Mea Vita: Carpe Diem

A coworker who was visiting San Diego in September mentioned that he always travels with a pocket-sized  travel router so I decided to chec...

Java became what Ada wanted to be. Write once, run everywhere.  Javascript became what Java  applets  wanted to be. Mobile code in a web bro...

Circa 2003 I was reminiscing through some old photos this past weekend and I came across these pictures of my old server farm… In the days b...

I was recently reminded of the unpleasant limitation of consumer appliances, such as Kindles or HomePods, on shared (public or semi-public) ...

Yesterday, I was at Balboa Park during a parade which had a couple hundred thousand attendees. Whenever that many people get squeezed int...

The heart of the Timer class. I left out a simple tip from my " Tricks I Learned At Apple: Steve Jobs Load Testing " piece abo...

This is surprising and it doesn't make me feel good. HTML Injection in the bottom right. This morning I received an e-mail from m...

Why are they called cookies ? Good question... no one really knows. A cookie was originally designed to store small amounts of informati...

I recently had a slew of unauthorized attempted logins on my iCloud account which kept locking me out, requiring a password reset. I called ...

I have a DNS hijacking theory. Route 53 is Amazon's elegant DNS web service. DNS is the part of the Internet that converts domain n...

Speedtest: 94 Mb/s on LAN vs. 314 Mb/s on WiFi This week, I bought a new TV and hooked it up at home. The key differences between ...

I recently befriended a guy who used to work in the mayor's office. During his tenure he oversaw several key transportation initiatives ...

Ten years ago, I signed up for AT&T's top of the line business class DSL in Carlsbad. It's worked very well with five static I...

Have you ever taken a look at all the personal wireless networks around your home? If you live in a house, you might notice a couple of your...

After the spectacular LinkedIn IPO a lot of people have been asking if this social media company is really worth almost $8 billion or could ...

In the 1960's and early 1970's, my father worked for JC Penney's quality assurance (QA) department. In those days, JC Penney us...

socalTECH.com picked up this article for publication . Net neutrality is a complicated and controversial subject. The principle states that ...

Flash is great in that it is ubiquitous. There is not a single, decent, desktop web browser that doesn't have Flash installed. But, the ...

Are you tired of seeing attacks against port 22 (SSH) on your public servers? The attacks generally look like the following log snippet whic...

Overview The Domain Name System, better known as DNS, is probably the most critical part of the Internet. DNS converts domain names, such as...