My school handed me a TC35 GSM Modem for a project I’ve been working on. The modem has been giving me problems and the user manual is useless, so I went to the Siemens website and dialled the available tech support number: 800-448-8224 .. I was then redirected to the Enterprise Communications Division: 800-310-6308 (I […]
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Book Reviews
A few books I’ve recently gotten through: The Quants “In his new book, “The Quants,” Wall Street Journal reporter Scott Patterson suggests how this new breed of mathematicians and computer scientists took over much of the financial system—and the damage they inflicted in the 2007 meltdown.” I used to work in a quant group in […]
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Cliff Stoll
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)
Continue ReadingCuster 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.
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Montauk
I was lucky enough to get out to Montauk this past weekend. I hiked down the beach to “Camp Hero”    where the seals hang out on the rocks
Continue ReadingIce Station Zebra
Ice Station Zebra Circa 1968. I’m giving this one 4 out of 5 stars. I DVR’d this one on the TCM (Turner Classic Movie Channel) and I’m glad I did. The movie didn’t rely on a lot of special effects, and it had a teriffic plot. I’ve been watching a lot of the TCM channel […]
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 […]
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I’m getting a late start to school this semester. Instead of taking a traditional class, I’ll be working on a project. It will combine SMS Messaging and Cloud Computing . I think it will prove to be interesting. While I have some of the details of the project I will get the whole thing on […]
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Men from the 1970’s
The 1970’s, where men were men. You had to be a badass to pull stuff like this off. Here’s a couple of bad asses just ready to set upon some enemy with a display of fistacufs that haven’t been seen in a long time. I woulda pooped myself if I saw these two loitering around […]
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With Christmas over, we swung right into New Years!!! We had New Years Eve at our house this year. A small group of friends and family came over and stayed the night. We couldn’t have a huge party this year because we had to fly out on New Years Day to Orlando, but in the […]
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