Grr. My three-day weekend ended with a grumpy ‘Add me to your Do Not Call List’, as I got a courtesy wakeup call from the nice folks at Edge Teleservices. Edge is the third telemarketing company ‘representing’ DirecTV that I’ve requested not to call my home in as many weeks. If I ever had any desire to purchase DirecTV service, be guaranteed that I don’t now.

I wonder if this is the home telephone number and street address of Art Calhoun, the Edge Teleservices manager? I hope not. It seems to me that someone whose primary occupation is the invasion of the privacy of others would strive for quite a bit of their own privacy.

Monkeys + Poo = At least several minutes of entertainment.

More IPsec stuff: @stake Research Labs, formerly L0pht Heavy Industries, has recently released pdd. From the webpage:

pdd is “the first tool of its kind for forensic analysis of Palm OS platform devices. [It] is a Windows-based tool for Palm OS memory imagingand forensic acquisition. The Palm OS Console Mode is used to acquire memory card information and to create a bit- for-bit image of the selected memory region.“

A windows server that a customer handles got exploited and used as an FTP repository for a few hours last week. While driving to Pennsylvania for Thanksgiving, I walked him through applying an access control list (ACL) to his router’s ethernet port to stop the abusive traffic. He’s become much more interested in how ACLs work, so today when the topic was mentioned on NANOG‘s mailing list, I forwarded this long list of network security links to him. Like most lists of links, some are more useful than others. =]

Ooh.. Arcade Ringtones for your Nokia phone.

I’m trying out SmartFTP, and I’m quite impressed.

For years I used LeechFTP, which has ceased development and is getting rather hoary with age. Any new FTP client would have to have the following features: free (not shareware, not a demo), multithreaded downloads, queueing support, resume-on-fail support, and an interface that wasn’t designed by a blind monkey. So far, SmartFTP has beaten out the rest on all of these fronts.

How to drive fast on drugs… as if you didn’t know already.

Humans all around the world must unite to withstand the dolphin’s corruptive ways. Fear the dolphins.

One day I hope to obtain my Master’s Degree from the Institute of Druidic Technology.

I knew it: “In its purest form, Klondike is very difficult to win. Cards are turned over from the stock to the waste in sets of 3 and there is no redeal. Playing this way you can win at best around 3% of the time. “