Trump Boasts of Power Not Attraction

Locker room talk, no it isn't necessarily a locker room.  In any place where one is surrounded by only peers, language and boasts can be sometimes be observed.  The braggadocio is always trying to make themselves seem better. In the context of sexual liaisons here are some samples of things I have heard: She was all over me She couldn’t keep her hands off me I leaned in to ask her something and she just started kissing me She couldn’t resist me...

15 Oct 2016 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Misplaced Pride - and Getting Over It

"You wanted to be a manager so badly, that you'd probably be a good one.  Now you are." Someone said this to me who had heard the same from someone else.  This comes from about three years ago, and was said in the context of my then current role (having moved from process and supervisory management to direct people management).  It bothered me. I first got to be in management, some 20 years ago....

14 Oct 2016 · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink

BLOG: The Sad State of 3D on a PC

This month, I built myself a new gaming PC, and decided to spend just a little extra money for the nVidia 3D Vision 2 package with a pair of shutter glasses and a USB controlled IR timing transmitter.  What I'm talking about here is PC gaming in stereoscopic 3D.  This is gaming that not only depicts a 3D play environment, but also looks 3D to the player's eyes. I remember that Descent came out in 1995, and it had support for a virtual reality headset called the Forte VFX-1....

14 Nov 2015 · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink

[Geek] Authban : 4 Years Later

Four years ago, I wrote about a script that I had been working on called Authban (though I didn't name it at the time): http://blog.vollink.com/2011/09/geek-attack-vectors-and-twitter.html I first started running a custom script to block IP addresses that tried too many times to login to ssh back in 2010.  At the time, the script (and my home web host) was running on an Ubuntu virtual server.  The name, Authban, surfaced in early 2011, as I organized the script to do more than just block ssh....

16 Sep 2015 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink