Password Retention Policies

It never used to bother me, but now it does. Every time I hear about one of those laptops stolen with secrets, but "no secure password", I believe that corporate password retention policies are to blame. I have now come to the point, where I work, that the various password systems, with their vastly different password policies, have collided to make it impossible for me to keep up anymore. I will now be one of the countless hoardes that puts my passwords on a sticky note above my notebook's keyboard....

2 May 2009 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

[dev] CHAIR Programming Platform 3.0

What is CHAIR? CHAIR is an offset platform for programming, which is specifically made to support a programmer's approach to offset horizontal surface interfacing to tables. It does not qualify as a fully integrated development environment, but instead is a purpose built platform for supporting a programmer without getting in the way of what the programmer does best! As a programming platform CHAIR is already proven to lead to greatly reduced project timelines when compared to similar projects done without the CHAIR Platform....

31 Mar 2009 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Spring and It's Been a While

Hello everyone. I've been very busy with work and friends lately. I also don't have an internet connection at home, so I've been neglecting this blog. It's not that I haven't seen anything of interest lately, and it's not that I've had nothing to say. I've just been busy. First -- I lost my TV. Not really that I lost a TV. I don't have one, but I did have a TV capture card, and I was able to get over-the-air signals with it....

16 Mar 2009 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Revisit: 'Attack and Muder at the Drum Tower' [Updated]

Back in August, I wrote a blog entry about the attack that occurred in the second level of the Beijing drum tower. I received a comment on that story that I deeply hope is true, but ... partly because it was anonymous (see update), and mostly because there have been no further news reports that I've been able to find, I have no way of being sure. Here is a copy of that comment:...

8 Dec 2008 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink