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The NRC initiates a review of radioactive wristbands

The NRC initiates a review of radioactive wristbands

Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

I received an email from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission today that states they are “reviewing the information you provided to determine what NRC follow-up activities will be conducted”. They will update me with the results of their review and let me know if they intend to follow-up or let the case drop. I will […]

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The xNT fully NFC compliant RFID implant indiegogo campaign is live!

The xNT fully NFC compliant RFID implant indiegogo campaign is live!

Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

Cyborgs unite!

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Review of Montie Gear 13.56MHz field detector

Review of Montie Gear 13.56MHz field detector

Friday, May 17th, 2013

I had a chance to review the 13.56MHz RFID field detector from Montie Gear and I have to say, I like this detector. It’s very thin, somewhat flexible, and is the size of a credit card so it fits in my wallet.

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How to fix a bum package or force a re-install on CentOS

How to fix a bum package or force a re-install on CentOS

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012

I recently had a package show up in yum as being installed, but it was not or had been manually removed, so the yum removal process was broken and the ghost package was causing a yum update to fail. The solution was to use rpm to simply and safely remove the entry from the database, […]

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Poor man's DoS attack

Poor man’s DoS attack

Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

I was going through pictures on my phone and came across this one I took of a “poor man’s DoS attack” I was doing to some website for the crime of pissing me off for some likely arbitrary reason. Chrome + the good ‘ol spoon wedging down the F5 refresh key for 30 minutes trick […]

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1,000,000,000,000 frames/second photography

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

Wow. Just… wow.

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A New Wild West

A New Wild West

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

When I saw the Space Elevator Conference was in Seattle, I asked GeekWire to get me in under the guise of being a pesky reporter. Press pass in hand, I entered the rough and tumble world of Space Elevator enthusiasts where just about anything goes. Here’s the write-up I did for GeekWire: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/wild-west-imagining-future-space-elevators (pdf) When […]

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