New Storm Variant

Storm takes on a new guise aimed at the paranoid set. This stuff is just incredibly genius… Private Detective Scare is Storm Trojan

Something Weird

You know what’s weird? Seeing a blog entry written by someone and having them reference you as “their boss.” Even if that is technically true—that person does work for me—it just gives me the willies. I never wanted to be anyone’s boss. I just want to write code and see what goofy crap can be…

TV Land

The old crappy TV’s nervous breakdown indicators are picking up steam. We are also on the verge of the new HDTV epoch. I am rather excited about a PC-based home entertainment system. We are looking at one of these as a joint Christmas present to one-another: Sharp AQUOS Westinghouse LTV-32W6 HD Now I don’t need…

The Coming Storm

I’ve been following the ever-increasing Storm Worm phenomena since it’s arrival almost a year ago. I was originally impressed by the relative polish of its social engineering aspects. It has always seemed to me that all manner of phishing, social engineering, and general spam vectors have had some very obvious clues. It’s like the individual…

Devastating Shortcake

Another in what promises to be a long line of repurposed entries from the old Millionaire’s Holiday page. This one originally aired on October 23, 2005. Here’s what I had to say about this show: A really fun show this week where we hear all sorts of novelty oddities with just enough beats to tie…

Cooks.com – Recipe – Curry Pumpkin Soup

I’m not exactly the king of cookery and I am hardly a recipe blog kind of guy, but this recipe is superlative. We made it little over a month ago to rave reviews and then promptly lost the paper it was printed on. Elz and I are using it as the opening gambit for our…

A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity. from: A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design One could just link to A List Apart and be done with it. That would…

Reasonably lacking in fun

What passes for the mothership-in-law will be staying with us this evening.  Here are some ways in which this promises to not be fun: She self-diagnosed her sinus infection as a mini-stroke Incessant demands for all and sundry to “feel my forehead.  Isn’t it hot?” Requests to “just hold my hand” made almost as frequently…