Archive for September, 2004

SecurityFocus HOME News: Click here to become infected

Friday, September 24th, 2004

SecurityFocus HOME News: Click here to become infected
Summary: never “click here to be removed” in spam messages. At the least, you will get added to other spam lists when they confirm your email address is active. At the worst, you might infect your computer with a virus or spyware. Click the link [...]

If America were Iraq, What would it be Like?

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

Informed Comment : 09/01/2004 - 09/30/2004
The article linked above is a criticism of the war/rebuilding process in Iraq. I have a couple problems with it. First, right at the beginning, Juan does some simple multilplication to arrive at some body count numbers. That sets the tone for the rest of the article; [...]

SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: Academia Headaches

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: Academia Headaches
A very interesting article on information security at colleges and universities. This is the kind of stuff I (and my coworkers) deal with on a day to day basis.
cw

me wife be a saucy sea urchin!

Sunday, September 19th, 2004

Arr! Talk like a bloody pirate day has set sail as type like a bloody pirate day for Bloody William Roberts. I did make me wife buckel her swash and take the pirate name test. Here be the name of me mermaid:
Her pirate name is:
Red Mary Rackham
Passion is a big part of [...]

arr!

Friday, September 17th, 2004

Seeing that we are coming up on National Talk Like Pirate Day, I took some advice from Dan and took the Pirate Name Test. You’d best take it too, lest ye wind up in Davy Jone’s locker!
My pirate name is:
Bloody William Roberts
Every pirate lives for something different. For some, it’s the open sea. For [...]

big kid

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004

Nope. Not a Curtis post
The title refers to myself. I have been eagerly waiting for the release of Madden NFL 2005 for the PC as football season has drawn nigh. Those gaming systems (PS2, XBox) had the game released in August. Lowly PC users have had to wait through [...]

some scattered thoughts

Saturday, September 4th, 2004

Sorry the drivel has been less than daily recently (though, judging from the comments, I am talking to myself). That doesn’t mean that I haven’t been doing stuff - quite the opposite, really!
Christian the Student 2.0
Class has been good. We are just talking about basic stuff that I already knew about now, but [...]

student

Wednesday, September 1st, 2004

I am a student again. Officially. I have signed up for CIS210 Programming and Data Structures I. It is a course that is taught using C++ as the language, so that will be mostly new territory to me. I tried teaching myself C++ shortly after learning PHP and failed pretty miserably. [...]