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MickC @ February 28, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Today was the first day of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group general meeting in San Francisco. I had to sign an NDA to get in today, so I can’t really discuss what was talked about today. I’m sitting in the Abuse Reporting Format Birds of a Feather (ARF BoF for those of you [...]
MickC @ February 18, 2006 # No Comment Yet
My dad is a really smart man. Some of the best marriage advice that my dad ever gave me was that I should make sure that my family was situated a good distance from either set of our parents. The reason was that it would make it more difficult for us to have [...]
MickC @ February 18, 2006 # No Comment Yet
This post is more of a warning to other unsuspecting people out there. When you install a set of drivers, you expect them to work. That’s not always true.
MickC @ February 13, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Just in case you weren’t aware, hadn’t read my About Mickey page, or are just a first time visitor, I’m a graduate student. I have a BA in Government and I’m now working on a MS in Computer Information Systems.
Sometimes, not very often, but sometimes, I get there early enough to read the J-TAC, [...]
MickC @ February 12, 2006 # No Comment Yet
In case you might have missed it, Vice President Cheney accidently shot a hunting companion yesterday while quail hunting here in Texas.
The owner of the ranch said that she was watching from a car while Vice President Cheney, Austin attorney and Republican activist Harry Whittington and another hunter got out of the vehicle to shoot [...]
MickC @ February 9, 2006 # No Comment Yet
First, an item of backstory. If you don’t understand this, then you won’t understand what happened today.
Last night at church I was talking with a couple of the other, older people about my kids. They said that we just had to wait for them to get old enough to drive, then they would [...]
MickC @ February 9, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Jonathan, the kid who turns 3 next week, has been sick. As part of her attempts to ease his suffering and resultant whining, Carol has been doing some Google searches.
For some reason that is probably best left unknown by me, she looked up “giardia”. For those who don’t know, giardia refers to Giardiasis [...]
MickC @ February 9, 2006 # No Comment Yet
I know that I have a few attorneys who read my blog. This one is for you, so consider this a practice note.
If you are in a jury trial in a product liability case, it’s not the mark of the world’s smartest attorney to give the jury the product in the box. You [...]
MickC @ February 7, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Several of my friends have been passing around this image.
You know that the screen there isn’t what they see every day. It’s a relatively harmless, unclassified image that anyone can pull at by going here.
So, I decided to try my hand at a quickie Photoshop. This was only a couple of minutes worth [...]
MickC @ February 6, 2006 # No Comment Yet
It’s an interesting set of facts.
You own a DSL line
You put a wireless router on it
Some music gets downloaded
The RIAA sues
So, what’s your defense? Well, your defense is that you have
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