My favorite superhero is Cliff Stoll Check him out on TED: Clifford Stoll on Everything and he’s written one of my favorite books: The Cukoo’s Egg (check out Stalking the Wiley Hacker)
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Custer Observatory
The Custer Observatory is home of the largest telescope on Long Island. Since it’s open to the public every Saturday night, I had the oportunity to gaze at the stars through it last weekend. It was a beautiful stary night and I look forward to going back again.
Continue ReadingThe assingment – school
Evaluate / Install / Document SMS Messaging software. This semester I’ll be working with Kannel and RapidSMS in the context of Ushahidi. It should be rather interesting. My kickoff is tomorrow afternoon. My wife will be away for a few days so it should give me a chance to get the project well underway. I’ll […]
Continue ReadingSemester done! – CONCEPTS AND STRUCTURES IN INTERNET COMPUTING
Wow, this was a tough semester. I had a really hard time getting into the work this time around. The topics were interesting, but I have to admit to feeling a little burned out. Just a few more classes before I finish though. In class this semester we did a lot of work with XML […]
Continue Readingbiffsocko.com renewal
well, it was that time again. BiffSocko.com was about to expire and it was time to renew the domain name. We’re safe for another few years!
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Infoworld’s top 10 emerging enterprise technologies
I don’t generally read a lot of the trade magazines because all the articles seem like paid advertisements from a technology company. You see hugs ads for Oracle products, then .. oh my, an article singing the praises of Oracle’s latest and greatest products. The articles are not even the slightest bit objective, so I […]
Continue ReadingGraduate School
A student posted a message on our dean’s blog: Anonymous said… What are ways that you can benefit most from the time you are in Graduate school if you also work full time? I thought about this for a while since I’m in the very same boat. Graduate school for most involves working full time […]
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DC3 Challenge
For the last few semesters, I’ve been in the same class with a few other fellows. We’ve decided to undertake the DC3 Challenge this year. It seems like it’ll be a fun project to work on.
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