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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 […]

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!

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.

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, […]

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 […]

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

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

Wow. Just… wow.

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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