September 2009
Crickets
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Birthday Card Idea
Andre M. is my partner’s nephew. He turns 15 on Monday.
He is a budding visual artist, and I wanted to make something which would be nice to look at as well as feed his own creativity.
I mentioned this idea to my partner and she loved it, so I will share it with all of you as well.
All weekend, whenever I see the number 15 (or 1 and 5) I am going to take a photo and use these photos to...
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Why You Don't Have A Job, Grouch →
An article from a local alt-media website explaining how HR recruiters use “Automated Tracking Systems (ATS) to perform electronic queries for candidates.”
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Surveillance Thoughts
I wasn’t sure what to title this.
Today BoingBoing pointed me to an article in the NYT titled A Casualty of the Technology Revolution: ‘Locational Privacy’ which was an interesting read.
Combine this with the fact that last night I watched the 2007 movie LOOK, and I have been thinking about surveillance cameras today. I’ve been looking over my shoulder, and up at the ceiling, all...
An Interesting Problem
Mainly notes for me
I got called today because our web filter (evil!) hadn’t updated since August 6th. The filter runs in non-routeable IP space, and accesses the Internet through a Squid web proxy. The problem was that the box had been updated and the proxy would not start. There was a cryptic error message saying: Cannot open HTTP Port, and little else.
After looking at sudo netstat...
“Sex offender lists have made far more information readily available to the...”
– Abduction Case Shows Limits of Sex Offender Alert Programs - NYTimes.com
