Planning to watch “The Spy Factory”, a NOVA examination of the NSA, this week on PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spyfactory/ #
Category Archives: Security
Notes from 2008-10-09
Thursday, October 9, 2008
At Tulsa TechFest Day 1, morning keynote by Chris Bernard, Microsoft User Experience Evangelist; click here for slides # Standing room only at the TechFest morning keynote # Stunning revelation from Microsoft keynote: “We need to think about scale”. Wow. # Bernard: “UX is about making choices”; developers need to “be everywhere” # Bernard is [...]
Come to TechFest!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Tulsa TechFest is this week, Thursday and Friday October 9th and 10th. Two cans of food or two dollars gets you in each day (donated to charities in either case). There are a ton of interesting speakers and topics planned (click here to access the complete agenda). I’m speaking on the Synthesys Platform and especially [...]
Notes from 2008-09-19
Friday, September 19, 2008
Electrons finally sorted out the 2001 Anthrax mail attacks http://tinyurl.com/4b8blq #
iPhone 2.1 software update
Friday, September 12, 2008
Apple has released the latest iPhone software update, version 2.1. Among other things, this update addresses many of the iPhone 3G call drop and performance issues reported by users in the last couple of months. During installation you are presented with the following “Important Information” for this release: iPhone 2.1 Software Update iPhone version 2.1 [...]
Tulsa TechFest
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tulsa TechFest is returning for its third year, and I’ve been asked to speak. My talk on “Hacking the Meaning in Human Communication” is a part of the Java track, though it contains REST Web programming as well as Java API info and examples. What is TechFest? In the words of the organizers: TechFest is [...]
iPhone 2.0 software update
Friday, July 11, 2008
Apple has released the latest iPhone software update, version 2.0. This brings ye olde iPhones up-to-software-snuff with the software features on iPhone 3G phones on sale as of today. Biggest new feature: App Store. The related iTunes 7.7 update also adds in something I’ve desperately wanted for the last year: The ability to synchronize your [...]
Diebold accidentally leaks results of 2008 election early
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early PS April Fools!
iPhone 1.1.4 software update
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Apple has released the latest iPhone software update, version 1.1.4. During installation you are presented with the following “Important Information” for this release: iPhone Software Version 1.1.4 This version of the software includes bug fixes and supersedes all previous versions. For feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the users guide for your iPhone at: http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/iphone/ [...]
Oklahoma bill to curtail campus attacks
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Investor’s Business Daily‘s recent “Columbine To Va. Tech To NIU: Gun-Free Zones Or Killing Fields?” article by John R. Lott, Jr is spot-on:Gun-free zones are magnets for bad guys. I applaud the Oklahoma House of Representatives for considering a bill that would allow properly vetted concealed weapon license holders to carry on college and university [...]
