Havens riced argyle? Farl armings foppery, madzoons cire columnar
forepaws crackle! Nosing booties putout banneret pearlite. Hyper
balsams intone crammer kainites. Rehinges inhaul, singe.
What does that previous paragraph mean? I was browsing around on www.fourmilab.ch, and came across this. I started playing around, encrypting a short sentence with my full name, and then played around with the Steganography tools. What resulted is the above giberish, that is reminiscent of some of the spam giberish that gets sent through email to confound Bayesian spam filters.
So what does it mean? Well, as a hint, it was a three word sentence, with eight letters total. Need more? I was originally on the page for The Hackers Diet Online, and The Hackers Diet (There have been enough health concerns amongst my friends and family recently to cause us to focus on our own health and well-being). The site has some good tools to analyze weight loss/gain trends, statistically.
"I like pie." Time to go downstairs and have some Strawberry Yogurt Pie. It's pretty tasty, and, for a dessert, not to bad for me either.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Absent
Just dropping in to say, no I haven't fallen off of the edge of the world. After getting back form vacation, my car has been in the shop twice, we have finished cleaning out too rooms and had laminate floor put down, and I've been busy catching up with the work I missed while I was out.
While trying to catch up on a little blog reading, I found the following. I thought it was funny enough to post with the small blurb about my absence, so here it is:
While trying to catch up on a little blog reading, I found the following. I thought it was funny enough to post with the small blurb about my absence, so here it is:
 | You scored as Sirius Black, You are a gifted wizard and very loyal to your allegiance. Whilst you have a big heart and care very much about those around you, you can be a little arrogant and reckless at times.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Countdown to Harry Potter 5 and 7
My wife and I have a date scheduled for Friday night. At 10:00 PM we will be at the Fort Worth Science Museum to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in IMAX. Afterward, we will probably go to the bookstore, which should still be open, and pick up our copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. We both enjoy the books, and will be going out of town for the following week to Lake Murray for SWUUSI.
In preparation for the movie on Friday, we have been watching the previous movies, one a night. In some ways, I love the anticipation it is building. In other ways, it is just making me want the week to be over so I can "get on with the good stuff".
Update July, 22 2007 12:19 AM: Well, in the last 26 hours, I have seen the movie and read the book. All I can say is Wow, what a way to start my vacation. I'm sure I'll reread the last book in a few months, and undoubtedly read it slower that time, but I really enjoyed it. As to the movie, I can only say that my standard complaint regarding turning books into movies stands. With only 2-3 hours to capture 700 pages of vivid imagination, of course the movie is going to suffer by comparison. I did like it better then the Goblet of Fire.
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?"
In preparation for the movie on Friday, we have been watching the previous movies, one a night. In some ways, I love the anticipation it is building. In other ways, it is just making me want the week to be over so I can "get on with the good stuff".
Update July, 22 2007 12:19 AM: Well, in the last 26 hours, I have seen the movie and read the book. All I can say is Wow, what a way to start my vacation. I'm sure I'll reread the last book in a few months, and undoubtedly read it slower that time, but I really enjoyed it. As to the movie, I can only say that my standard complaint regarding turning books into movies stands. With only 2-3 hours to capture 700 pages of vivid imagination, of course the movie is going to suffer by comparison. I did like it better then the Goblet of Fire.
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?"
Monday, July 16, 2007
Friday the 13th
Last Friday, the day starts out with the VP walking around asking all of the men on my side of the building if we are the one who is tossing paper towels on the floor.
I get to lunch and pages start immediately coming in to tell me that apps from our parent company are not making it into our system. This turns out to be due to a DNS issue which takes 4 hours to completely get the issue resolved.
When that issue is resolved, the Citrix Environment web server goes down. This prevents access to a key piece of business functionality. A workaround is instituted about an hour afterward.
And this afternoon, I find out that the old building, the one with about 8 more critical servers, has been running on generator since Friday, the 13th, at 9:00 AM. This is because the power company followed the original shutoff date instead of the revised one.
I get to lunch and pages start immediately coming in to tell me that apps from our parent company are not making it into our system. This turns out to be due to a DNS issue which takes 4 hours to completely get the issue resolved.
When that issue is resolved, the Citrix Environment web server goes down. This prevents access to a key piece of business functionality. A workaround is instituted about an hour afterward.
And this afternoon, I find out that the old building, the one with about 8 more critical servers, has been running on generator since Friday, the 13th, at 9:00 AM. This is because the power company followed the original shutoff date instead of the revised one.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
The Road Not Taken
I recently got an iPod. One of my favorite uses of it is to download podcasts for listening to on the drive to and from work. One of the many subscriptions that I set up is for the 2007 National Poetry Month Selections. For the month of April, one poem was read every day. Today on the way home, I heard Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken". It really resonated today, and so I thought I would quote it here.
Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.
1. The Road Not Taken
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
New Cell Phone
My new work cell phone arrived last week. Just in time, too, because my old one wouldn't charge from the USB connection. I had to remove the battery to charge. I could power it via USB, but the battery wouldn't charge.
The new phone is a Blackberry 8830. It does the standard PDA job well enough. I even get notified of email on this before I see it in Outlook. Unfortunately, they took the USB cable because they don't want ne syncing this to my computer directly. I like the over the air sync, but I would still like to use the phone as a modem, which requires the cable. I turned in my old cable with my old phone, and the spare that I had broke, so it will probably be a while before I test it.
Of course, I am already doing something I had not done with the old one, and that is posting to Blogger.
The new phone is a Blackberry 8830. It does the standard PDA job well enough. I even get notified of email on this before I see it in Outlook. Unfortunately, they took the USB cable because they don't want ne syncing this to my computer directly. I like the over the air sync, but I would still like to use the phone as a modem, which requires the cable. I turned in my old cable with my old phone, and the spare that I had broke, so it will probably be a while before I test it.
Of course, I am already doing something I had not done with the old one, and that is posting to Blogger.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
New Flooring
Well, I know that a few of my friends have dome this recently, but I will be getting laminate installed in my daughters bedroom and my study soon. These are the last two rooms upstairs to be done, and this time, we are hiring someone to do the job. The other three rooms and the hallway took six months to get dome. Hopefully paying someone else to do this will make it get done in a more timely manner.
The bad part about paying someone else to do it is that i am going to have to clear the rooms out. My daughter's room won't be so bad. It's currently fairly sparse, so we will move most of the furniture into my wife's study and move the rest into the hall or my son's room. Then, she can sleep in the top bunk of my son's room for a couple of nights. No, the bad room will be my study. I have a rather large desk, which is stacked high with electronics or computer software, a three foot tall refrigerator, two large stuffed bookcases, more computer equipment stuffed under the desk, and a closet so full of computer/power/phone cables and old PC cases, action figures, stored computer software, etc that you can't go in. All of this needs to be moved out. Unfortunately, I don't know if I have time to find new places for these things throughout the house and sort through the rest and actually get rid of it, or if I should just shove it all in the shed/attic/garage and worry about it later.
Anyone know of a 12 step program for packrats?
The bad part about paying someone else to do it is that i am going to have to clear the rooms out. My daughter's room won't be so bad. It's currently fairly sparse, so we will move most of the furniture into my wife's study and move the rest into the hall or my son's room. Then, she can sleep in the top bunk of my son's room for a couple of nights. No, the bad room will be my study. I have a rather large desk, which is stacked high with electronics or computer software, a three foot tall refrigerator, two large stuffed bookcases, more computer equipment stuffed under the desk, and a closet so full of computer/power/phone cables and old PC cases, action figures, stored computer software, etc that you can't go in. All of this needs to be moved out. Unfortunately, I don't know if I have time to find new places for these things throughout the house and sort through the rest and actually get rid of it, or if I should just shove it all in the shed/attic/garage and worry about it later.
Anyone know of a 12 step program for packrats?
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