Our modern web browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox (as well as Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari) have the abilities to use our current location using a variety of techniques. Most of the time, the browser will prompt the user and ask for permission to use the current location on some web site. That... Continue Reading →
Bash Prompt -PS1
Some students in my SEC542 SANS class noted the funky Bash shell prompt I have for my terminal windows and wanted me to share it. So, this is a post to share it. My Bash shell prompt is: ┌─[HH:MM:SS]─[hostname: PresentWorkingDirectory] └──> $ and looks like this in the terminal when I took a pic of... Continue Reading →
Watching You Drink Beer
Announcement of a tool I wrote for OSINT beer drinking purposes. It grabs public data from the Untappd.com web site and analyzes drinking behavior.
Mind over body
This 5 minute clip from the 2006 movie "Facing the Giants" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805526/) recently made me think about my dedication and drive. It is "The Death Crawl Scene" where an unmotivated person shows himself and his team that if you cannot see the "finish line" you can push your body harder and farther than you thought you... Continue Reading →
Career Days
I have had (and continue to have) the pleasure of helping my two children learn and grow into the amazing, wonderful young adults that they are today. Every year their schools have "Career Days" where people in the community take some time away from their work and share with students what it is like to... Continue Reading →
Your very first hike
The weather is turning hot|cold|warm|sunny|cloudy...just like you like it. You know that there are these dirt|gravel|paved paths in some parks but never knew what they were for. You are intrigued, pulled by some primal urge to go outside and get some sun|pollen|wind on your face|body|brand new clothes. You my friend, need to... Go for a hike!... Continue Reading →
Fake Name Generator
When performing testing activities, whether it is web application penetration or usability testing, it is helpful to have example content to submit in web form fields. The same can be said for people trying to create sock-puppet or alias accounts on the Internet. We need to have sample/fake information so that we can set up... Continue Reading →
The Problem after a Raise
I spoke to a junior employee today. He was upset with his latest pay raise. It was smaller than he wanted and, as a result, he stopped putting in extra effort at work. No more going above and beyond, staying late, or trying hard. So I said to him, "Were you upset like this before... Continue Reading →