Palin has it all in hand

Is it just me or does resorting to writing notes on your hand completely annihilate your ability to criticize someone for using a teleprompter? *facepalm*

I guess the T in TEA party stands for truthiness.

The best Superbowl 2010 Commercial.

I nearly fell off my chair. It is truly interesting how this spot came about.

Viewzi

Wow... its been a while since I've really been impressed by a search engine. I happened across Viewzi today and it is really impressive... especially with the image/tag clouds. Its pretty neat...

ipsCA

It's Festivus. So let's air a grievance:

To all my fellow .edu's out there who're getting bit by the fact that ALL IPSCA CERTIFICATES EXPIRE FROM ANY BROWSER THAT ISN'T IE ON WINDOWS (not that I'm cranky about this, but it was a wonderful holiday gift from them), I have a few thoughts relating to the Mozilla bug 529286.

1. I know that between my time and my groups time we spent far more on our salaries dealing with just this problem alone than we saved by getting the "free" certs.

2. ipsCA did some MAJOR no-no's here. We were issued a certificate on December 10, 2009 on the SERVERDORES cert that expires on December 29, 2009. This is really, really bad. No customer should ever be put in this position.

3. If you have not purchased SSL certificates in some time (as was my case), you might be pleasantly surprised that the cost has come down dramatically (as I was) -- especially for wildcard certificates (eg. *.col.univ.edu). Especially for most .edu's out there, be careful about some CA's that want you to sign a contract/paper (which is typically something that can get one in trouble).

4. The fact that ipsCA has gotten themselves into this mess is not Mozilla's problem. We ultimately depend on the security provided by these certificates and this process. From my reading of the timeline, it is going to take many months and is most likely something that is going to be slowed down due to people wanting to ensure that ipsCA has taken steps not to repeat this problem.

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The bottom line is, that we as customers of ipsCA we should never have been put in this position in the first place. ipsCA put us there, not Mozilla.

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Time to limber up for my Feats of Strength.

Recursion

Google has about the right suggestion for "recursion".

A family converstaion

My father: "You're going to see AC/DC again?"
My mother: "I have to see them another time before I die!"

I think I've not found a way to wash my car

Although, it sure does the tires up well.

8500 bottle rockets

I'd hate to be this guys guardian angel.