A Peculiar Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Remember the big flap that’s been made about the National ID card that the government has been trying to foist off on us, requiring states to become “Real ID compliant”? This is the same “Real ID” that several states [...]

We can now raise a cheer for a group of a group of bright people in the Chaos Computer Club of Hamburg, Germany along with colleagues from the University of Virginia have succeeded in cracking the encryption scheme used on the Mifare Classic RFID chip sold by NXP.
It turns out that the proprietary encryption scheme [...]

“Sneaker-net” is a term from back a few years when files would be moved from one computer to another by carrying ‘em around on 5 1/4 inch floppies. Back in those days Internet connections weren’t very common. Nor were local networks. If you were online those days it was by way of [...]

I saw an item on slashdot a few days ago that’s been gnawing at me for a while now. It involves a story about somebody referred to as “Australia’s Geekiest Man” and the fact that in his effort to create a software controlled environemnt that he’s had an RFID tag implanted in his arm.
Currently [...]

Have you heard of Cuppy’s Coffee? I haven’t but then I live in a rural area. Apparently they’re a nationwide chain where it is going to be more convenient to go there because a company called Medina Management Strategies is currently negotiating a deal for several franchises including Cuppy’s, to install flush mounted [...]

Todays review-du-jour brought me to a site that specialize in a subset of the home decor world, the clock. The first thing I noticed right off is that the name of the store and the url is also it’s phone number 1-800-4clocks.com. That all buy itself is going to make them memorable.
I’m sure [...]

Infomercials, they’re a weird breed because they’re the kind of commercial that lasts for 30 to 60 minutes and usually covers the same basic materials four or eight times. Some of the ones that are a bit dizzying to me are the exercise machines that show up on late night infomercials. The treadmills [...]

More and more businesses, especially small to medium sized businesses are turning to VoIP technology to replace traditional telephone systems. This is because VoIP based telephone systems simply cost less to use. Given the rate that broadband Internet connections have become more available, VoIP has become a very economical alternative to traditional telphone [...]

One of the things that my new blog ‘TinFoil Chef’ Is going to deal with is the fact that I love checking out new kitchen gadgets and I’ve got a great one now. It’s a microwave bacon cooker unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Over the years there’s been a lot of gadgets developed [...]

One of the things that I love about fall, aside from the spectacular displays of leaves turning color (which is more impressive that I would have expected in Northeast Arkansas), is the fact that the weather is turning cool enough that baking and breadmaking can be done without turning the house into an oven in [...]