Recently my DNS provider began experiencing a DNS amplification denial of service attack. This resulted in all of my websites being down for a period of about two days. In an attempt to prevent this type of problem from impacting my websites in the future I have now added two backup DNS providers. When a […]
When it comes to photographic metadata I am obsessive. If an application modifies my ExIf data without telling me, then I am annoyed. This has become increasingly apparent to me recently with some of the tasks that I have attempted to accomplish and their outcome. First of all, several weeks ago I attempted to program […]
I am becoming increasingly frustrated by the amount of automated e-mail that has reached my personal inbox and my academic inbox. I maintain special e-mail accounts for automated e-mail, commercial e-mail and anything that is not directly personal correspondence or academic correspondence. I have been placed in an awkward position by two large entities that […]
As some of my friends are aware, I have recently switched cell phone and service provider, Ting. Tomorrow evening will be the end of my first month of service with Ting and I thought I would post a few notes of my experience. I assume that for the most part no one reading this will […]
As I always find a route of avoidance for getting actual work done when it comes to writing papers I have put a little work into my papers website. Take a look at the two images below. One is the prototype and the other is the real beta website that I’ve developed over the past […]
I have decided to redesign my academic paper website. Shockingly, I have not actually written a single line of code for the new website. Instead, I have prototyped it in Adobe Illustrator. I guess you could say that I am procrastinating on working on real classwork, and you would be right. I’m not sure what […]
The Trust Center stuff in MS Office has been bugging me for a while now. I get sick of having to “enable editing” on documents that I created on another system, but may now be on a network drive location or floating about elsewhere. The thing that makes this more annoying is the part where […]
I have no clue how Google selects what articles are included in Google Scholar, all I know is I currently have a paper listed and it makes me a lot happy. I’m quite surprised that it is in the index so quickly. Nice way to end my first graduate semester. Posted from Charlotte, North Carolina, […]
By this point, I suspect even the least techy of my readers has seen the little square barcodes… like everywhere. They are square for a reason, they are 2 dimensional barcodes, there is information stored both vertically and horizontally, whereas traditional barcodes only scan horizontal measures. Below are 2 barcodes that related to resources in […]
In January 1985, Dr. Jonathan B. Postel, the Internet’s first IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers/Names Authority), set forth a new era in the Internet’s progress. He brought the DNS (domain name system) into existence, essentially giving form to what we today consider the very essence of the Internet. That first glimmer of light on a shapeless […]