Chris Meller

You know what the one thing I can never seem to find when I’m looking for it?

A mini-USB cable. You know, the one with the regular end on one side and that freakish little trapezoid end on the other? I can never find one of the damn things…

Like today. I bought a Motorola Razr V3c from Verizon. Well, I want to hook it up to my PowerBook using the built-in USB port. Unfortunately, I can’t find a damn mini cable. I know I have to have one around here somewhere, but damned if I know where. It’s not in any of the regular boxes such a cable would be in…

Back in January, I mentioned McAfee Wireless Home Network Security, and how it got me thinking about securing a home network more easily with a one-stop solution.

It took me longer than I’d have liked, but I finally got around to checking it out near the end of April and worked it in as my research paper for my Wireless Networking and Appliances class. The experience was both a surprise and a let-down at the same time, so it proved to be a worthwhile experiment in the end.

I want to do this up right (with screenshots and what not), so it’s going to take a while yet for me to get the post together, but I wanted to let everyone know it was coming. Stay tuned for more details!

As a sort of follow-up to my last post, in which I said it was bound to be a good Monday since I got some new Security Monkey goodness this morning, I thought I’d let you all know how my day actually went (at least thus far).

Class was spiffy. We were wrapping up our review for the CCNA, and I was just on the ball. Every question they lobbed at me, I was smacking it right back. Sure there are a few areas I need to review before I go up to battle that beast, but I think I’m off to a good start so far.

After class, I headed off to work. I finished a few manual tape backups and checked in on our automated network backup, just to make sure all the changes I made last Friday actually went alright and everything finished over the weekend without incident. It looked like they had, so I restored the original backup schedules for a final test tonight. After importing about 4,000 claims, I finished babysitting the tape backup that was running, started the next one, and headed out for a late lunch at the holy green shrine to the coffee bean (Starbucks).

On the way back from lunch, I was behind a Greer City cop, doing 50 in a 35 down South Highway 14. All of a sudden, we pass a large Ford Blazer-type vehicle and I catch blue lights out of the corner of my eye as an unmarked Greenville County Sherrif car behind me nabs him (the Blazer). Wow, That was close, I think to myself as I slow down to a mere 10 over the speedlimit and continue on my way back to work.

Just as I’m about to make the merge from I-85 onto I-385, doing 78 or so in a 60, I come around a bend and see more blue lights, as a State Trooper slows and pulls off the road behind a Ford Taurus. Wow, if I’d been about 20 seconds earlier, I could have been the car he decided to nab instead.

Is it really possible that I could have been that lucky twice in a row?

Oh, it is. And I owe it all to Security Monkey. His bloggy goodness has become a prophecy. When he blogs, life is good. When he doesn’t blog… Well, we won’t speak of such dark times (but notice that there was no case file published last Monday before my accident. I think that speaks for itself…).

Security Monkey, I plead with you… Continue the amazing case files… for my sake!

Imagine my unbridled glee when I got to work this morning after class, revved up NetNewsWire, and saw this:

Any Monday that starts off with a new Security Monkey blog entry can’t be all bad. His chimpy goodness hath been bestowed on me, and that was like an omen, telling me that the rest of the day was going to be alright.

Boy, those skies clouded up really quick:

Oh, the humanity… How can they do this to me? Some IIS-loving BOFH at ITToolbox needs to be FIRED for farking up their blogs. This transgression shall not stand, I tell you!

To arms, my monkey-loving friends, to armmmssss! We shall storm the castle and force them to give us their monkey secrets! They can’t stop us, I tell you! Victory and bannannas shall be ours!