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Children are afraid of the boogyman, they should be afraid of “China’s all seeing eye”. For those that don’t think that anything like that could happen in a democracy, you’re delusional. It’s already happening in London and in NYC. This of course is under the guise of security. It will make you safer. unfortunately, it […]

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Its time to move from my co-op in Queens. In truth, we can’t afford NOT to move. Interest rates are very low, and with a tanked housing market, and a need for further tax write offs, Rosie and I have decided to move on. We’ve been working on our home for quite some time and […]

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So, I was out with my father today. He gave me a ride to a trunk rental place to pick up a truck. I was moving a few items out of my storage facility. Along the way I got gas for my SUV and the conversation went to the price of gas. With record oil […]

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• May, 19, 2008
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So,   I spent most of my weekend working on Java code for the telecom swithching sofware I’ve been writing.  I’ve always been a hack at coding Java, but I’m getting much better as a result of this project.  The project itself is also somewhat difficult and in its third iteration.  Initially, the code was to […]

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We can’t really discuss disrupting communications without talking about taking down the Internet. When you connect to the internet, you connect to an ISP ( Internet Service Provider). Think of your ISP as just a big LAN. For instance, when I log in using my road runner cable modem, I find myself on the road […]

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A few months ago, two submarine cable breaks under the Mediterranean, caused global Internet problems. While it wasn’t felt much in the United States, it brought some countries to a stand still. It got me to thinking; how would one bring communications to a halt world wide. There are three methods in which voice and […]

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So, its been about three weeks since I’ve started working at “The Firm”.  Before taking this position I had a few offers that I’d turned down because I felt that I wanted “just the right position”.  My feeling was that I would be at whatever position that I’d accepted for a long time.  Because I […]

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May 1, 1964: First Basic Program Runs Happy Programming (BASIC Code from http://web.onetel.net.uk/~richardweston/Tutorial001.html) PRINT “How does it do it?” PRINT 5 PRINT 5+2 PRINT “5+2″ PRINT 6/3 PRINT 10*9 PRINT 10*(3+2) PRINT 12/(5-3) a=55 PRINT a PRINT a/5 PRINT 10^2 PRINT 10^3 PRINT SQR(16) PRINT SQR(2) A$=”This computer is a smart cookie” PRINT A$ L=LEN(A$) […]

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Well, I’m back to the old grind. My first day at “The Firm” was good. I’m really excited to be there. It’s a total culture shock and much different then my last position. There was a lot of good natured joking around and the personalities are a lot more laid back. That being said, theres […]