While I am generally a fan of any security measure which improves your online safety, especially related to online finance, there has always been a nagging thorn which made me dislike Bank of America’s SiteKey / SitePass two factor authentication system. It all boils down to it’ ... Continue Reading
tl;dr – Until this country has restored a “true” balanced budget, nothing else matters related to our national debt. Yesterday I saw an intriguing retweet from a friend originally Tweeted by @paulfreid related to the current US Debt crisis and how it relates to various ... Continue Reading
It’s very interesting the odd things which help you confirm you know you have made the right choice on a decision, but before I get to that, first a bit of back story. I’ve been collecting advice and been thinking about something for over two years now. I’ve thought so m ... Continue Reading
I’ve long been looking for a solution for playing back iTunes movies on my iPad/iPhone without having to sync the content to the device over USB. By luck, a friend tipped me off to the fact that MobileSafari would allow you to playback DRM’d content served over HTTP. From that ... Continue Reading
One of the several things I love about using Apple computers is the fact in general, when I set out to do some project, things just work as planned (not sure if Apple deserves credit in all cases though). This is definitely not always the case, as evidenced by some of my angry tweets in th ... Continue Reading
As is typically tradition for me, I’m going to be cooking for some friends again this holiday weekend. Lately that seems to involve me and a grill more often than not and I wanted something a bit healthier than steaks or ribs (despite their tastiness), so I decided to dig through the ... Continue Reading
On Monday while riding into the city (the city = San Francisco for those not from this area), I took the opportunity to play with my iPad. Needing an internet connection and not having a 3G model yet, I used my iPhone + MyWi to get online. Randomly, I decided to open up the maps app and hi ... Continue Reading
Today I was challenged with the following advanced statistics problem: Two variables are exponentially distributed with rate parameters lambda 1 ( λ1 ) and lambda 2 ( λ2 ). What is the probability ( p ) that variable 1 ( X1 ) is less than v ... Continue Reading
Today while working with a 3rd party’s codebase, I ran into a situation which git-svn could not directly handle without pulling in massive amounts of unnecessary repository history. Turns out the solution was much simpler than I anticipated, so I’m sharing here in case it’ ... Continue Reading
Since I spent the time to dig up the method of calculating the wind chill given a specific temperature and wind speed, I figured I would go ahead and share it in case someone else finds it useful. Here’s three functions for calculating the wind chill, one each for Javascript, PHP, an ... Continue Reading
