In Flanders Fields…

My son asked me on Saturday as we were going into the store why an old guy was selling flowers.  It gave me an opportunity to tell him about the “true meaning” of Memorial Day and explain to him that some of our bravest hero’s don’t get to come home. So today I will be … Read more

RandomlyOpenCD.VBS

I got a call from a friend who was sure his PC was hacked because his CD-ROM drive kept randomly opening and closing.  After looking at the machine I found a .vbs file in his appdata folder named RandomlyOpenCD.VBS (surprisingly It randomly opens and closes the CD drive) and nothing else that looked like an … Read more

Saying No

Last night I sent an email to a good friend and his boss passing on an amazing career opportunity that paid an ungodly amount of money. It was basically Scrooge McDuck build a money bin money. So why didn’t I take it?  After a lot of thinking and discussion with my wife it boiled down … Read more

Text Bombed

This afternoon a “hacker” decided to text bomb my phone with about 1000 text messages asking me to paypal him $100 to stop. A couple of things: I don’t negotiate with terrorists. (I always wanted to say that.).  Part of the text bomb gave me information on how it was happening. After getting a couple … Read more

Why I Hate My Alarm Clock

Meet the Capello Sleep & Charge Dual Alarm Clock with Night Light sold exclusively by Target. It works fairly adequate as a: USB Charging Station Alarm Clock Radio Night Light(?) Why I hate it is this button right here: This “DST” button is .25" away from the snooze button, .2" away from the source and … Read more