Sean Reiser
Nobody Expects the McAfee Acquisition.
Thu, 2010-08-19 18:32
Sign that I have a broken brain. When I head about Intel acquiring McAfee and security being the "third pillar of technology" this ran through my brain
Paul Otellini: Nobody Expects the McAfee Acquisition! The chief pillar of technology is internet access... Internet access and energy efficient computing.... energy efficient computing and internet access. The TWO pillars of technology are energy efficient computing, internet access ... and security.... The Three pillars of technology are energy efficient computing, internet access and security .... and kitten videos. The Four... no...
It's The End Of My Hard Drive As I Know It and I Feel Fine or Why I'm Running Tiger on Snow Leopard Weekend.
Sat, 2009-08-29 18:30
So, I had some disturbing news this weekend, my MacBook Pro, Zen, had his hard drive die on me and unlike most folks who have had a drive crash, I'm not panicked, once I figure out how I am going to work over the next few days until Apple can replace the drive I've been doing what I need to get an old machine up and running.
What Happened
So I was doing general decrufting to prepare for the snow leopard upgrade things started feeling wanky. Emptying caches took longer then it should've. Repairing permissions and scanning the disk were throwing errors.
IM and the RSS Cloud
Sun, 2009-08-02 03:41
At Dave Winer's meeting about bootstrapping the Rss Cloud someone (I don't remember who, sorry) asked about the possibility of using the cloud as an opensource peer to peer IM network to replace Jabber/XMPP (there was a little discussion around how difficult it is to implement XMPP securely and correctly). As I'm working on my cloud I've gotten to thinking about how to implement IM. I have no time to lead this for real, so this may be just a mental exercise.
FriendFeed Mentions and the Drupal FriendFeed Module
Thu, 2009-07-23 20:45
While I'm looking for work I've been playing with the new version friendfeed API and built a module to track mentions of an individual node. If you look at block at the bottom of this post you can see what I'm trying to do. I've managed to recapture some comments about one of my blog posts that I didn't know happened and see some other activity around my posts such as who's bookmarked it, who's shared it on google reader, etc.
Are People Really Submitting Partial SSNs On Online Job Forms
Thu, 2009-07-23 18:42
As I've been engaged in a job hunt I've been dealing more and more with applying for jobs online and I've begun to notice a disturbing trend. A number of sites from reputable firms have been asking for the last 4 digits of my SSN as well as my birthday. Now that these firms also require you to have an account on their site to apply for a job, they ask you to answer "personal questions" so they can reset your password, commonly your place is birth is used.
I'm Confused By Starring, Liking and Sharing in Google Reader
Thu, 2009-07-16 18:57
I'd like to think that I'm a smart guy (not always wise, but smart) and someone who uses social media and understands what he's doing most of the time, but I've become confused by the actions I can now take in Google Reader.
Until recently there were 2 options "Star" and "Share" (optionally with a note). It was nice a simple, if I read an article and thought it was noteworthy I'd share it, through Google Reader's RSS feed, it gets slurped up by FriendFeed and pushed to Twitter and Facebook.
Some Observations about Open Atrium: An Opensource Intranet Package Written in Drupal
Wed, 2009-07-15 17:29
As some of you know my "love affair" with Drupal started a few year ago when I was leading a development team and realized we needed a better way of communicating. Of course there was no budget for developing or purchasing a tool, and after some looking around I found Drupal, and built a small site for my team to track bugs and share information as a skunkworks project. Since then I've repeated that experiment in a number of different firms. Recently, I've begun building a similar site for myself to help manage myself, any outside contractors I have and my clients.
Better Content Management - What I Want From iTunes
Sat, 2009-07-11 20:57
OK, I've been trying to phrase this for a few minutes on twitter and have determined it's something that's short it's not something that can be expressed in 140 characters or less, so I decided to blog it. Recently as I've been working from cafes more and more, I've become frustrated with iTunes. As my laptop is my "daily driver" when is comes to my computing, and as the drive in my laptop is only 200GB I store the bulk of my media on an external USB drive which sits in my apartment.
To illustrate, I use Aperture as my photography workflow.
I Want to Put the Genie Back in the Bottle, Remove My Name!
Thu, 2009-07-09 16:55
On a few occasions I've blogged about the reactions in twitter to things in the outside world such as the election, President Obama's Speeches and technical outages on services like gmail. In the course of this I quote a few random tweets that illustrate what's going on. Of course I only use public tweets and credit the tweet with the tweeter's name.
Today I received an email from someone who's trying to remove all instances of himself from the internet.
Bandwidth Hogs: A practical use for Airpwn
Tue, 2009-06-16 03:23
So, I’ve been up at Panera Bread a lot recently sitting at home on the internet can be depressing and the trek up to PB gives me a reason to walk for a bit everyday. To be honest it’s a bit of a community there, the same people show up most days, I get to talk to folks, it’s rather fun.
Sean Reiser, 40, is a developer, technologist, and amateur photographer. Sean has spent the past 20 years as a programmer, system architect and development manager. He is a life long New York resident.
Sean currently serves as the President and Chief Geek Officer of Repair Sense, Inc.. Please go to that site with any professional inquiries.
Sean can be found using a number of social networks. These are the ones he's most active on:
- iSeanReiser (200) - Geek Blog
- The Early Reiser (32) - Mainstream Blog
- Livejournal (171) - Old Livejournal Blog
- Great Existence (149) - Photo of the Day
- Photosets (135) - Photos on Flickr
- August 2010 (1)
- July 2010 (1)
- January 2010 (2)
- September 2009 (1)
- August 2009 (30)
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- seanreiser tweeted "@amazonv I'd be worried that the hops would be over-roasted like their coffee beans." 10:51pm#
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