Neither Google nor I have seen this written down elsewhere, so I figured I’d commit it to internet permanence:
The dreaded China Set acceleration syndrome!
We have China Service(s?) in the following amounts:
1 My Grandmother
2 Her Grandmother (partial)
3 My Mom
4 Her Mom
5 Our Christmas Set
6 Our Wedding set
Plus uncounted crystal, Silver, and tea sets. Honestly, I sometimes wish Colorado got earthquakes.
I feel for my future daughters in law, as they’re be dealing with 9-15 sets each. 
5 days ago, a box was shipped from Hong Kong. Today, it’s hanging off my Aspire One (well, it might be more accurate to say the Aspire is hanging off the battery) It’s still on it’s first charge, so there’s no real telling what the ultimate battery life is, but it should be a significant improvement from the original 3-cell. It added roughly 1/2 – 3/4 lb. to the weight (from 2 lbs 3 oz to 2 lbs, 12 oz)
Update: Just an FYI. The battery by itself is just shade over 1 lb. (by 1/4 oz) and it’s first full charge lasted roughly 7 hours….3 playing a video, 2.5 playing streaming music and 90 minutes running Cinebench (at which the Aspire blows.
but I didn’t think it’d be a contender for Pixars Renderfarm)
With the WiFi off and the screen dim, it’s estimated that it’d last over 10.5 hours…that’d be a LONG stint of Great American Novel writing.
I have an electrical intermittent circuit that I’ve traced down to one of the turn signals. I mis-rememberd it being a sealed item, but a little additional review shows the bits and pieces are easily (and fully) disassemblable. (yes, I’m verbing a verb)
No! We haven’t died! We’re just busy and I haven’t had a chance to blog. you know….blog:
updates to be posted shortly (or not)
Projects in the works: A website folks can post their hobbies to (yeah, right), and the rebuild of a Rochester Carb
I’m going through all the old footage I’ve taken and came across this little gem:
I posted that I was going to Blackhat with nothing more than my iPhone. Since someone found that interesting (and linked to my article) I figured I’d throw out my fidings:
The Good:
There was Nothing I couldn’t do that I needed to. The iPhone provided me with entertainment (music, movies, books), kept me in the loop at work (email, appointments, IM) and kept me in touch with my other friends at the con (blew waaay through my 200 SMS cap). I flat LOVE this phone.
The Bad:
Blackhat/DEFCON is all about hacking. Being a security professional, It kinda sucked not being able to slurp evil packets with the rest of my comrades.When I return (and I WILL return), I’ll have a sacrificial lamb in tow for doing nasty networky things.
The Ugly:
Both conventions announced that schedule updates would occur via twitter. No problem, in fact, there’s a coulple of cool twitter iPhone apps. I downloaded twitteriffic and created an account.
My email is secure, I’m making sure I’m using https where I can, I’m making sure I have WiFi off when I use twitteriffic (it doesn’t appear to use a secure connection.) Guess what makes it to the sheepwall? Me! :O
Now, Racecar drivers know if you never ever wreck, you’re not racing fast enough. I’m not sure if that happens in the Security realm, but hey, I’ve seen and participated in enough ‘events’ that it doesn’t bug me much anymore. The account was a throwaway account, and the simple, easily cracked password was a gimmie. The Sheep Wall operators offer to take your name off the wall, but really, if THEY know your name and password, a dozen OTHER folks in the same room do too.
So, can a guy spend a week with an iPhone, the sync cable, and the USB charger? Absolutely. Would I do it again? Without reservations. Would I return to Defcon so equipped? Naw man, I wanna roll around in the mud with everybody else.
I’m running off to a week at Blackhat/DEFCON, in what may be a VERY misplaced idea, I’ll be living entirely out of my iPhone for the week. We’ll see how THAT goes. 
If I don’t get this pictures linked to the homepage, I’ll never send them out to friends and family…then they’ll never be seen. That would be bad. 
So: Parkerdays 2008
My OLD ANCIENT WEBSITE, circa 1997 (WITH WEDDING PICTURES!)
The Highlands Ranch Hotrod show 2008
There. Lots of pictures. Go look at em!
Nothing to see here, just posting from an iPhone…that’s just so friggen sweet!
In the off hope that someone actually _subscribed_ to the RSS feed, I figured I’d update you on whay you hvan’t heard anything from me for awhile. Truth is, the server’s been broken for a bit. If you’re in the industry, you’ll know about, and can peg the reason on Debian and their problems with OpenSSL.
Turns out the fix is as bad as the problem when you’re not physically sitting at the box. Updating the conf files turns off password authentication…meaning, if you’re not sitting at the console and you update the configuration…you’re locked out.
So, two weeks of downtime while I got around to fixing the problem. And I’ve got three weeks for news, photos and events to catch up on….when I get around to it.