Monthly Archives: May 2005

Friendly Northern Neighbors

By | May 31, 2005

My wife is in White Horse, Canada, this week with some of her family, because her late grandfather was named the “Pioneer of the Year” by the Yukon Territory Transportation Museum. The big ceremony is tomorrow. Her grandfather was a bush pilot famous for providing the first airmail delivery to the Yukon Territory and for… Read More »

More on Seisint and LexisNexis

By | May 25, 2005

Recently I posted about being one of the people whose personal information was potentially exposed due to allegedly lax security at Seisint (owned by LexisNexis (0wn3d by hackers)). Today a story appeared on Wired.com on the hackers who claim to have initiated the break-in. At first I was relieved to read that it was a… Read More »

Syndication Feed Problems

By | May 23, 2005

Sorry if anyone reading my blog through an RSS or Atom feed had problems with it during the last few weeks. I upgraded to WordPress 1.5.1 a couple of weeks ago. Everything seemed fine, but then I noticed about a week ago that I was no longer seeing my own syndication feeds in Bloglines. The… Read More »

White Numbers on Red

By | May 18, 2005

If you don’t live in California or you’ve never lived here, this post may not be very meaningful to you. Then again, maybe your State does something similar. For a long time, I’ve wondered what was the meaning behind the stickers I would often see in the rear windows of cars, typically in the upper… Read More »

Sandstorms in Iraq

By | May 8, 2005

While I have often heard about sandstorms in deserts, especially lately in Iraq, I’ve never seen a photo or video of one. While I can’t offer a video, here are some photos passed on by one of my relatives who is currently stationed in Iraq. Okay, now I understand why they make such a big… Read More »

CVS Server on Fedora

By | May 7, 2005

After much gnashing of teeth, I got CVS running as a service on my laptop and am able to access it using the CVS client Eclipse plug-in. The key was finding this page posted, at least in part, by Glenn Robitaille. Without it, I suspect I would still be poring over the CVS and xinetd… Read More »

Seisint Victim

By | May 5, 2005

A few weeks ago, I learned that I was one of the few hundred thousand victims of Seisint’s carelessness in monitoring the users of their public and private data record aggregation service. Seisint is owned by LexisNexis, which is owned by Reed Elsevier. At first, LexisNexis thought 32,000 individuals were affected. Now the number is… Read More »