Sunday, August 31, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Secure Gmail From Peeping Eyes
Now there are ways for securing your web traffic completely, but I will just give you a quick tip for using Gmail without feeling like your company is cataloging all your email.
When you're in Gmail, go to Settings, and towards the bottom you will see "Browser Connection". Select the "Always use https" and then log out and log back into your email. If you see https:// at the beginning of the URL then you're secured.
This will setup Gmail so that your company or malicious hacker can't automatically record your Gmail session.
Now why do you want to secure your web traffic? The reality is this, a large percentage of companies monitor and log employee internet usage. It's really easy for a company IT department to employ this technology, so no matter how small your company is, you're not free from this practice.
In fact I have a friend who owns a small business with a handful of employees, and he digitally records all his employ keystrokes all their computers so he knows everything about the internet habits.
[via Gmail Blog]
When you're in Gmail, go to Settings, and towards the bottom you will see "Browser Connection". Select the "Always use https" and then log out and log back into your email. If you see https:// at the beginning of the URL then you're secured.
This will setup Gmail so that your company or malicious hacker can't automatically record your Gmail session.
Now why do you want to secure your web traffic? The reality is this, a large percentage of companies monitor and log employee internet usage. It's really easy for a company IT department to employ this technology, so no matter how small your company is, you're not free from this practice.
In fact I have a friend who owns a small business with a handful of employees, and he digitally records all his employ keystrokes all their computers so he knows everything about the internet habits.
[via Gmail Blog]
Monday, August 11, 2008
I Swear I Haven't Laughed This Hard In Forever
Seriously, if you have or know a first generation korean mom, you cannot deny how accurate and hilarious these entries are.
Thanks to Tim for passing this link.
http://stuffkoreanmomslike.blogspot.com
Thanks to Tim for passing this link.
http://stuffkoreanmomslike.blogspot.com
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Joe Kart Racing
We've been trying to plan an evening to invite our neighbors over for dinner since it turns out we are loosely connected thru some mutual friends, but our neighbors beat us to the punch, and then 1-up'd us. Yes, 1-up'd.
Our neighbor Shin (the blurry guy below), invited us out to go Kart Racing up in Sylmar at an indoor track. It's kind of pricey for non-members, $23 per race, but if you go more than once in a year, I'd recommend just becoming a member for $40-$50.
He invited us back a few weeks, so I've been waiting for a while and I was pretty excited to go because who doesn't like Kart racing?
Here I am, excited with my Large sized helmet. At least I didn't have to use the XXL helmet, my self-esteem would've shot down like the housing market.
It takes a while get into a race, because there is only one track, and only 10 people on the track at a time, I didn't get to race for about 2 hours from when I signed up. Oh well, that's what I get for being late, the races filled up.
Once I got racing, it was pretty awesome, and it was actually pretty darn hard. A lot harder than it looked from the sidelines. These karts go up to 50mph tho I'm pretty sure i barely hit 30 because I'm a wuss and I spun out twice.
Here's me freaking out from making a turn while a someone laps me in a blur.
In anycase, it was really fun hanging out with my neighbor and his friends getting to know them.
Grace sat out since she had to babysit our kids while I went racing away. What a trooper.
You can check out more photos at flickr or my mobileme gallery.
***** UPDATE *****
After every race they print out your racing stats, and mine are plain embarrassing. Here they are for you to laugh at.
Our neighbor Shin (the blurry guy below), invited us out to go Kart Racing up in Sylmar at an indoor track. It's kind of pricey for non-members, $23 per race, but if you go more than once in a year, I'd recommend just becoming a member for $40-$50.
He invited us back a few weeks, so I've been waiting for a while and I was pretty excited to go because who doesn't like Kart racing?
Here I am, excited with my Large sized helmet. At least I didn't have to use the XXL helmet, my self-esteem would've shot down like the housing market.
It takes a while get into a race, because there is only one track, and only 10 people on the track at a time, I didn't get to race for about 2 hours from when I signed up. Oh well, that's what I get for being late, the races filled up.
Once I got racing, it was pretty awesome, and it was actually pretty darn hard. A lot harder than it looked from the sidelines. These karts go up to 50mph tho I'm pretty sure i barely hit 30 because I'm a wuss and I spun out twice.
Here's me freaking out from making a turn while a someone laps me in a blur.
In anycase, it was really fun hanging out with my neighbor and his friends getting to know them.
Grace sat out since she had to babysit our kids while I went racing away. What a trooper.
You can check out more photos at flickr or my mobileme gallery.
***** UPDATE *****
After every race they print out your racing stats, and mine are plain embarrassing. Here they are for you to laugh at.
I love paperclips
They're so versatile. I used three and bent them into s-shaped hooks
so I can hang my headphones off the side of my desk to save valuable
desktop real-estate.
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