fighting the lack of good ideas
I know lots of folks who like to have everything they share on one social network (eg Google+) magically appear on all others they use, too (eg Twitter & Facebook). While I sometimes share identical content out to several networks, I rarely want precisely the same thing going everywhere all the time. In fact, while I…
I love wearing a nice watch. Years ago, I would only wear a digital watch in 24hr mode. Then I switched to using my cell phone. Now I prefer an analog watch with metal band, and no numbers (ie hour indicators) on the face. The one I wear now is a Pulsar with a silver…
I’ve been attempting a “reactive”/”consumptive” reading experiment recently. The first book I tried it on was the Henry Petroski’s horrid To Engineer is Human (my review). That turned into a failure as I couldn’t stomach his writing, and so “reacting” to it was going to pretty much be an exercise in futility. So I’ve ditched…
We’ve gotten an update in our adoption process. Please go check out our [private] adoption blog. If you would like access to it, please leave a comment or email me.
I am the [proud] holder of subscriptions to several magazines. As part of my attempt to vary my reading materials, I get Wired, Inc, Fast Company, Western Horseman, and several others. However – I’ve discovered that I just don’t care about most of what is any given issue; there are times when more than half…
In follow-up to a recent blog post shared to me by my friend Steven, thinking about my aunt’s old practices, and comments from my wife and another friend, I’m engaging in a “consumptive”/”reactive” reading experiment wherein I am going to do something I haven’t done in a non-workbook book since my time at HVCC –…
For a long time I have been interested in real, actual, legitimate security. I am not a fan of the widespread use of security theater in our “post-9/11 world”, as Bruce Schneier calls it. Integrisure was supposed to be a real-world pentesting of “secure” facilities, a la Sneakers. In late 2000 / early 2001, I was working on…