...or just disable auto-join.

Keep an eye out for DEFCON 21 t-shirts in your local coffee shops this next week...

...otherwise I'd never be able to get it home in my Lamborghini.

"There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch."

~Nigel Powers~

Key in 5,318,008, turn the calculator upside down, then smile with fifth grade satisfaction.

' ... although I'm not sure a middle-aged suburbanite dad should don purple tights and cape to become a crime-fighter!"

You're correct; you'll be wanting ultraviolet pants for this job...

Limor Fried is also known as Lady Ada, not Jeri Ellsworth.

http://lifehacker.com/5481197/macgyver-of-the-day-limor-ladyada-fried

I blogged about my top 10 questions to ask before taking an IT job, and some of 'em included:

8. What is the on-call rotation schedule?
7. In the last year, how many times has the on-call person been called?
4. Can I schedule vacations around the holidays?

Not even the fail whale was working...

I just caught a local PBS show in which someone from NASA (I didn't catch his name, as I came into the program right after his
introduction) shared the following bit of bad news that comes with the new Federal Budget:

"The Shuttle is 30 years old. We've been flying this machine for thirty years. Over the last year and a half, we've been transitioning to a new Constellation program and developing a new launch vehicle as well as the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle to take us back to the moon. That's the goal.

When that shuttle retires, there's going to be a serious change in workforce.

What are we going to do with all the engineers that were performing sustaining engineering on that shuttle program?

The idea was to take them and move them over into the part of the Constellation program that develops the Altair, which is a Lunar Lander going back to the moon.

Today, when President Obama rolled out his detail budget on space, he pulled the Altair and pushed it out three to five years.

So that's a real concern.

If you had asked me this morning at 8:00 if there was going to be a problem with the space industry with engineers and moving forward, I would have said no. This afternoon we've got a real concern
about that and how we're going to fill the gap with those employees.

And we've still got time. We've got a couple of years to try to convince the present Obama administration to continue to go back to the moon."

...because Sebastapol was on the cutting edge of WiFi and community wireless not too long ago. Home to O'Reilly & Associates as well WiFi guru, Rob Flickenger, this was the site of many of the first long-haul WiFi links and other rooftop tech. It's a shame that a community that was once on the forefront of wireless coolness is now putting on the brakes over something like this...

I thought the idea was good, the execution was poor.

As somebody who used to live off the nightly builds, I can say that the problem wasn't that the execution was poor - it was that the ideas changed too much, too frequently. Have a vision, document it, and then build it. The programmers appeared to be tasked with executing visions that changed dramatically on a monthly basis.

I would test whole featuresets only to find them disappear completely out of the next build. My (least) favorite was the RSS integration. It's integrated with the bookmarks, no wait it's a separate thing, no wait it's gone altogether. Huh? Development time was wasted, testing time was wasted, and users got flaked out.