Monthly Archives: August 2007

Busy . . .

Sorry I haven’t updated in a while. We’ve been incredibly busy with school starting back up. We will try to update on our lives soon.

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Boy do I feel dumb . . .

Earlier this evening I went down to Fry’s Electronics (awesome, but really geeky mega-electronics store) in Fishers to spend a gift card my parents got me for my birthday. I ended up buying a pretty decent set of network cabling … Continue reading

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Washington’s Crossing (David Hackett Fischer)

I just finished reading Washington’s Crossing, part of the “Pivotal Moments in American History” series published by Oxford University Press, and written by David Hackett Fischer. The book is about the battle of Trenton and the winter campaign of 1776-77. … Continue reading

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Unsecured wi-fi + Gmail = Bad News

Oy. Apparently it’s a really bad idea[ZDNet.com] to use GMail (or any other cookie-session based web service, for that matter) on a public or unsecured wi-fi hotspot. For GMail, logging in using https://www.gmail.com/ should head off this particular vulnerability, but … Continue reading

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Anniversary getaway

Tomorrow we’ll be taking off right after work to spend the weekend away for our first anniversary (!). We’re not telling where we’re going just yet, but we’ll have some pictures and description when we get back.

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Al Qaeda images analyzed to reveal interesting info

Computer researchers recently made some interesting discoveries [Wired.com] by doing image analysis on Al Qaeda-published images. It turns out that they are able to detect which details in an image have been photoshopped or otherwise artificially manipulated. Apparently most of … Continue reading

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