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Before my father passed away, I went to visit him and saw the state of his relatively small house. There was stuff everywhere, stuff I had no idea why he was keeping or what (if anything) he was planning to do with it. It made me realize just how deep the packrat genes run in…

While I was driving around today, I heard a couple of very loud BOOMs. Turns out President Obama was in Seattle pimping for Senator Patty Murray and a seaplane breached the restricted airspace around the area. A couple of F-15s scrambled to the area, causing a sonic boom that was heard all over the Puget…

One of the things I did recently was go through my dad’s old camcorder videos and digitize them. Fortunately, he had a camcorder with a Firefire port, and I had a Mac, so getting the videos off was pretty easy, albeit time consuming. Given that I barely communicated with my dad during the past couple…

Top to bottom: 1. The base station for a Skype phone (the Skype Dual Phone) 2. Linksys Cable Modem (CM100) 3. Check Point VPN-1 EDGE W 4. Safe@Office 500W with ADSL 5. Linksys WRT54GS Yes, I actually do use all this stuff in my network.

I haven’t been blogging much lately. Also, it seems like every time I go onto any one of my blogs (and I have several), I have maintenance to do. Upgrades. Plugins. What have you. Quite honestly, it’s more overhead than I want right now. Even though I prefer to “own” my content on a server…

I was listening to one of President Obama’s weekly addresses where he was complaining about the recent Supreme Court decision that lifts bans on corporate spending to influence elections. While I’m all for disclosures on who is really behind these campaign-related attack ads, I made a connection that I hadn’t made before.Obama mentioned the famous…

I believe everyone has a right to exist–a right no one else has a claim to. I believe in pursuing your own rational self-interest and happiness. I believe no one has the right to force their will on or unwillingly extract value from others. I believe in free, voluntary exchange of value to mutual benefit.

A comment I’ve heard from a number of people is that my new job at Check Point has me traveling a bit more. My wife certainly thinks so. Between more trips to the office and speaking engagements, I’m in the air at least once a month now.This time, I’m going to San Diego for Check…

More than a decade ago, I made a name for myself helping customers with Check Point firewalls. I was a technical support engineer that supported customers directly. I helped out on the mailing lists of the day (and even started my own). I ran a fairly popular FAQ web site about the product. I even…

Today is officially the last day of my vacation. I’ve never taken a three week vacation before, especially one where I was home the entire time. I wasn’t sure what to expect, quite honestly.Meanwhile, I tackled tasks that had been piling up. Went through the last of our boxes that were still packed from our…