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404.gov

cyberkni — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:25:01 +0000

Apparently 404.gov links to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Funny in my opinion given the nerdy meaning of the number 404. I assume that 404.gov exists due to Section 404 of SOX, but its still amusing.

Planning when to arrive at the airport

cyberkni — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:25:57 +0000

My favorite agency has provided a handy website to give you estimated wait times at the airport given the location, date, and time. Now I know for my flight this Saturday the average wait is around 5 minutes. Nice!
Security Checkpoint Wait Times via Lifehacker.

Thoughts on Crash

cyberkni — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 05:15:18 +0000

Just finished watching the movie Crash. It just hurt to watch it, not because it sucked but because the people it were just suffering through thier lives. Since they suffer they take out the pain they have on the world around them, manifested in racism, anger, frustration, drugs, and violence. The effects of this all come back and all the characters are changed for life, some for good, some for bad. There is not real dominant emotion over this movie made me feel but it made me thankful for the place I am in and for the way I live. God fills that void that the world’s problems rips open. I’d be a wreck.
God is Good.

Tech. Support

cyberkni — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:37:20 +0000

I would love to do this once to some of the more exploitive home users who ask for help a lot.

I’m Done!

cyberkni — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:30:00 +0000

Vector analysis exam is over, my on-campus work obligations are fulfilled. I am complete. Time to move home!

Grades!

cyberkni — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:58:15 +0000

Grades are arriving, so far so good. My first final I ended up with a B+ in the course(Math of Finance). My Data Communication Network Devices course was an A(as expected). The irony is all the course leading up to this one I got C’s in. Why? because the classes sucked, the material was irrelevant and unrelated. They revamped all the classes one semester after I took them so Dave is getting A’s in them. Three more grades pending(2 of them *should* be A’sc, one more final(Wednesday) and then….I’m done. For real done.

Once In a While They Get It Right

cyberkni — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:58:16 +0000

Senate was unable to reauthorize the PATRIOT Act and I’m pretty happy about that. I really do not see the benifits in trading significant amounts of privacy so that the government can try to stop terrorists. Why? It will not work, any intelligent human can thwart any number of security measures so by giving away our privacy we are just losing privacy and gaining very little.
Now all they need to do is figure out that the DMCA is another useless act and get rid of it. I won’t count on the government not playing to big business with that.

Maths of finance

cyberkni — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:51:49 +0000

One would call this an experimental post. Right now I am typing this out on my Blackberry while in math class.
We just spent around 48 minutes debating how to solve an annuity problem. I still don’t think my professor ever wrote the right anwser on the board.
Now that I have mentally checked out of the lecture she moves on to the next problem.
Just a mini-post. Turkey details later.

A new beginning

cyberkni — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:30:04 +0000

This post marks a transition from the days of LiveJournal to a new WordPress blog that I will host myself.
I’ve been fighting the idea of switching to my own blog system for a long time because of the easy of use that LiveJournal offers. This changed when I did some research to setup Andrea’s blog/site. I had first configured a Movable Type system but it seemed to complicated to just hand over to someone to use as a means to maintain a website. Then came WordPress, which I had actually glanced over in my first round of evaluations. On the second look I realized it was a pretty slick system that offered most of the features I needed.
After some hacking all my LiveJournal posts(sans comments) have been migrated over to this system for long-term preservation.