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• Ken Osborn – a great bay area photographer 17 Feb 2015
  Recently I was looking for a print of old train station in Oakland, CA at 16th street. I stumbled upon this great picture on flickr: I contacted the photographer, Ken […]
  
  
• $40 USB microscope is awesome 07 Feb 2015
  On an impulse, inspired by reading a blog post, I bought a 50x illuminated $40 USB microscope.  It is awesome and works driverlessly on Ubuntu .  That is all.
  
  
• All HTTPS all the time, With HSTS to boot 26 Jan 2015
  I’ve been brushing up on my web security best practices recently.  OWASP is a great resource for this!  One of their recommended best practices is to use HTTP Strict Transport […]
  
  
• On The Register’s security posts 23 Jan 2015
  Intro: 2 posts, 1 bored security tinkerer I was stuck on a cross-country plane trip recently, and I started reading up on some security posts.  I found two interesting ones, […]
  
  
• Tip: Better Amazon URLs 22 Jan 2015
  Have you ever had a friend send you an Amazon link that was all kinds of long and ugly? Maybe it looked like this: http://www.amazon.com/Princess-Tiana-Balloon-Bouquet-Balloons/dp/B00BIIAUY4/ref=sr_1_1/187-3169712-6163024?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1421967348&sr=1-1 Thought you can clearly see […]
  
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