I love Delta and Delta loves me

I flew to and from Charlotte on Saturday. Sitting in the Charlotte airport Saturday afternoon, waiting for my return flight, a storm was raging on in Atlanta that resulted in the cancellation of my flight. I didn't know this however. Me and my Rubik's Cube were

Business Suckage

I wonder what shape our economy would be in if fewer companies were run by idiots. Let me back up a bit. I have a laptop with my life's work on it and no shortage of personal information and consequently I employ a whole-disk-encryption solution. The PGP web

VPN

I spent pretty much all of last night trying to get Snowy Lepoard's built-in Cisco IPSec VPN support to work with my shiny new Cisco RV042 router, but it turns out (as far as I can tell) that the authentication modes supported by OS X do not overlap

If you knew him like I do....

A police officer in Denver was found not-guilty of using excessive force on a bicyclist after slamming his face into the ground (here). You'd think that the video evidence would be enough to convince the nine (?) dumb people who couldn't figure out how to get out

A Moral Obligation

What is my moral obligation in this situation? I recently ordered a Dell Inspiron 537s (which isn't a laptop, despite its name) which is scheduled to arrive tomorrow and on which I intend to run linux so that I have a production-like environment on which I can get

What a Manager Says vs What a Manager Means

My favorite is the first one about the "team player" thing. Why must you have an emotional attachment to the job? I think the parallel that statement implies is that of a sports team. With players being paid millions of dollars. For that amount of money you can

Managing Programmers

Well, the article is about "geeks", and that can take many facets, but I read "programmer" everywhere it reads "geeks". You can do the same. So, this article is the single best summary of the peculiarities of managing IT people. It's amazing.

Click to Flash

ClickToFlash is quite possibly my favorite browser plugin ever. I don't actually use many (any?) browser plugins (besides this one), so I guess the competition wasn't very stiff. But it's still amazing. Embedded Flash stuff now shows up as a rectangle. Just click on

Vanity

I registered my new car and I got a vanity plate. My first vanity plate. The answer to the question of which vanity plate I got should be obvious. I'll post a picture after I receive it ... "within ninety days".

Where Is Curtis

In anticipation of my upcoming Grand Canyon and Collegiate Range trips, I dusted off a couple XSLT books and got to work on whereiscurtis.com. (1) I modified the Perl script (which checks IMAP mailboxes for FindMeSpot locator messages) to ultimately dump out an XML file of the last ten