"I'm going to take Audrey and we'll disappear. I'm pretty good at that. If you send anyone after us ... I'll kill 'em. I'm pretty good at that, too."

I have discovered anew why I love OS X's window compositor. For the longest time, I've known about a few key chords for taking screenshots. Command-Shift-3 takes a shot of the whole screen, Command-Shift-4 turns the cursor into a crosshair and lets you select a region of the screen to capture ( Read more... )

I just earned my CCSE+ today. That's the third of the three main certifications that Check Point currently offers. They're working on a fourth and I plan to take it as soon as it's available.

And now, to sleep I go.

Me: "Hi. Thank you for calling Check Point, my name is Robert. Is this a new service request ( Read more... )

Tekisui gave me one of his spare Treos this weekend. While the OS isn't as nice as my Newton's, it's still quite a cool little device. I've got an SSH client for it, complete with an unimaginably small default font. Seems to run the battery down awfully quickly when I'm using it, though. :-/

For those who didn't already know, Texas' governor Rick Perry recently issued an executive order mandating Gardasil for all girls going into the 6th grade. Gardasil is a vaccine from Merck designed to prevent infection by the two HPV strains responsible for 70% of the cervical cancer cases in the U.S ( Read more... )

Please, please someone tell me that this is a joke.

I refuse to believe that people would actually debate whether Kermit the frog is a sinner or not.

We can not wait much longer
We want happiness back
We want control of our bodies
Everything we've lacked

( From off to on ... From off to on )

"Robert really went the extra mile for us. It wasn't until after I said that I didn't mean to take up half his shift that I found out his shift had ended 1.5 hours prior to the end of our conversation. Robert was extremely professional, knowledgeable and courteous. He's the best tech I've worked with, not only at Check Point, but across all ( Read more... )

I realize that not everybody is interested in this more technical stuff, so I'm putting it behind a cut.

( How I set up my Mac for my coworkers )