Thinking outside the box!

University of Texas at Dallas Loses 6,000 IDs

Posted Mon, 12/18/2006 - 09:24 by Isaac

The UT Dallas breach is not the first breach of data the University of Texas System has seen even this year. In October, the UT System appointed a chief information security officer to build and oversee a system-wide plan to protect UT's information after some recent exposures. Read more

Virginia Proposal Seeks to Control Webusers

Posted Mon, 12/11/2006 - 21:43 by Isaac

The Washington Post just ran an article that Virgina has a proposed law that would require sex offenders to register their email and IM screen names in an attempt to monitor and control their presence on social networking sites like MySpace.com

From the article: Read more

Google serves different SERP to different computers

Posted Thu, 11/30/2006 - 21:50 by Isaac

I have been trying to increase the rating of my new site The World's Greatest Guy on Google's SERP. I had been #1 on Google for the first 9 months of the sites's life and then it just went away. If was a huge disappointment... Google changed its mind. Yahoo and MSN both list the site as #1 for, of course "the world's greatest guy". Read more

NBC's Today misses the real YouTube story

Posted Thu, 11/30/2006 - 08:50 by Isaac

I was just watching the Today show on NBC and they had a story about how YouTube was aiding criminals by hosting videos on how to defeat locks through lock picking. Read more

Digg your way to better SERP

Posted Wed, 11/29/2006 - 21:49 by Isaac

About 1 year ago I bought the domain name theworldsgreatestguy.com as kind of an in-side SEO joke around our office at the start-up PrivaSign. I was trying to SEO our company site and once over beers joked that it would be funny to say to someone in a bar that according to Google I was the "world's greatest guy". Well for about 9 months that is exactly what Google said with very little SEO effort of my own. Read more

Silly Silly Surveys - Hilton Hotels plays 20 million questions

Posted Mon, 10/16/2006 - 09:21 by Isaac

I recently stayed at a Hilton Hotel. The stay was very nice with no major complaints (larger selection of cable channels would be nice). Service and people were very professional. And then I get this email asking for a feedback from my experience: Read more

Tracking airport passengers with RFID

Posted Sun, 10/15/2006 - 18:05 by Isaac

Airport travellers may be given RFID braclets rather than boarding passes to increase airport security.

This technology improvement would use embedded RFID tags into wrist bands or boarding passes to allow authorities to track passenger movement around terminal buildings. The technology could be linked with a record of the flyer which could include photos or other bio-unique data. Read more

Alternatives to Windows Explorer

Posted Sun, 10/15/2006 - 13:58 by Isaac

Here is a great overview site of various alternativess to windows explorer. Many of them are free and the article includes screenshots for a quick review.

15 Windows Explorer alternatives compared and reviewed

Here is a chart with direct links to the site's review Read more

Safety and Security through inconvenience - Seattle's 911 website

Posted Sat, 10/14/2006 - 23:25 by Isaac

An article appeared on the Seattle Post-Intellegencer regarding a website that displayed the Seattle Live 911 website feed on a Google map. The city's response? Change the text to images in an attempt to prevent the map display for security reasons.

The Seattle Fire Department's Real-Time 911 Fire Dispatch response: Read more