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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Monthly Archives: August 2006
It’s amazing what an uncanned audience won’t do for you…
As I watch Bush’s speech this morning given to a veteran’s group, even I am surprised by the underwhelming applause at all of the staged pause points. What’s more entertaining is watching Bush wait for the applause to end well … Continue reading
Lie by Lie – Interactive timeline of what the administration knew and when they knew it
This is really interesting – some perspective for when the spin makes it hard to recall things clearly. Scroll the bar on the side back to 1999 and click on the month bars to read events. http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/
My lovely former students
This picture looks better when viewed at a larger size than this, but when I was at Purdue last week, I met with two of my former students from the American Culture class I taught at the Purdue Village ESOL … Continue reading
Weeding and mopping and laundry, oh $#!&!!!
So we’re finally getting settled into the new house in Denver. I’ve spent more time driving (both cross-country (twice!) and around town) in the last several weeks than just about anything else, and I desperately need a rest. Christian, for … Continue reading
Removing U3 (and associated bundled software) from the SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB flash drive
Ok, so this isn’t really a hack per se, but it’s useful information for anyone who’s just bought one of these little puppies. I saw this nice little 1GB USB flash drive when I was in Wisconsin last week for … Continue reading
How to disable the Actiontec DSL modem web activity log
Edit: This was posted in 2006. You know, before we all had smartphones which were trackable anywhere and one could be annoyed by the little things, like my DSL modem keeping an activity log with no way for me to … Continue reading
So Christian has been working hard lately. Really hard. You can see him here during thesis preparation time a week or two ago, and, well, did I mention he’d been working really hard? He didn’t exactly want to be messed … Continue reading
Hermosa Beach
Hermosa Beach, where I spent most of the afternoon reading papers, and Christian met with his advisor and swam around like the fish that he is. Christian explodes from the waves. I didn’t really want to go into the water, … Continue reading
I’m no Feng Shui expert, but…
I’m a firm believer that the environment you work in has a huge impact on both how well you do what you’re doing and how you feel during the day. I think it shapes your state of mind and your … Continue reading
