Movies about hackers and hacking are cool, but in the real world it can be bad news. Trust me, I know that not everyone that can and does hack is a baddie. Some of them do it just to show they can and then leave everything as is. But, there are always the guys on the other side of the line that like to cause chaos - or at least mischief. If I get malware or a virus on my PC, it’s a nuisance more than anything else. I’m not happy about it, but it’s not life or death. However, the one piece of technology that I rely on that IS life or death is my insulin pump. At the recent Black Hat conference it was revealed that you can hack an insulin pump. I can't exactly picture this happening to me or to anyone else for that matter, but it still makes me thinkg WTF?!
http://www.slashgear.com/hacker-shows-how-to-hack-insulin-pumps-at-black-hat-conference-05169762/
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Finally Fall
I am so happy that it is finally Fall! Although, it hasn't felt like it much the last few days. It was 84 the other day, which isn't too bad, but the humidity was back! Ugh! But you have to expect that in the South. Summer isn't over until it's ready to be over! Aside from those days (and all this rain which probably has a lot to do with the humidity!) I love this weather! Not just the cooler temps, but as mentioned, the dreaded humidity drops. Nothing like breathing soup when you walk out into a 90 or even 100+ degrees day! It's nice to be able to enjoy a warm day without that.
The world just *feels* different for me this time of year too. When I was a kid (even though we started school in August and not the actual fall) I felt it. So as I got older I just attirbuted the feelings to that (even though I wasn't in school anymore). But now I realize that it's something different. There are the things you can see and feel obviously: the sun's angle changes. the temp. and humidity drop. I don't know what it is. I can't explain it and I can't show it to you, but I only feel it when Autumn comes and no other season. Maybe because I was born in the Fall? (although not until November). I don't know what it is, but I welcome it every year. Happy Fall, everyone!
The world just *feels* different for me this time of year too. When I was a kid (even though we started school in August and not the actual fall) I felt it. So as I got older I just attirbuted the feelings to that (even though I wasn't in school anymore). But now I realize that it's something different. There are the things you can see and feel obviously: the sun's angle changes. the temp. and humidity drop. I don't know what it is. I can't explain it and I can't show it to you, but I only feel it when Autumn comes and no other season. Maybe because I was born in the Fall? (although not until November). I don't know what it is, but I welcome it every year. Happy Fall, everyone!
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Remembering September 11th
I was going to make commerative post on September 11th, but as we learned on that horrible day, sometimes life changes your plans. Sometimes things change quickly. But the most important bit: Life goes on around us no matter what happenes or what we thought we were going to do.
So I am a bit late, but I truly believe this is a day worth thinking about. (I hate to use the word "remember" because of all the "slogans" about remembering 9/11. How could we ever, ever forget? But remembering is what we must do.) We should remember the lives that were lost. We should remember those that lost someone they loved. We should remember everyone that went to help. We should remember how we felt that day. We should think about the horrible things human beings can and will do to each other. We should remember how it affected us as a country, but more importantly how we came together and stood tall where the towers fell. We should remember those from other countries that reached out both physically and emotionally to support us.
The day started off unusually for me anyway. I was obviously much younger then. It was rare for me to be up early in those days, and if I was up early, it was very unlikely that I would be watching the news. Well, actually I was watching The Today Show.
My dad was outside working on his car. Mom hadn't returned yet from taking my sister to school. I was standing in the living room in front of the tv. Matt Lauer was talking about something - I have no idea what now - when there was a typical interruption when "Breaking News" happens. Matt announced that a plane had hit one of the towers.
I remember thinking that was crazy and wondering if something happened to the pilot or in "the tower" or...I had no idea. I went outside to tell my dad about it. Went back inside to watch some more when they announced the 2nd plane hitting. By that time they had video to accomany the story and there was talk of terrorism.
Mom and I had already had plans that day to go shopping. It wasn't "fun" shopping or I believe we would have cancelled it. Once again, life moves on even when the worst things happen. But there were things I needed to get, so we decided we'd go ahead and go. Stores were close to empty that day and the people that were there looked shell-shocked. A lot of almost vacant looks. No one really acknowledged each other or if they did speak, it was about the horrors we'd all seen or heard about that day. People were lost in their own thoughts. There was none of the usual energy you percieve in a store or place containing people. It was so still. Life slowed, but kept moving on.
So I am a bit late, but I truly believe this is a day worth thinking about. (I hate to use the word "remember" because of all the "slogans" about remembering 9/11. How could we ever, ever forget? But remembering is what we must do.) We should remember the lives that were lost. We should remember those that lost someone they loved. We should remember everyone that went to help. We should remember how we felt that day. We should think about the horrible things human beings can and will do to each other. We should remember how it affected us as a country, but more importantly how we came together and stood tall where the towers fell. We should remember those from other countries that reached out both physically and emotionally to support us.
The day started off unusually for me anyway. I was obviously much younger then. It was rare for me to be up early in those days, and if I was up early, it was very unlikely that I would be watching the news. Well, actually I was watching The Today Show.
My dad was outside working on his car. Mom hadn't returned yet from taking my sister to school. I was standing in the living room in front of the tv. Matt Lauer was talking about something - I have no idea what now - when there was a typical interruption when "Breaking News" happens. Matt announced that a plane had hit one of the towers.
I remember thinking that was crazy and wondering if something happened to the pilot or in "the tower" or...I had no idea. I went outside to tell my dad about it. Went back inside to watch some more when they announced the 2nd plane hitting. By that time they had video to accomany the story and there was talk of terrorism.
Mom and I had already had plans that day to go shopping. It wasn't "fun" shopping or I believe we would have cancelled it. Once again, life moves on even when the worst things happen. But there were things I needed to get, so we decided we'd go ahead and go. Stores were close to empty that day and the people that were there looked shell-shocked. A lot of almost vacant looks. No one really acknowledged each other or if they did speak, it was about the horrors we'd all seen or heard about that day. People were lost in their own thoughts. There was none of the usual energy you percieve in a store or place containing people. It was so still. Life slowed, but kept moving on.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Back To School
Today was the first day of school...for my sister anyway! It even feels like back to school weather! A front came through and brought rain -- and cooler weather with it. This being the South, Back-To-School generally still feels like Sticky-Hot-Summer!
There's always something in the air that is not weather related about the beginning of the school year. I've felt it all my life, even now that school is long since past. For my vanity's sake, we'll just pretend it wasn't that long ago haha
When I was in school, and even as late as last year for my sister, school started around the 3rd week in August. However, this year they got a late start because the high schoolers were starting in a brand new school. That's pretty exciting for them. The cool part, is our Uncle is the supervising contractor (or something!) of all the new high schools that were built in Pickens County. I think my Cousin had something to do with the concrete contract as well.
So, back to my sister. She's a Junior this year. Yikes. One more year til Graduation! That makes me feel old(ish). But once again, we'll just overlook that for the sake of my vanity. It's really taking a hit today!
There's always something in the air that is not weather related about the beginning of the school year. I've felt it all my life, even now that school is long since past. For my vanity's sake, we'll just pretend it wasn't that long ago haha
When I was in school, and even as late as last year for my sister, school started around the 3rd week in August. However, this year they got a late start because the high schoolers were starting in a brand new school. That's pretty exciting for them. The cool part, is our Uncle is the supervising contractor (or something!) of all the new high schools that were built in Pickens County. I think my Cousin had something to do with the concrete contract as well.
So, back to my sister. She's a Junior this year. Yikes. One more year til Graduation! That makes me feel old(ish). But once again, we'll just overlook that for the sake of my vanity. It's really taking a hit today!
Monday, September 5, 2011
M.I.A. - Again!
I've been away again. Mostly working on stuff. There's not much to tell about that that is interesting though, & not much else going on either.
I did find out that most of the rest of the family didn't get to go up North for my cousin's wedding either. That makes me feel a little better about not being able to attend. I felt like our little part of the family would be the only ones not there and that turned out not to be true. But I still feel bad about it because she's one of my cousins that I am most fond of. Ah well...I did send a gift and she knows how much I love her (i hope!)
Anything else going on - at least that I can think of - is medical. And I'm still trying to shy away from this becoming my medical memoirs lol But it still may happen. Some of it's very interesting! Well, some of the past stuff...If you are into that sort of thing. Dr. House would get into some of it I think. Maybe I should get in touch with some medical shows. Sell them my stories. Hmmm. I'm JK of course! But if I thought they'd buy any of it, I might lol
Since I'm on the subject, medical stuff is going well. But I do have several appointments I need to make. Hopefully they will give out good news too, but I have this little feeling (which may be part of why I keep procrastinating (that and I just often forget until like now: 8:45 pm. A time I can't possibly make one!)) that at least one of them won't be good. But, I guess I can't find that out until I make them and go!
One of the things I've been doing that I mentioned up there (mentioned as in, saying there wasn't much to talk about...cause there isn't lol) is going pretty well. It's so boring though. I've been going through the various folders on my computer - and I have a LOT of stuff on here - and organizing what's not organized, sharing what I'm going to delete in case anyone else wants it (graphics and things) and then deleting anything I no longer want. It takes a lot longer than you think! Esp. since I can only do a little at a time. If I don't, I get brain dead lol I was working on the music that way too, but I haven't picked that up in a week or so.
I've listened to music, of course, but I just haven't worked on that. I'll get back to it though. I have a lot of songs that I haven’t listened to yet (all acquired legally, RIAA, so just keep your panties unbunched!) The problem is, I don’t want to hog up HD space with crap, so I have to listen to it to decide if I want to even keep it. Plus, I’m looking for stuff to put on my iPod.
The problem is, for every gem I find, I listen to at least 10-20 songs that… Well, let me restate that. Some of them aren’t bad, but I’m not looking to keep things that simply don’t make me think Auto-Dislike. So if it makes me cringe or if it’s just “ok” it’s still going to go (for the most part. Sometimes I like to keep around melodic pieces of fluff for background sounds). It'll be so nice having my hard drive all sorted and organized and RIGHT lol It won't last. There will always be things to put away, but at least it won't be as bad as I let it get.
Gotta get caught up on my shows too. Despite the fact that I only keep up with a couple, I'm not current right now! Several of them are USA shows though, so that won't be a big deal since they run their shows over and over again lol Gotta get my TB fix too. I'm sad that the season is almost over again. I hope that it won't take as long as last time to start a new season though!
I did find out that most of the rest of the family didn't get to go up North for my cousin's wedding either. That makes me feel a little better about not being able to attend. I felt like our little part of the family would be the only ones not there and that turned out not to be true. But I still feel bad about it because she's one of my cousins that I am most fond of. Ah well...I did send a gift and she knows how much I love her (i hope!)
Anything else going on - at least that I can think of - is medical. And I'm still trying to shy away from this becoming my medical memoirs lol But it still may happen. Some of it's very interesting! Well, some of the past stuff...If you are into that sort of thing. Dr. House would get into some of it I think. Maybe I should get in touch with some medical shows. Sell them my stories. Hmmm. I'm JK of course! But if I thought they'd buy any of it, I might lol
Since I'm on the subject, medical stuff is going well. But I do have several appointments I need to make. Hopefully they will give out good news too, but I have this little feeling (which may be part of why I keep procrastinating (that and I just often forget until like now: 8:45 pm. A time I can't possibly make one!)) that at least one of them won't be good. But, I guess I can't find that out until I make them and go!
One of the things I've been doing that I mentioned up there (mentioned as in, saying there wasn't much to talk about...cause there isn't lol) is going pretty well. It's so boring though. I've been going through the various folders on my computer - and I have a LOT of stuff on here - and organizing what's not organized, sharing what I'm going to delete in case anyone else wants it (graphics and things) and then deleting anything I no longer want. It takes a lot longer than you think! Esp. since I can only do a little at a time. If I don't, I get brain dead lol I was working on the music that way too, but I haven't picked that up in a week or so.
I've listened to music, of course, but I just haven't worked on that. I'll get back to it though. I have a lot of songs that I haven’t listened to yet (all acquired legally, RIAA, so just keep your panties unbunched!) The problem is, I don’t want to hog up HD space with crap, so I have to listen to it to decide if I want to even keep it. Plus, I’m looking for stuff to put on my iPod.
The problem is, for every gem I find, I listen to at least 10-20 songs that… Well, let me restate that. Some of them aren’t bad, but I’m not looking to keep things that simply don’t make me think Auto-Dislike. So if it makes me cringe or if it’s just “ok” it’s still going to go (for the most part. Sometimes I like to keep around melodic pieces of fluff for background sounds). It'll be so nice having my hard drive all sorted and organized and RIGHT lol It won't last. There will always be things to put away, but at least it won't be as bad as I let it get.
Gotta get caught up on my shows too. Despite the fact that I only keep up with a couple, I'm not current right now! Several of them are USA shows though, so that won't be a big deal since they run their shows over and over again lol Gotta get my TB fix too. I'm sad that the season is almost over again. I hope that it won't take as long as last time to start a new season though!
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