My current contract runs out at the end of the year, so I updated and activated my online resume on Sunday.  The initial response was rather overwhelming.  Most headhunters are very professional and do their job.  Some, however, are idiots.  I’d like to address these few idiots.
Read my fucking resume, you moron! Where the [...]

So Russia has attacked and invaded another country.  Where are the peace marches?  Oh, that’s right, they are only against the United States going after evil bastards.  They have no problems with another country attacking a peaceful neighbor.
So where are the United Nations resolutions?  Oops, they aren’t Israel.  So no resolutions.
I’ve done more than the [...]

I was at a restaurant with some friends and because I had mentioned that I thought the waitress was hot, they started chatting it up with her in an effort to break the ice.  When the waitress mentioned her name was Miranda, I tried to come up with a witty response about her name and [...]

Once again, Google has shown their contempt for the American military and has failed to provide a doodle for Memorial Day.  This is not an accidental omission.  Even if someone is against the Iraqi war, it’s no excuse for not honoring Fallen Heroes of past conflicts such as the brave men who gave the ultimate [...]

I finally settled on a new cell phone after the fiasco with the LG Voyager.  Last weekend I picked up the HTC Kaiser, rebranded as the AT&T Tilt.  Calling it a simple cell phone is a great injustice.  It’s a hand held computer with a cell phone built in.  It’s major down-side is it’s Windows [...]

My contract job at Google ends on Monday.  This is not a surprise since it was not a contract-to-hire position.  I’m going to miss working there.  It’s a great place to work.  The free meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) meant I never had to buy groceries - just snacks.  What I won’t miss is the [...]

Sometimes you run across a blog post so imbecilic that a right proper flaming is called for.  Instead of wasting any effort on crafting the perfect high-temperature reply, I put together a script to do the job automatically.  So without further adieu, The Flame-O-Matic.  Give it a click and enjoy.  One minor problem, it occasionally [...]

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Myspace and other community websites have been making the news lately due to the perceived danger of online predators.  While I personally believe the danger is exaggerated by the Main Stream News, the fact is, there is some danger as proven by a several recent rapes and abductions that were the result of teenagers meeting [...]

How come I can be shown a long and complicated sequence of steps to perform on a server just once and I remember it, but when my wife asks me to transfer the laundry from the washer to the dryer I forget during the 10 minute drive home?

I have, in front of me, the signed employment contract for my new job, which I plan to fax back to the company tomorrow morning.  My new title will be Senior Linux System Administrator and my salary will go up by two and a half times what I am currently making.
I am horribly underpaid in [...]

I’ve deactived the anti-spam module because it killed some legitimate posts.  From now on, the first time you post a comment it will be held for moderation.  After the first time, assuming it is approved, comments will go live immediately.

One of the servers I manage has been getting slammed hard by ssh brute-force dictionary attacks.  There are typically a few thousand such attempts each day.  One particularly bad day saw 122,000 attempts.  I got tired of seeing this in my security logs, so today I did something about them.  I used iptables to limit [...]

I had a tricky time getting this to work correctly, so I thought I’d publish how I was successful.
I need to make a MySQL connection on a remote server.  Opening up the MySQL port of 3306 is simply not an option since it would make it vulnerable to crackers plus the queries involve credit application [...]

Due to family matters, I haven’t had much desire to post anything for a long time.  Hopefully, I can get myself into the mood to write more often.  I would especially like to get the Ass-Hate of the Week Award updated.  For the moment, though, I’ll just mention the latest cool Linux tool.
A few weeks [...]

I’ve been evaluating ecommerce software for the last few days and have come to a conclusion: Not a single package has been developed by anyone with the slightest clue about standards complient html and the proper use of style sheets. 

My antispam filters are extensive and work extremely well.  While spam has not been eliminated, it has been reduced to one a day.  Perhaps two on a rare occasion.  The past couple of days, however, revealed what can go wrong with filtering.
My wife is a translator, editor, and proofreader.  She received a rush job to [...]

I’m in the process of upgrading to Wordpress 1.5 so things might break while I rewrite my theme to the new requirements.

Sometimes I’m an idiot.  Here’s proof…
My wife has been having occassional trouble sending email to a business associate through our server to AOL.  So this evening I sat down to figure out what was the problem.  I spent some time googling on “aol connection problems” and the like.  Eventually getting to an AOL web page [...]

The error in the comment posting code has been fixed.  Comment away!