Paco Hope

We all know that kids are an imperfect and often unpleasantly distorted echo of ourselves.

I eat a lot of frozen entrées.

My friends got me playing WordTwist on Facebook, and I started playing it in “ladder” mode.

Please stop telling me to “utilize the overhead storage” of the aircraft, or to “utilize” my user name and password.

Riding home in a taxi tonight reminds me how much I hate them.

I am at STAR West this week and I met someone in person who I had only met online.

I’m reading some pretty funny sites lately: EngrishFunny — Stuff that gets lost in translation.

A while ago I wrote about converting dicam images to jpeg.

I’m not sure what the problem was, but every time I tried to update my Office 2008 installation, with the 12.1.1 updater, it would say there was no version of Office to update, even though there was.

I see the 2008 Presidential election as a contest between youth and age.

I gave a video interview on Risk Based Security Testing.

One thing I hear a lot are the security announcements in airports.

I plan to rant later about what a ridiculous flaming piece of garbage Microsoft’s Office 2008 for Mac is.

I find that both Parallels and the CiscoVPN client get confused with all the changing I do on my network (using wired, wireless, Verizon card, etc).

I’ve got a bunch of talks at Better Software 2008.

I’ll be speaking at STAR East in Orlando on May 6, 2008.

Avis just sent me an advertisement with some coupons in it.

I have the unfortunate pleasure of calling Washington Dulles International Airport my home airport.

So I was recently searching for information on the Imperial Palace Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and I happened across David Robinson’s blog about the Imperial Palace in Biloxi, Mississippi.

The guys over at nfl.com wrote a doozie: The Giants had the perfectly game plan for defeating the Patriots as they sprung one of the greast upsets in NFL history, if not the greatest.

My script for importing a bunch of pages into Joomla has matured some.

I gave my wife an iHome iH36 under-cabinet iPod Stereo for Christmas.

I’ve upgraded 3 Macs in the last few days: a MacBook Pro, a MacBook, and a Dual G4 Power Mac.

I’ve been reading a lot of little recipes here and there.

I went to a Thai restaurant in Massachusetts recently that offered “Vegetable Vegetables” on its menu.

It’s fascinating how vocal folks are about my review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

I subscribe to Netflix and I use a mac and an iPhone.

I recently acquired a couple Hawking Technologies HNC230G web cameras.

Wunderground.com now has a webcams feature.

I’ll be speaking at Software Test & Performance in Boston in October 2007.

I finished the final Harry Potter book a couple weeks ago.

Joen just saved me a ton of time by showing me how to resume a large file transfer using rsync instead of scp.

I’ve had about a month using the iPhone, and I’ve got my wish list of features that it doesn’t have, but should.

I’ll be speaking at STAR WEST 2007 doing my typical 1-day tutorial: Risk Based Security Testing.

I just finished reading The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss.

I met some folks who ran a “Passive Multiplayer Online Game.”

I have a site I’m migrating from straight HTML to Joomla, and I have a bunch of HTML files I want to load into it.

Apple has an availability web page that works between the hours if 9:00pm and 9:00am.

See my other post about my D-Link DIR-655 wireless router.

I just bought a D-Link DIR-655 Xtreme N Gigabit Router for the house.

Ok, in 24 hours of use, my iPhone review uncovers a few more limitations.

I got an iPhone today.

I’m reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, et. al. and it’s got me thinking about what I eat.

Thanks to my buddy Ben Walther for this one.

I was working on a report for a customer this morning and I wrote a macro that saved me a lot of tedious effort.

This amazing report about the state of software security would be welcome material in any modern discussion.

Paul, over at The Daily Ping, just blogged about flying business class.

I stayed at the Towne Place hotel in Irving, Texas in May.

My article “Bad news about giving birth at Reston Hospital” has gotten a couple comments which, when combined with other emails from friends who ought to know better, made me want to write a bit more on this subject.

I recently had the misfortune of staying at the Westin Chicago O’Hare.