- Most recent Wired Article
- Boing Boing - Cory's probably just trying to write an interesting blog, but it got a little snarky if you ask me.
- Wired
- Dan's so famous that some jokesters made a Fake Dan Kaminsky board at DefCon
But I have to give a special shout-out & thankyouverymuch to Dan, his girlfriend Crystal, and Johnny for taking care of me at Toorcon SD. They were all extremely kind and generous and gracious to me. Here's Divide's photos of Dan, Crystal, and me from earlier in the night. (Go to Divide's photostream on Flickr and Toorcon specific gallery)
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A friend of mine forwarded an email to me asking me to review it & help them discern whether or not it was an email hoax. It was. Specifically, it was a hoax about a virus... but it could have been about anything scary. Last week I received the email hoax about carjacking from someone else. Anyway, below, you'll find a snippet of my response to this type of email. Typically, I included a link to snopes.com in an effort to educate the rube.
Here's 2 hints for detecting hoax emails:
- Any email that requests that you forward it to your friends is almost always a hoax of some kind.
- If the email is written in a colored, big font, with lots of exclamation points, it is almost guaranteed to be a hoax. Serious people who write about really important or really scary stuff usually do it in a small black font... no extra emphasis, no exclamation points, and with little or no emotion. On the other hand, if it sounds like it was written by a Vulcan lawyer, maybe it is real.
I can't save the world, but I try.
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Michael and I started INeedCoffee.com 8 years ago today. Go visit INeedCoffee now.
Years ago, I used the site to showcase my skills as a technical writer. INeedCoffee used to have a very comprehensive set of help files for the back-end; which I'd show as a part of job interviews. How funny is that?Over the years, I've played many roles....
- site administrator - when Michael needed time off,
- frequent contributor - (especially as a last minute contributor when others didn't follow through,
- content ghost writer - there are some articles that I've written under pseudonyms to disguise my identity,
- us writer - I wrote a lot of the INeedCoffee Staff content pieces,
- editor - for much of the contributed content,
- html slinger - marking up content through many of the re-designs,
- product designer - creating the INeedCoffee store content
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- There is something old (the Lura.net banner images are reused from my 2002 design)
- The .css file is new, and content has been updated.
- Some of the photos are borrowed from MAS' site --- we were at the locations together, but I haven't gotten all of my photos organized yet.
- Blue... well, there isn't much that is blue, which is new. Since there was a lot of color and a lot of blue in the last site. I went for minimalistic, clean design.
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