Day: September 10, 2007

This Is What Internet Security Looks Like

Hav­ing recent­ly lis­tened to the series on mul­ti-part authen­ti­ca­tion on the Secu­ri­ty Now! pod­cast (par­tic­u­lar­ly episodes 90 and 103), I got this (very inex­pen­sive) Pay­Pal brand­ed secu­ri­ty key to use with my eBay and Pay­Pal accounts. The device is actu­al­ly made by Verisign and they are cur­rent­ly test­ing it’s use with OpenID. I would­n’t have… Con­tin­ue read­ing This Is What Inter­net Secu­ri­ty Looks Like

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Yes, Cell Phones are Bad for Hospital Equipment, Too

Dur­ing Ange­la’s stay in the Labor and Deliv­ery ward at St. Mary’s, we were required to turn off our cell phones at the doors to that par­tic­u­lar area of the third floor. Based on my pre­vi­ous edu­ca­tion in that cell phones real­ly can inter­rupt air­plane nav­i­ga­tion equip­ment, I did so with­out com­plaint. Well, it appears… Con­tin­ue read­ing Yes, Cell Phones are Bad for Hos­pi­tal Equip­ment, Too

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Fixed The Washer, What’s Next?

With­in less than three weeks of our daugh­ter being born, our oth­er­wise reli­able front-load­­ing wash­ing machine start­ed hav­ing some prob­lems. The wash­er would­n’t spin the clothes – leav­ing us to hand-wring out large piles of slop­ping wet laun­dry. How­ev­er, with some inves­ti­ga­tion and help, the wash­er I was able to fix the wash­er myself (as… Con­tin­ue read­ing Fixed The Wash­er, What’s Next?

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