Archive for: January 2004

One of the not-so great things about telecommuting all the time is that I rarely leave the house. That isn’t to say I never leave the house, but it’s usually only to places like the grocery store or some other …

Just got word from my editor today that my VPN-1/FireWall-1 NG book is finally in the stores! I should be getting a fully bound copy tomorrow. amazon.com is supposedly shipping the books now. She also finally tracked down the Portuguese …

This evening, my son noticed a different monitor on his desk and more or less immediately wanted his “old computer” back. His computer (the CPU, disk drive, etc) was still right there on his desk, but the “computer” was different. …

Every once in a while, I need to move things around in my office. This time, the goal I have in mind is to move my normal computing area closer to the door of my office. The reason is: at …

One of the things about working some place for about 5 years is you acquire a number of things. One thing is mobile phones — I think I have about 10 (have to live up to the “PhoneBoy” name I …

My current cable company, Charter, is in the process of “selling the franchise” to a new company called Wave Broadband. The infrastucture is in the process of being cut over — the underlying network is already cut over (going thru …

In my own network at home, I have come full circle. I started out with a Linux box as a firewall. At the time in about 1997, my “broadband connection” was an ISDN line coming into an external ISDN modem. …

One of the things I like about my Nokia 6800 is that I have a way to write notes to myself anywhere. I just whip it out, open up the keyboard, and with a couple of keypresses, I am typing. …

One of the more useful things I saw in an off-site meeting I had with my coworkers and bosses earlier this week was the USB flash memory drive that are about the size of a thumb. My bosses were using …

For the past several months, there have been some changes within my employer. This has included, among other things, a change in my day-to-day responsibilities. In some ways, it provided some clarity: It legitimized a lot of “extra” things that …