New Year’s resolutions 2012

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Here’s my short list of New Year’s resolutions for 2012. I will come back to this post and strike through what I’ve completed, as I complete it.

I will also bump this post in December 2012 before making another Post in January 2013.

  • Read THESE books.
  • Eat at every restaurant in Richmond’s Fan district (neighborhoods include Oregon Hill, VCU, Broad Street Corridor, SOFA (Southern Fan), and Carver), or at least every restaurant on this list:
  • Complete Code Year 2012 at Codecademy: Got behind by a month, gave up.
  • Enable 2-step verification on my Google accounts.
  • Enable full-disk encryption on every laptop, desktop and server I own. For the Windows boxes, I will be replacing Bitlocker for Truecrypt. For the Linux boxes, I will continue to use dm-crypt/LUKS/cryptsetup.
  • Buy an ugly Christmas sweater before the holidays.
  • Import all of my photos (thousands) into Picasa and tag them for faster searching. Having them in folders is no longer working for the number of photos I have.

Image Writer for Windows

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Image Writer for Windows: A tool used for writing images to USB sticks or SD/CF cards on Windows.

This program was initially written to fill a need for Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) Netbook Remix. Recently, it has grown in popularity for other project developers, namely Arm development projects (Android, Ubuntu on Arm, etc). Unfortunately, the developers have been retasked to other projects. Hopefully, one of us can spare a little time to bring this app up to date with requested features and needed fixes.

https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/

Reading List, January-February 2012

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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
Kevin D. Mitnick (2011)

The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers
Kevin D. Mitnick (2005)

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
Kevin D. Mitnick (2003)

Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life
David Allen (2008)

Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done
David Allen (2004)

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen (2002)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle (1969)

Microwave relay tower in Lightfoot, Virginia

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Took a picture of the microwave relay tower in Lightfoot, Virginia the other day. Thought I’d share…

During the 1950s, the AT&T Long Lines’ system of microwave relay links carried the majority of US long distance telephone traffic as well as intercontinental television network signals. The main motivation to use microwave radio instead of cable was that a large capacity could be installed quickly and at less cost. It was expected at that time that the annual operating costs for microwave radio would be greater than for cable. There were two main reasons that a large capacity had to be introduced suddenly: Pent up demand for long distance telephone service, because of the hiatus during the war years, and the new medium of television, which needed more bandwidth than radio.