A few years ago – back in 2008 – I entered the land of the homeowner and bought my first house. I knew from talking to my insurance company that I would get a discount on my homeowners insurance if I had an alarm system installed. Being a technologist I also knew I wanted to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2011’
False Alarms, Fire Trucks, and Customer Service Failures
Posted: 5th October 2011 by John in PersonalTags: 2011, Alarm Systems, Alarm.com, Customer Service, FrontPoint Security
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The Evolution of a Cyclist
Posted: 8th July 2011 by John in PersonalTags: 2011, Biking, clothing, cycling, Exercise
I’ve always enjoyed riding a bicycle, but it had always been approached very casually. As a kid I would ride around our neighborhood all the time in my various bikes. Even after suffering a horrific bike accident in 2nd grade (one which saw the majority of the skin on my face removed by pavement, as [...]
Sometime around late summer or early fall of 2010, Ann and I decided we should start biking more. We lived in our first house at the time, and it was conveniently located on a greenway walking/biking trail that led into Eagle Creek State Park, where we had a membership. We started out with short [...]
Beware: Major PGP WDE issue on Sandy Bridge architecture. Show Stopper.
Posted: 2nd April 2011 by John in NewsTags: 2011, Encryption, Infosec, PGP, Symantec
I’ve written on here before about major bugs in the PGP platform for whole disk encryption. Fairly recently it was discovered that there exists a bug with the latest version of PGP Desktop (specifically, whole disk encryption), with machines that are running the new Intel Sandy Bridge architecture with certain hard drives. On the new [...]
Last week I had the awesome opportunity to visit the ExactTarget Global headquarters in London. A project I have been working on required someone to be physically present in our office over there and I was picked to be that someone. This was cool for several reasons – first and foremost being that it was [...]
