Well, everyone is upset at the Sonics decision.

Me, I was just hoping for a decent NHL team.

Hockey, that is.

Bad, bad CISPA!

So, my cousin Allison is now mobile, on crutches, after both surgeries from the Boston Marathon explosion caused shrapnel to hit her knee and leg.

The largest piece of shrapnel was the size of her hand.

She should be fine in a few weeks, will get updates from my Aunt Yanna and Uncle Len Saari who are staying with her to help out while she recuperates.

Glad to hear the Vancouver Sun Marathon and the Nelson BC marathon report large increases in people signing up. Living in Fear is what the (probably domestic) terrorists want.

It was her first marathon.

She got thru the first surgery fine after the Boston Marathon bomb (she was 20 feet from the finish line when the first went off), and went in for surgery for her knee again today. Word is she is out of that.

Glad it's sunny.

So, turns out my first cousin, Allison Saari Byrne, was in fact 20 feet from the finish line when the first bomb went off and was, in fact, wounded.

She's in for knee surgery right now but is alive and will be ok.

Seriously, why do people keep attacking my family. First my brother and uncle (World Trade 9-11 they worked there, but not in office during attack), now my uncle's daughter (my cousin).

So, my cousin Allison was in the Boston Marathon.

Still no word.

Trying to be positive, but so far my uncle (her dad) and my brother survived 9-11 even though they worked in the World Trade Center, so just hoping our family's luck is still golden.

Now that the asteroid has hit the earth, and everyone is dead, it's time to talk about how we're all going to deal with the Zombie Invasion in Canada.

Just waiting until I'm called up. Sigh.

Boo ya.

12-6-12 is our new 4-20

Nobody puts muppets in the corner. Mess with PBS, die like the rest.

OK, so today I'm trying to write a web page to link a bunch of known files and transfer them to another location.

Due to HIPAA and VA rules this has to be a secure file transfer, encrypted.

When they get to our site, they have to login as a specific user. The user belongs to a group. The site forces HTTPS secure connection if they try to come in as HTTP.

So, normally, if I wanted to provide a link to a file I would go something like this:

get important file

Can I just use SFTP in place of FTP? Or if I specify FTP will it literally invoke FTP on the browser end? Since the entire thing is running under SSL2 for SSH is this just plain overkill?

Or am I just being extraordinarily clueless?

I ask, cause normally I write code that uses PHP and runs MySQL commands and literally builds the output files - CSV, XLS, etc - from scratch, and sets the transfer type and authentication level. But this is so primative - a literal ONE FILE TRANSFER LINK - that I can't remember what to do, as the last time I did something like that, not using FOPEN() and scanning a dir and popping an array and building stuff was like ages ago in Internet time, and back then we used FTP.

THANKS!

Been a busy week, and the Occupy Seattle protests are going strong at Westlake Mall in Seattle, with thousands expected Saturday at noon.

Completed all the paperwork and signings and final payment and my refinance of my townhouse (54 pct LTV, 46 pct equity) at 4.5 pct is now done. TIME TO SKI!

FTL neutrinos for drives - check!

Magnetic shields - check!

Ok, put this baby in gear and let's roll!

In case you missed it, that was my suggestion that Dan Savage would make a great replacement Microsoft CEO once Ballmer is kicked to the curb, in Infoworld's Cringe column.

I'm quite serious.

I'm looking to roll my own game for the iPad and would like any recommendations for any decent well-coded game development kits for that.

I've got an iPad2 and a Win7 server, both with dual-core, the iPad2 has 32GB.

Would also like recs on books.

Game will be mostly stand-alone but with "gift" sending features and maybe a local "friend" leaderboard, designed so you can use it on both wireless and data plans and out of signal range.

Actually toony in feel, but don't need complex animations.

Well, finally a listed contributor to a peer-reviewed scientific journal paper.

Amusing since I've worked on submissions to Nature and Science before, but it's nice to be recognized.

Two of the Internet Revolutions fueled by wikileaks, Facebook, and Twitter have already resulted in change - Tunisia first (took about a month, US media covered the final few days), then Egypt (took a few weeks, US media covered after the first week).

Who's next?

Saudi Arabia? Yemen? Jordan? Pakistan? Syria?