Last week, I made the annual mistake of installing the lastest version of Norton SystemWorks on my main desktop PC. The next day, my automated backups from the PC to my Linux server stopped working. I got a distressing backup report email […]
Since I have a 4 letter Yahoo! id, I used to receive random messages from time-to-time. Not spam, just people who had the wrong address. I generally replied as if I was the intended recipient, embarassing the sender, ccing my coworkers for […]
I don’t really drive very much, since we are a proud one-car family. Most days, I take the train to work. In January, however, a friend of mine let me borrow his car while he was out of the country. The very […]
Throughout most of my tenure at a security software company, I was of the opinion that despite being in a great work environment with great people, security was inherently boring. My reasoning was that in a perfect world, we’d still have video […]
Since I’ve spent most of the week trying to deploy our application in WebSphere using basic authentication and JAAS, I thought I’d document my pain here so that nobody ever has to go through this again. Pandora’s Checkbox When you want to […]
Now that I’m a seasoned Senior Enterprise Software Engineer with 6 years of industry experience, I feel qualified to point out that as a whole, enterprise software is kind of a joke. Case in point: I spent the last two days trying […]
Some time during my Junior year at Stanford, I got an email out of the blue from Dave Weekly. I had never actually met Dave, but he pointed out that we seemed to know the same people (the hip CS crowd, if […]