Ethnicity: Latino / White Hispanic Religion: Christian Baptist - other Children: Someday Education: In college Occupation: HaterAlert.com

paulcarnes.com has address 64.202.189.170 paulfetch.com has address 68.178.232.100 hateralert.com has address 68.178.232.100

Emails: mrpaulcarnes@yahoo.com mrpaulcarnes@aol.com playboikid85@yahoo.com

History:
Chipola College Theater
Wedding Planner
Scientology Enthusiast
Baptist
Gay Homosexual Male

Resources:

http://www.youtube.com/user/mrfetch
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=PaulFetch
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Mrfetch
http://partyvan.info/index.php/Paul_Fetch
http://www.rbcdothan.org/ Ridgecrest Baptist Church
http://www.chipola.edu/ Chipola College
http://www.mh.alabama.gov/

I'm an addict - need support !!

2008-06-30T13:42:00.001-04:00

I am an addicting and trying to quit. I am micro blogging my de-tox experience on Friend Feed.

Kindly drop by and support my recovery :)-

The animal in me- will always LUV U !!

2008-06-28T08:52:00.005-04:00

This is an awesome clip. I remember my old dog did the same thing, when I visited her after 2 years. Check it out.

True love begets true love !

you can order the documentary on amazon

Rocket Boom Sold !!

2008-06-26T23:47:00.001-04:00

This is news, in it's most precise, concise and in pristine condition :)-

"Printed, signed, notarized, scanned, emailed, countersigned, received, printed, filed." - Andrew Baron

Thread

Who am I and what I do ?

2008-06-26T01:17:00.001-04:00

Funny, this statement of Hugh's seriously caught me off balance.

" @peterdawson I've ben seeing you around for about 4 years. Besides obsessing about A-Listers, I'm not sure what it is you actualy do."

First response..just google me. But, on second thought its totally like me. My life is a partially opened book. Additional info of me can be garnished from [ My Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin | MyWiki ] Oh yes don't forget to Google me (PeterDawson) for more information !! . :)-

Methinks, if you really wanted to something about what I do or who I am, you would have at least done some due diligence research on your part too.

What I actually do, is nobodies business and mine alone. If I wanted to share something in the social web it would be out there. Just because we chat on Twitter, friendfeed and other media, does not mean that I need to open my professional and personal stuff to the world and to you.

Respect and Trust is earned and not freely given. Thats a philosophy of mine. So there, what's the next question ?

A Shel vs Loren classic !

2008-06-25T21:24:00.001-04:00

This comes from this thread. It pretty much puts the whole kruffle in order !

"remember high school when the bully started mocking one of the academic team and the guy on the academic team decided to not ignore it, but kept bringing it up, so the bully kept on going? Same diff. Just keep walking down the hall and pretend you see nothing. - Cyndy

A Shel vs Loren classic !

2008-06-25T21:18:00.001-04:00

Time well wasted - I cuss Hugh Macleod

2008-06-25T16:59:00.001-04:00

I Don't believe this, I did it again !!

Ok somewhere in 2004/05 Hugh Macleod posted his "HOW TO BE CREATIVE" manifestio on Changethis.com. I had downloaded, printed a copy and read it in one sitting. Thereafter, I must have kept this copy and during my last move had placed it into a box for storage. This afternoon, while cleaning up, I found this buried within a box of my hard copies amongst the Tom Peters (TIB series), Seth Godin copies and a bunch of other hard copies.

Trust me, in the middle of packing, cleaning the last thing on my mind is reading his Manifesto. But guess what, "Its ok to be a sheep , as long as you are a cool sheep" cartoon catches my eye. Oh well, darn Hugh, I get hooked once over again. I spent like an hour once browsing thru the book again !!

Now me calls this TIME WELL WASTED by Hugh Macleod. Refreshing read. Can't wait for his new book !!

Ok back to the grind :)-

11 things kids will not learn in school

2008-06-21T10:52:00.001-04:00

Oh this is good wisdom that Steve , (a Black Ops' man for MSFT) posts on Bill Gates and things that kids will never learn in school

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault; so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

I still remember reading his book about and very few people realize that he finally got awarded his Harvard degree in 2007. Thats a long way off from the fall of 1973. Here's an infonuggut - While Microsoft was growing, in the first five years, he personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit. :)-

Failing is inevitable !!

2008-06-07T08:30:00.001-04:00

I got this classic pointer from Niniane post.

"You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." .

Take time to read J K Rowling commencement speech: "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination," at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Medical Humor - US vs Rest of World !!

2008-06-06T07:15:00.001-04:00

With this sort of medical breakthroughs I wonder how long our human race can survive!!!!!

An Israeli doctor says "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks."

A German doctor says "That is nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.

A Russian doctor says "In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another,and have them both looking for work in two weeks."

The Texas doctor, not to be outdone, says "You guys are way behind, we recently took a man with no brains out of Texas, put him in the White House for eight years, and now half the country is looking for work."

black swan effect -mortgage crisis !

2008-06-05T21:22:00.001-04:00

Francine has a wonderful post about her friend. Scott Coles was one of the largest private lender in the Arizona mortgage market space.

Due to the pressure of the the mortgage crisis , he apparently committed suicide yesterday. May he rest in Peace. My heart goes out to his wife and three children.

As he was a a high profile CEO, this gets a lot of news and traction in the blogs. This made me think- how many other's out there are doing the same thing, but just because they are a common person, it may go unreported and will not have this amount of exposure. Think of about it, 10-15% of the American Population is going thru this crisis.

The Amercian dream has become nightmare. We are just seeing the tip of the iceberg.

top 10 technolgiees

2008-05-31T11:27:00.001-04:00

via the Business of IT

"The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years:"

Multicore and hybrid processors
Virtualization and fabric computing
Social networks and social software
Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms
Web mashups
User Interface
Ubiquitous computing
Contextual computing
Augmented reality
Semantics

I think that Fabric computing is still in infancy and will suddenly gain traction - Fast !

--
Peter Dawson

"This message is printed on Recycled Electrons."
Thought Flickr's the Home of Peter Dawson
http://peterdawson.blogspot.com

Ph: 905 270 0574
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Tribute to my Grandma !!

2008-05-29T21:07:00.002-04:00

This is a tribute to my Grandma who was from Burma. She was born on June 5th 1889. She died shortly after giving birth to my Dad. She was a brave woman. This is the first time I am sharing our story in public and my thoughts about my Grandma

I can't even imagine a Lady in those day (let alone today !), who could travel from Burma to Toronto and complete a PhD. Yep, those days is circa 1908 !! Think of Traveling from Rangoon to Toronto by ship and then down the St.Lawrence river by boat ? (remember that the Titanic sunk in 1912 , therefore her trip was 4 year's before that event !) But just think of it , How long would that journey take - Rangoon to Toronto ?

After landing in Toronto entering McMaster's, she completed a double PhD in Divinity and English Language. (not sure if it was double Phd -- but even a single doctorate is pretty tough !! )

I wonder what type of hardships she would have faced in her days. She must have been a pretty smart and brave Woman to have done all all that and endured it here in Canada. Remember in 1908, according to my calculations, my grandma would have only been 19 years old.Over and above all that she was Burmese, of a colored ethnic background, away from home, change of tropical weather to northern (Canadian) weather, food and cultures changes etc. It must have been pretty tough and she must have had heck'a strong focus and willpower.

With all this changes and hardship she managed to complete her studies and go back and teach in the University of Rangoon !!

At times, I feel that I am truly an unworthy grandson. Need to better myself. Anyway, my Granma B'day was coming up and I thought I'll share this story and thoughts with my readers. Oh BTW, I am wearing a Burmese Lungi and writing this post :)-

Below is an email thread from a long ago when I did some Genealogical research of my Grand'ma !!

=======================================================================
-----Original Message-----
From: Canadian Baptist Archives [mailto xxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:14 PM
To: Dawson, Peter D
Subject: RE: search for Alumni Photos/Info

Glad to have a happy customer.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dawson, Peter D [mailto:xxxxxx ]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:47 PM
To: 'Canadian Baptist Archives'
Subject: RE: search for Alumni Photos/Info

Dear Dr. Steinacher,

I was utterly astonished when your reply popped into my inbox !! Words fail me, when I try to express my sincere thanks for the heartwarming information that you have given me. Your kind assistance, in my genealogical endeavors is really appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to research and cull all these details for me.

Yes, I understand that I will need to contact Mr. Phil Pearson for further research on this subject. With the details, you have so kindly given me, makes it possible for me to continue research on this subject.

Once again, thank you !!!
Sincerely and best regards,

.pd
->-----Original Message-----
->From: Canadian Baptist Archives [mailto:xxxxxx ]
->Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 1:10 PM
->To: Dawson, Peter D
->Subject: RE: search for Alumni Photos/Info
->
->
->Dear Peter,
->
-> Thank you for you for genealogical inquiry. The Canadian Baptist
->Archives is a ministry maintained by the Baptist Convention of Ontario
->and Quebec, the Baptist Union of Western Canada and McMaster Divinity
->College. The Archives' primary mandate is to serve these
->constituencies.
->
-> Our resources are limited, so we are not able to pursue genealogical
->inquiries, even on a fee-for-service basis. Normally we do not even
->begin to search, but the information you provided made possible a very
->quick search. There is an "Enrollment Book" for McMaster University,
->which contains information about all incoming students while the
->University was still in Toronto (i.e. until the fall of 1929). Number
->996 is a "Sarah Margaret Isaac"[sic], who entered on 28 September
->1908. She had been born in Rangoon on 5 June 1889. Her father, A.C.
->Isaac of 43 Phayre St., Rangoon, Burma, is listed as "pensioned"; both
->she and her parents' religion is listed as "Episcopalian". Upon
->entrance, she held a first class matriculation certificate from the
->College of Preceptors, London (presumably England), having studied at
->"Convent, Rangoon" and "Morris College", also of Rangoon.
->
-> If you would like to hire a researcher to conduct further inquiries
->for you (there is not a strong likelihood of finding out a great deal
->more), I am happy to provide you with the name of someone approved by
->the Archives, Mr.
->Phil Pearson. He is a former student at the Divinity College and is
->thoroughly familiar with our collection. He is allowed access to our
->stacks, something not normally extended to anyone except our direct
->employees. He is an independent contractor and you will have to
->negotiate rates directly with him. Should you wish to avail yourself
->of his services, he may be contacted at:
-> Phil Pearson

[...snipped Phil's email ]

->
->
->Yours sincerely,
->
->
->Dr. C. Mark Steinacher
->Acting Director
->Canadian Baptist Archives
->
->-----Original Message-----
->From: Dawson, Peter D [mailto:xxxxxx ]
->Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:30 PM
->To: 'xxxxxx
->Subject: search for Alumni Photos/Info
->Importance: High
->
->
->Hello,
->
->This email address and was given to me for a prospective contact point
->at the McMasters, College of Divinity, Archives Dept.
->
->Could you please let me know if it is possible to find more
->information regarding my Grandmother. All we know is that during the
->period (circa
->1912-18)
->or somewhere there about's, our Grandmom,travelled from a country
->called as Burma (now Myanmar) and studied at McMasters'. We believe
->that she Graduated in Literature and Philopsy. (AS the family 'dinner
->table'
->stories go). She
->was the first Lady (fr a Foreign County) who graduated from McMasters
->and she was the only lady in her class.
->
->Anyway, most of the family documents were lost during the
->WW11 so whatever
->I am saying is just from gray matter. Grandma's name was Sarah
->Margaret Dawson (nee Isaacs) I dunna if she was registered as Sarah
->Margaret or Margaret Sarah or with Isaacs/Dawson.. its pretty fuzzy
->information that I am working on.
->
->Kindly let me know what you find and if I am not addressing this to
->the correct contact point, please do let me know whom I can contact.
->
->Looking forward to hearing from you.
->Thanking you in advance,
->Sincerely
->
->.pd
->
->Peter Dawson

"Message from Earth to Mar's" - Has my name one it !!!

2008-05-26T17:50:00.001-04:00

A Long Long time ago (circa 2006), I got a tidbit to NASA and Project Phoneix. Being an early adopter and fast mover, I registered myself. The outcome of that effort was blogged here and here

So yesterday, was a small milestone of only 250, 000 people, whose name was on the small DVD of Project Phoneix. Here's an except of the notification email :)-

[..]

Don't forget that you are a part of this adventure…part of the story of space exploration!

As part of The Planetary Society's Messages from Earth program, your name — along with a quarter million others from around the world — is now on the surface of Mars. Landing with you on the disk is Visions of Mars, a treasure trove of literature and art — from classic works by Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury to Orson Welles' radio retelling of "The War of the Worlds" to a special audio recording of Carl Sagan delivering a message to the future.

The story of space exploration is being written everyday.

Fifty years ago we couldn't have told this story, but 50 years from now our names and thoughts...those Messages from Earth that we have sent...will be part of the story — part of the permanent record of space exploration.

[..]

its great to be part of the 'permanent record of space exploration" Thanks to Susan for turning me on :)-

The Internet FAQ from 2085

2008-05-21T19:24:00.001-04:00

Its been a long time sine I had a good laugh. Philipp's post had me in splits. In short , this is how the internet will look in 2085 . Heres a couple of my fav's

What were world web sites?

A so-called world web site consisted of an address of its owner to locate their physical business location, as well as other miscellaneous transmitting of human information that was considered important at the time. The protocol used to decode the information was called hypertext, and as its standards changed quickly over the years, it is impossible to decode most of the information contained within.

What alternative information transfer technologies accompanied the internet?

The internet was only one of many transfer technologies. Equally popular at the time were the Ipod, also called Phone, a device to record and emit copies of the human voice, as well as the so-called Pongmachine which showed an animated bright shape on a dark background.

I am interested to find out more about humans, where can I see them?

You can find representative entities of the human species in most local zoos. Visitors of model version 4.55 and lower receive special discounts; while the brain of humans is likely incapable of experiencing pain, please do not feed or break them.

Take time to read the full post !!

Pointless Post

2008-05-20T22:50:00.001-04:00

On FD List this come's to me

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Enjoy reading that on your f*cking blackberry (another pretentious device that is out of control).

Change- Des Moines, Iowa !!

2008-05-20T22:48:00.001-04:00

Watched the speech and realized that Obama has given one of his greatest speeches. Not his best, but differently up there. High up there !

Change ?? yep its happened- Security Detail has changed for him. This is the highest watermark given to a candidate on this campaign trail.
...... and this simply implies that across ALL internal bureaucracies, he has been slated as being the nominee. Common Consensus. PERIOD.

He's has become one of America's next top "Asset's" I wish him the best. We certainly need CHANGE