PolarLava::Blog

That's would be the name of the lovely framed and matted black and white photo that my coworker(/friend?) Allan just delivered to me a short while ago.  I believe he's just trying to grease the code review wheels for his work, but hey I'm alright with that!  ;)

Allan is an avid (rabid?) photographer and you can see more of his work on his photoblog.  All I could say was "Wow, thank you Allan."

—3/1/2007—
And here's a bad phone camera picture of it hanging on my office wall:

So I trekked off to Michigan last Friday to go sit on a frozen lake and freeze my ass off.  Which is probably the best assessment of my trip being we all got shutout again this year.  I've got some pictures, but not as many as last year.  Less putzing around with the camera this time as it was cold, windy and somewhat snowy.  In any case I'll post them when I get a chance.

I can so relate to the bulk of what this guy is saying about being an RSS junkie.  I am so addicted to Netvibes.  I don't think my addiction is as bad as his, but I certainly would like to get a t-shirt with the RSS logo and "RSS Addict" on it.

And if you're reading this, you probably need a shirt too!  ;)

For quite a while now I've been going to look into so way of encrypting the data I store on my USB Flash Drive.  At one point I had looked at using GPG, but never really got very far with making easy and work able.  Thus I did the appropriate thing and gave up.

Earlier this week I came across a "data swiped from a flash drive horror story" which got me thinking about it again.  So after a few minutes of searching I came up with TrueCrypt.

After a couple of missteps I successfully configured "Traveller Mode" on my 256MB flash drive.  At this point I have a 230MB encrypted drive with the remainder unencrypted.  This allows space to store the application and also functions as some portable scratch space if I need it.  Very easy, very convenient.  Now all I need to do is buy a 1GB drive and life will be good.  Then I will probably convert the 256MB back to an unencrypted scratch drive.

Apparently I can't escape my Midwest upbringing!