Archive for August 2009

Pull out that old memory and think of me and smile

The world tried to throw a wrench in my gears today and a storm of shit was headed right for me. I didn’t dodge it, hell, I didn’t even move out of the way. It rolled right over me, knocked me around, pushed me down, pounded me relentlessly, left me battered and bruised. [...]

10 things to try to do everyday

help me fill this in…
1. Wake up early (even on weekends!)
Currently I wake up around 5am during the week, but I love to sleep forever and stay up late on the weekends.  I’d like to break this habit so I can get more packed in on the weekend.
2. Sweat
I do not work out everyday and [...]

How to authenticate automatically?

Recently I had to overcome a silly problem at work for our Kiosk project.  I needed a way for our kiosks to authenticate automatically.  Our app is built on top of Spring MVC for the server side, it’s a JSP/Javascript front end with a Java Applet to communicate with usb/serial devices (Room Key Encoder, Mag [...]