May 2006 Entries
I’ve been a little distressed every since I read that article that stated that the brain can be physically damaged by working in a dull environment. Since my space here at work undoubtedly falls into the brain-damaging segment, I’ve been thinking of ways to potentially offset this damage. Plenty of sites document exercises from learning a musical instrument to brain teasers, to Yoga or dancing.
LifeHacker had a quick and easy one for me just now. Mouse goofy. That is use the mouse with the opposite hand. I am nowhere close to ambidextrous, so I figure my brain will have...
I mentioned the spam attack a few posts ago and I thought I would send a quick update on the status.
All is calm and working normally.
Here’s the step among many that made the biggest difference:
I imported my SMTP logs into MS Access for analysis (too many records for Excel to handle)
Created a query that filtered by sc-status, searching for 550 which corresponds to a relay attempt (201,759 of those!)
Designed another query based on the first one that does a count(ip-address) and groups by ip also. This gave me my top offending IP addresses
Ran the top 20 offenders through the...
Spent the weekend in Charlotte, NC, tagging along with Emily, Jon and Shin-Pei for the genesis of a project on young stock car drivers.
Here are two of the subjects, a twelve year old dirt-track’r on the left and sixteen year old Chase Austin on the right.
[from Emily’s flickr stream]
Ate way too much BBQ, including Mac’s Speed Shop, which was excellent. If you are looking for (here you go Google) “Good BBQ in Charlotte, NC”, give it a go.
Local food-language usage tip:
(At a BBQ cart at a street faire)Shin-Pei: What comes on the BBQ plate?Server: Well, let’s see, cole slaw,...
A work related email I received the other day:
thank you Corey you are the best
That smiley is courtesy of the HotBar. Our network at work is ripe with these other spyware apps that our users willfully install. The latest trend in spyware is to create something that people could plausible want, make it literally viral (clicking on the image in an email will either install automatically or prompt to install depending on security settings), and track and spy and muck up the workstation and profit.
While it is not normally part of my job to work on desktop stuff, I did make...
Google has brought the interactive mapping goodness of Google Maps to your mobile phone.
Google Maps Mobile is a free download with a look and feel just like that of the Google Maps you've come to know and love, offering directions, local search, movable maps, and satellite imagery of your location (I've been using it for ten minutes and I'm already hooked).
If you're curious to see if your phone will work with Google Maps Mobile, check out the list of supported devices.
Google Maps Mobile
[via LifeHacker]
This is exactly the kind of thing we ought to be seeing more of for mobile...
Just a couple of points to recap my friend Jared’s bachelor party weekend.
You can demo/rent golf clubs from New York Golf Center on 35th between Broadway and 7th Ave, they gave me a really nice set of Ping G5s, $50 for three days. I’m in the market for clubs and I’m going straight for a good set, no starter business for me. My American Express points are worth either a set of irons or a set of woods, but not both. The first set of clubs I played with were my grandfather’s Pings and that combined with good marketing mean...
I had started growing my beard back in February in preparation for this event, but I never achieved the competition level growth I needed to get up on stage.
It looks like they are selling out this event and ticket’s aren’t going to available at the door. Also, there’s this from the latest email announcement:
if you know anyone who is interested in competing, or want to compete yourself (there are categories for "artificial" and "patchy"), then go here and sign up: http://nycbeard.com. we're almost out of spaces, and we'd like to have as many friends as possible on stage.