Monthly Archives: August 2006

Is Security Important?

I recieved a comment on my post regarding what I did to secure my network. John said:
Josh, I too want to be “secure� but for some reason I don’t really give a rat’s arse if one of my ports are open.
To me, this was an interesting comment. I realize that this particular post could have [...]

Securing My Network

I have been wanting to secure my WiFi network for some time now. I figured now was as good of a time as any since my family is out of town visiting family. Warning: this may be boring to some of you. But please read it still. Perhaps you will still learn something.
Both my DSL [...]

Photobucket Failed

I continued my quest to find a photo sharing site tonight. I also mentioned that photobucket is the most popular. I have to ask why is photobucket the most popular. I signed up for an account and I was completely disappointed.
First of all, if you keep your browser on your album for a while, there [...]

Mountain West Football on Comcast - But Not DirecTV or DISH

Some time ago the Mountain West Conference signed a deal with CSTV to show their games on TV. This current deal replaced the deal previously signed with ESPN. At the time, I didn’t really think much of the deal. In fact, I thought somewhat highly of it because ESPN did a terrible job of promoting [...]

MLB is Stupid

I have to give my commentary on how stupid Major League Baseball is for preventing fantasy leagues from using player stats and names without paying them lots of money (story).
How can they say they own something like that? Do newspapers have to pay to show box scores? When’s the last time you read an article [...]

Tour of (Northern) Utah

The Tour of Utah was last week. From what I understand, it was big success. It’s great that we do have an actual bike race here. But I do have a few comments about it.
There were six stages this year. Not quite the Tour de France but I think it’s a good number. Ths six [...]

Remote Backup - Mozy

Today, I got scared that I would someday lose data on my computer such as email and digital photos. I don’t like to think of what would that be like. So I finally decided to try a remote backup service.
A while back I had heard of a local company called Berkeley Data Systems that started [...]

Surf the Net At Work

For those slackers out there that love to surf the Internet while on the clock, check out workfriendly.net. You type in a website and a new window pops up that makes it look like you’re reading a Word doc with the web site inside the window. It’s pretty cool.
I tried to go to the site [...]

Scoble, I Missed You Last Week

It turns out Scoble was in Utah last week on Friday. He had an open invite to brunch to the Lion House Pantry. I would have loved to have gone but we were already headed out to a mini vacation to St. George.
That would have been a fun time. I love how he just invites [...]

St. George is Messy

This past weekend my family and I went to St. George Utah to visit my family. It’s always nice to return to St. George to visit friends and family.
There is one thing that I don’t like about going there. St. George is messy. That’s not to say that it is full of garbage and other [...]