Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2010
Normally I don’t think a lot about American culture, but the other day I realized just how profound the 60s was on America and the world. I’ve been listening to a Beatles station on Pandora for a couple of weeks, and the other day while working I was keeping an ear tuned to the lyrics […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2010
It’s been a full week since I moved into my own apartment. It’s starting to feel more like I’m grounded now instead of being on four vacations for the past five weeks. Pretty much everything is put away or tossed in the bed-less bedroom. I’m trying hard not to buy all new furnishings from IKEA, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2010
Let’s say you’re operating on sketchy wifi and the quiet guy in the corner on his laptop is sniffing your traffic. Web is already easy, you fire up SSH port forwarding and tell your browser to use yourself as a proxy. Other apps aren’t so easy. Not everything supports/honors SOCKS5 proxies, or any sort of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2010
I finally found & leased an apartment yesterday! It’s a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, located in a mid-rise building in downtown Redmond. It’s a corner unit on the second floor, one side overlooks the courtyard and the other overlooks the street. I originally went to look at a 1 bedroom, which I didn’t like because […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 30th, 2010
I discovered today there’s a way to bring IPv6 connectivity to your iPhone, even if you don’t have v6 wifi nor v6 cellular data. There’s a Cisco AnyConnect client for iPhone which speaks SSL VPN (TLS/DTLS) to an ASA. The release notes say “Access to internal IPv4 and IPv6 network resources”. I take this to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2010
My host’s home network is behind NAT, has no 6to4 connectivity and the router squashes IP protocol 41 (6in4). Normally in this situation I’d fire up a Teredo tunnel, but here it’s pretty unreliable. My control traffic to Microsoft’s Teredo server goes to Singapore, and who knows where my closest Teredo relays are. After some […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2010
After my great journey I arrived in Redmond Saturday-before-last (18th). Saturday night was a nifty welcome-to-the-PNW get-together at Coppola-Leigh. Sunday I rented a storage unit and unloaded all my belongings. Thanks to Alex & Victoria for coming to help unload awesome heavy couch and the rest of my boxes! I’ve taken residence in the dining […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 5th, 2010
I never thought I’d leave Texas. Earlier this year I remember re-affirming to a friend that I’d always live here. I might live in Austin or somewhere in west Texas. I might not necessarily buy a house, but I’d be around somewhere to call the Lone Star state “home”. I love the state, its history, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2010
God bless the blue-shirts at Apple stores for helping non-tech savvy users find what they want, but they try too hard when you already know what you want. I had heard stories of this, but hadn’t experienced it yet. I walked into the Apple store today to buy a Mini. That’s it. After waiting around […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 5th, 2010
I’ve been at 155 for a week now, so I’ve officially lost 20 pounds. huh. I was totally not expecting to get down to that weight at all. Now I wish I hadn’t taken my old skinnier clothes to Goodwill a few months ago, as I’ve ran out of belt notches. I guess I should […]
