May 2008
30 posts
May 30th
playing tennis against a wall… And still losing.
May 28th
whoa, apachetop is really sweet. how have I never heard of this?
May 26th
May 22nd
WatchWatch
My 0.8 seconds of fame
May 20th
Hitting the road for VT
May 19th
May 19th
May 19th
packing… packing… packing… cleaning… packing… loading.. cleaning… oy!
May 17th
wondering what’s going to happen with my AT&T wireless account now that I’ll be roaming 100%. will they cancel me?
May 16th
ListenIt’s always a good day for a little Carl...
May 13th
May 13th
FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 12th
Off to my final final!
May 12th
May 12th
Wow, news of the horrible earthquake in China was at the top of http://quotably.com/popular before CNN even had an alert up.
May 12th
iTunes not seeing jailbroken iPhone
This happened to me after I trashed my iPhone as a result of a corrupted SpringBoard.app property list file. (I think this was Installer.app’s fault, but I can’t say for certain). Anyway, to restore the iPhone that iTunes doesn’t see follow these steps: Connect iPhone to computer Power up iPhone if it’s off Press and hold down both the power and home buttons at the...
May 11th
An update on Hahlo security (it’s improving, but still needs work): http://stream.btucker.org/post/34406476
May 11th
Hahlo security improving
Big props to Dean Johnson of Hahlo for improving security of the tool. After some discussion Hahlo no-longer stores your twitter authentication details in the clear in cookies. This is certainly an incremental improvement, but there are still problems. The login page is still not SSL, so for the login request your credentials are still in cleartext for anyone nearby to snoop. Still much...
May 11th
Changing my address at usps.com back to VT, effective a week from Monday. Feels good.
May 9th
“Excuse me if a look of bewilderment crosses my face when a surrogate of Sen....”
– Roland Martin: Democrats need more than working-class whites
May 9th
Online Advertising: News Corp. exec explains why... →
In other news: the banner/text ad model is clearly broken for apps where the user is not searching out something in particular.
May 8th
May 8th
Saw Iron Man last night. ‘was fun, but I was offended by the notion software writes itself. My friends replied: umm, it’s a superhero movie.
May 7th
learning just how little I understood about MySQL optimization.
May 6th
The twitter client Hahlo is not secure. I recommend thinking twice before using: http://stream.btucker.org/post/33710515
May 4th
Use Hahlo Twitter Client with Caution
Hahlo is a really nice Twitter client targeted primarily at the iPhone, but also usable from any browser. Unfortunately, it handles authentication in a completely insecure way, exposing users’ twitter credentials to any third party sniffing packets on the network. For starters the login page does not use SSL. This in and of itself is a problem since for that one login request a...
May 4th
May 2nd
18 years after shyly entering my first classroom at age 5, today I left my last.
May 2nd
May 1st