google 0wnage Okay I'm in a chatty mood tonight... I've been poking around my site (it's been a while since I've looked at my own site – some parts need to get updated) and was trying to figure out how my Learning Tree CBT gallery
DMCA Madness Part 2 Yesterday, Dmitry Sklyarov delivered his testimony in the trial against Elcomsoft. You'll remember me posting about this last July, so this has been a long wait. Since this is the first trial regarding the DMCA, the outcome of this trial will likely set precedence over future similar trials
Yup Hope everyone had a decent Thanksgiving. Went back home to LA and got together with family, so that was nice. Unfortunately, my weekend stay with the family was cut short and it didn’t have to be. I was basically “on call” on Saturday and Sunday, which meant I had
Blurbs Not much going on these days but I’ve got some blurbs here... ...picked up the new Pearl Jam CD yesterday. Even though few of the songs grabbed my attention during the first listen, the album is already starting to grow on me, and this is definitely a case where
American Lie So I finished reading Free As In Freedom and I just started reading a new book: Stupid White Men by Michael Moore. I’m in the middle of the first chapter and it has rekindled the anger and frustration I had felt over the 2000 presidential elections. As much as
Standing in line for cheese So this morning, I was waiting in line at Best Buy for them to open. I was there to pick up the limited edition U2 best of CD, and I thought all the others in line were there for that too. But then I heard mumblings of a free poster
Lookee, another post! So today was my first day working at another Sony company – Sony Online Entertainment – the makers of Everquest, the upcoming Star Wars Galaxies game, and Planetside, which is the game I’ll be working on. My gig at SCEA was put on hiatus last week. They shipped the game I
Stargazer So this past weekend, I went up to the mountains east of Alpine and for the first time, I got to see the night sky without any "light pollution." It was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I knew there would be a lot more
OY Just got back from work... clocked another 60 hours this week. So that's 3 60-hour weeks in a row. Oy! I feel tired and I guess I look tired too. At the end of the day, my boss walked into my office and said something about me looking
In Haste Yikes! I can't believe it's been over a week since the last update. And I thought time was going too fast when I wasn't working. Someone cast a slow spell on me please. I've been working some semi-crazy hours lately. Last week
Work hard, play hard Don't really have anything new to report. I've been working some 12-hour shifts these past few days, and have many more to come. Work is cool. My only complaint is that my eyes are all bugged out and have a hard time focusing at the end
2nd day of work Guess I should talk about my 1st day of work too. I can't say much since I signed an NDA and my butt is on the line if I give out any details, but I think I can say that my 1st day consisted of the typical orientation
Got job? So it looks like I finally found some work. I interviewed with Sony Computer Entertainment America for a game tester position this past Wednesday and got called back to come in this Wednesday for orientation. The pay isn't all too hot (I'll be making less than
update Gah, it's been nearly 2 weeks since the last update. My WinRunner class that I signed up for got cancelled, which is a major bummer since I was looking forward to finally having some automated testing experience under my belt. Sucks even more that this was the 2nd
DEN - the untold story 2 years in the making... here's a flash movie (warning: not safe to watch at work) done by some of the Aggronation guys. Since I haven't finished my "me" section yet, yes, I used to work at DEN.
Arco I hate Arco gas. What's worse is 87 octane Arco gas. I filled up on it a few days ago, trying to save some pennies and I feel like I'm driving a 4-cylinder truck now. Acceleration sucks and I have to mash a little harder on
f33r my java skills!! Yesterday, I wrapped up and finished the Java class that started in April. Now I can say that I know some Java and can finally list it on my resume. By no means am I a Java expert, but I know enough to churn out these 2 kick ass applets:
Back! Finally got my DirecTV DSL kit today, after a month of being on dialup. Ahh, broadband is good. =) One of the first things I did once I got re-connected was to run a speed test on DSLReports.com, and it showed that I'm getting around 1.03M/sec
Bye Pacbell I'm getting ready to make the switch from Pacbell DSL to DirecTV DSL. I've put up with their crappy service for too long. I got sick of having to wait hours for an email to come in, ping times that take seconds instead of milliseconds, and
Alive I know... no updates in a while. Sorry about that. Spent 3 weekends last month in San Diego, for some more freebie classes, and also helped Tracy get the hardware needed to complete her system. It's all put together now, and I have some sweet pics of it,
Registrar Switch I just switched over to a new registrar (DROA.com – almost half the price of Network Solutions prices), and renewed Underactive.net for another 2 years. As a result of the switch, there might be some funkiness trying to get into this site as the new info for the nameservers
Gentoo linux I've been playing around with a new Linux distro called Gentoo Linux. What makes this different from the rest is that it's a source-based distribution, meaning that everything is compiled off source code (as opposed to installing binaries), and compiled with CPU optimization that you specify.
PS2 Ethernet Beta Test I forgot to mention that I received my PS2 Ethernet Adapter 2 Fridays ago. It also came with a setup DVD along with 2 online game demos – one called "Frequency" and "NFL Gameday." Despite the embossed "HDD" label, the hard drive is not included.
Segway Gosh derned it! I placed a bid on one of the Segway scooter auctions over at Amazon.com (scroll down... waaaay down). Right now it's at $105,000. Ah well. I guess I'll just have to walk/bike/drive from now on. For a good laugh,
Edumacated This morning, I enrolled in an online Java class at Foothill College. Hopefully, this should open up more doors as far as the job search is concerned. I've had to pass over a number of QA-related job postings because of the requirement to know Java. Knowing an automated
