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Food on the Fourth

Jul082002

I hope everyone had a good Independence Day weekend. We grilled a lot of good food. Hamburgers, hot dogs, and bratwursts on Thursday; Corn and BBQ ribs on Friday. Along with homemade potato salad, deviled eggs, garden-grown tomatos, and other goodies, we had lots of good eatin’! Our fireworks were pretty much limited to sparklers. We had some bigger stuff, but when we fired one off, it was too loud, and we were concerned about … Continue reading →

What a Drag

Jul022002

Remember that boring project I mentioned about a month ago? I’m still working on it. And it’s still boring. I keep working on it and working on it, and sometimes it feels like nothing is getting done. Things are getting done, of course, but it’s all black-box, in-the-background kind of stuff that you can’t really see. Oh well. I now return you to your regularly scheduled web browsing while I return to my state of … Continue reading →

KLEZ Redux

Jun272002

A friend of mine asked me how I filter KLEZ in my Outlook mail client. I have two rules for this, and they look like so: Apply this rule after the message arrives with Content-Type: audio/x-midi; in the message header and which has an attachment delete it The second rule is the same, except the content type is “audio/x-wav” instead of “audio/x-midi“. You also might want to use the “permanently delete” action instead of the … Continue reading →

Sleazy KLEZ

Jun252002

Damn, I hate virii. Some customer of ours (that is to say, my employer) is infected with the KLEZ virus. They received it in an email that had my email address on it. Trying to explain to a customer that they actually got the virus from somebody else isn’t easy. But we should be able to convince them if they’ll just do a little reading We might help track down where they really got it … Continue reading →

Beam Me Up!

Jun242002

Did you know that today is International UFO Research Day? And did you know that Scotland (home of my ancestors) is a UFO hot spot? And have I ever mentioned that I have webbed toes? Amazing but true! I’ve created some forums for discussing webbed toes. Hopefully, this will be easier to manage than a bunch of comments on my blog posts.

Quick Update

Jun242002

Went to San Diego on business last week. Weather was great. Food was awesome. IBM Content Manager conference left a little to be desired (though I did learn a few things). We took the kids to see Lilo and Stitch yesterday. It was pretty good. Disney really knows how to pack a house. You have your cute little girl character to draw in all the girls, and you have your obnoxious, so-ugly-it’s-cute alien monster to … Continue reading →

McAfee Hypes New JPEG Virus

Jun142002

I saw this mentioned on iStockPhoto earlier, and now I just ran across the discussion on Slashdot. I think michael’s comments pretty much sum up my thoughts on the matter.

Fun in the Sun

Jun102002

Ah, the beach! The summer destination of numerous families across the land. We joined the coast-bound throngs this weekend, and visited the lovely St. Andrews State Park, near Panama City, Florida. Along with our own kids, we had our niece, Julie. And at the last minute, we convinced Julie’s parents, John and Melissa, to come along as well. The trip down on Saturday was punctuated with thundershowers, but weren’t about to let them get us … Continue reading →