BlueHat
If getting a new product ready for market is time-consuming, it’s 10x worse to try to do a major revision of that product while supporting users! I’ve been down this road many times in the past, but it never fails to impress me as to how much harder it is to make forward progress when […]
Opera, anyone?
In a totally off-topic post, I wanted to send congrats to my brother Scott Dispensa, who has been selected to join the New York Metropolitan Opera chorus.
In his honor, I’m currently playing La bohème louder than anyone around me would like.
Whoops…
Whoops! It turns out that I forgot to change my DNS hosting after my move of my domain to my new registrar. It turns out that the new guys don’t actually do DNS hosting (at least, not in an obvious way), which is astounding for a company in the domain name business. Anyway, thanks to […]
Network Solutions tells lies (or they’re incompetent)
The folks at Network Solutions either do underhanded and annoying things when talking to customers from customer service, or the representatives are just not very good at their jobs.
I called NetSol today to try to complete the transfer of a domain name to another registrar. I’m tired of paying $30+ per year for something that […]
Fun with power backup
One more tangent while we’re reminiscing about the Good Old Days. There’s a major power outage going on in San Francisco right about now, which may be the result of human error, to put it nicely
It’s funny how this stuff still happens despite oaths to the contrary by data center providers. But it […]
What was your first computer?
Brad Feld asks, "What was your first computer?"
Mine was a Commodore 64, complete with a Commodore 1541 5 1/4" Floppy Drive and a 300 bps modem. The whole thing was bought used in about 1985 for a couple hundred dollars.
I went from there to a comparatively gigantic Commodore 128D before I made the jump to […]
“I’ll pay you for your checking account number”
What if someone said “I’ll pay you for your checking account number.” Would you give that person your information? Probably not.
But a similar question just came up in a conversation with a friend: should you be careful about accepting checks from just anybody? Everyone who writes you a check gets your checking account number and […]
IE7 Crashing?
I have noticed in the past few days that IE7 has been crashing a lot on msdn2.microsoft.com. Is anyone else seeing this or did I somehow screw up my system? Vista, latest updates, blah blah…
What I’ve been up to lately
I’ve been heads-down for the past six months focusing virtually all of my attention on two very special projects.
Tomorrow, Positive Networks will be announcing its newest service to the world: a two-factor authentication service for everyone. Readers of my blog will recognize by now that I’ve never been a fan of usernames and passwords, and […]
A quick rant about e-mail address validation
I use GMail a lot. I love it. One thing that I really love is the fact that you can create spam-resistant e-mail addresses like by adding a + sign after the user part.
So, if your e-mail address is example@gmail.com, and you have phone service from AT&T, you could give the AT&T website this address: […]