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The Google Proxy
06/19/06
Google has a web proxy that may be able to get you around your corporate firewall, and may allow you to surf anonymously.

Alternate Reality: The City Competition
06/01/05
Alternate Reality is alive and well.

SyncBackSE - The Ultimate Backup Tool
03/15/05
The two main kinds of data loss are A) your computer breaks and you need a simple backup of your data, or B) your data is corrupt, and has corrupted your backup as well. I searched long and hard to find a program that could handle both of these situations, and finally, I found one.

Google Autolink: Hey, where did that link come from?
02/25/05
Partner with Google and get your link on every site in the world!

Recovering From a Catastrophic Failure
02/15/05
My computer wouldn't turn on. I didn't know what had caused it. It would be a few days before I could track down the problem. Was I able to continue working?

Numb3rs "Structural Corruption" - The Real Story
02/12/05
I saw the "hit" TV show Numb3rs for the first time today, and the plot was very familiar to me. I'd read about this exact problem (minus the murders, suicides and intrigue) several times in the past.

A Simple Solution To Spam (And Phishing)
02/01/05
A high level overview of a method that I think can be used to create trust relationships between people using email to reduce the amount of spam that gets to us. Feedback & loopholes welcome.

Social Networking IM Client
01/19/05
I love Stan! Stan loves ham... ham I am!

Anonymous Communication With Waste
01/17/05
Waste is a decentralized, encrypted chat & file sharing protocol that lets you talk to your friends without anyone listening in. It is not, however, a tool for anonymous communications... or is it?

Mac mini = iMac + no monitor
01/14/05
Duh. I should've realized this... um, hours ago.

Steve Jobs is a Fucking Genius
01/12/05
Seriously.

The Triangle Problem or What's Wrong with the Obvious Truth
01/09/05
They say seeing is believing, but what happens when the most obvious answer deceives you?

More Brainfarts
01/04/05
Latest in an ongoing series of creative ideas.

The Year The Internet Tipped
12/31/04
How small changes to the Internet have changed the way we talk.

Even More Things I Thought Of
12/15/04
Part of an ongoing series of ideas I have.

I Love del.icio.us
12/15/04
And del.icio.us loves me.

How long does it take to crack SSL?
11/09/04
I was talking to some people a while back about how long it would take to crack SSL and whether or not the governmeng could realistically crack any consumer grade secure communication it wanted to in real time.

Automated, Hands-Free Backups
10/03/04
We're all lazy, but we all want to be sure that our important documents are safe from damage. Here are a few solutions to that problem.

*&@#@!()*#&!@# Passwords and what to do about them
09/30/04
Don't you hate coming up with passwords for every site that asks for a registration code? Well here's something you can do about it.

Other Things I Thought Up
09/30/04
Some more of my ideas that I've run across recently.

Amazing Inventions That Were
09/13/04
Some things I dreamed up that were later turned in to products.

A Complete Waste Of Time WARNING: Do Not Read This If You Have Work To Do!!!!!!!!!
08/25/04
Why do people insist on torturing me so?

Amazon Real Name Badge
07/23/04
Amazon takes a bold step towards fixing their flawed & exploitable review system.

Alternate Reality: The Video Game
02/07/04
In 1983 a video game was released that would change gaming forever. In 1999, a movie was released that changed movies forever. Was it a coincidence, or are they somehow related?

Rot13 Encoder/Decoder
11/25/02
Increasingly aware of the corporate monitoring of it's citizens, I've been introducing my friends to ROT13 encryption.

My Favorite Smallware
09/14/02
I use a lot of little programs to make my day-to-day life easier. Here are a few of them.

The BN saga continues...
08/01/02
Apparently the mantle of finding flaws in BN.com has been passed on.

My 15 Minutes of Fame (Wired.com, BN.com)
07/28/02
Just a quick link to an article in Wired.com that features yours truly. http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,53942,00.html

Fraud?
07/12/02
Today I was informed that my debit card was flagged for potential fraudulent activity.

More BN.com Things
07/11/02
The problem is more serious than I initially thought.

Protecting Yourself From BN.com Flaw
07/09/02
Answering some questions people have been asking me about the BN.com security flaw I stumbled on.

BarnesAndNoble.com Security Flaw
07/09/02
How I accidentally discovered some cracks in BarnesAndNoble.com's security, or How to hack BN.com in 1 easy step.

Add Google Search to Your Toolbar
06/21/02
You can use this tool to add Google search to your toolbar.

Now, What if we pooled our resources? (an article on AI)
04/09/02
An article the potential of AI, hurdles that need to be crossed, and why we should and do fear computers.

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