Archive for February, 2010

Can you believe that hot blond on Facebook wasn’t just desperate to meet me?!

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

So a hot blond decided to randomly add me on Facebook. I know what you’re thinking: “Matt with your dashing good looks, charm, and terrific fashion sense, I’m sure you have models contacting you all the time”. I won’t argue with your logic, but in my boredom I decided to investigate a little. Here’s what I found:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you think this isn’t normal there’s a job req up on fling:

Trying to get my FIOS Bill

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

For weeks I’ve been trying to get my Verizon FIOS bill. Verizon happily debits my credit card every month but I need the receipts. I’ve logged into my account online and all I get is the below message saying the system isn’t working:

I emailed them and got no help:

Note: I LOVE automated completely useless responses.

Verizon decided to step up their incompetence when I tried to access my billing info yet again tonight:

So at this point, I guess I get to spend hours on hold waiting for them. Oh how I love incompetent multinational companies.

New Hex-Rays

Monday, February 1st, 2010

A new version of Hex-Rays is out today. Combined with my eval copy of Binnavi today is just a good day!

16 byte CRC is Common

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Saw this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/26/aurora_attack_origins/

The link argues that the unusual CRC in Aurora that uses 16 unsigned ints isn’t actually that uncommon… in fact it’s in a lot of EE type text books.