Well, shoot. I guess it’s time to retire my Nokia 6310i and get myself a new phone. It turns out my 6310i is way vulnerable to bluesnarfing, which means that an atttacker can grab pretty much all of the data stored on the handset, including the address book and IMEI. Worse yet, Nokia is claiming that this is “not a serious problem”, so they don’t plan to fix it. Oh, really?

On April 4th, 2004, I’m going to be joining with some other parishioners at [my church]1 in a href=”http://www.cambridgesavings.com/servlet/Redirect?pageName=Root1_top_community_upandcomingcommunityevents&menuLevel=2″>Walk for Affordable Housing sponsored by the href=”http://www.connact.com/hca/”>Housing Corporation of Arlington. The Housing Corporation of Arlington helps find low income families find housing options in Arlington, Massachusetts. Very often this involves buying a house in need of TLC, and using volunteers to help fix it up. I’m going to be participating in the walk, and I’m looking for people

Today’s Boondocks comic strip really tickled my funny bone:

While doing some random cleanup, I recently came across some of my old exams from my undergraduate days, including the ones from Professor Wolfe’s Introduction to Psychology (9.00) class. Professor Wolfe was a dedicated teacher (so much so that MIT had to deny him tenure the year after he won the Baker Foundation Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching aka “The Kiss of Death” in 1989), and every year he created entirely new mid-terms and final exams that were just fun to take.

It’s been a while since I’ve updated my journal, mostly because I’ve been insanely busy at work. So I thought I would jot down a few interesting things that have happened in the past week or so. I spent around $300 to get 2 custom-made suits (with two pairs of matching pants each), a sports coat, and several additional custom-made shirts and pants altered to fit the new me. This meant bringing in the waist by 3-4 inches and additional material out of the crotch of the pants, and bringing in the sides of the shirts and coats/sports jackets.

What does it mean to be a friend? In LiveJournal, it has a very specific meaning; it means that you’re interested in reading someone’s journal, and that in general, you’re willing to let that person read your “friends-only” postings — at least, unless you start using friend groups to control who can see which posting. In Orkut, however, saying someone is a friend has little or no meaning, since in orkut you don’t really do anything other than define your social circle.

I safely arrived in Tokyo yesterday afternoon, around 4:30pm local time. The purpose of the trip? To be a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Linux Rapporteur Group, which was commissioned by SC22 to study the question of whether or not ISO should start some Linux standardization work. I’m hoping the result will be the answer “no“, hence my attending this meeting. This trip will be a number of firsts for me; the first in Tokyo; the first time working with the ISO standards process; the first time to take a week-long “Atkins holiday”.

I’ve been away for the past 2.5 weeks, in Laguna Beach attending a family reunion combined with a cousin’s wedding, followed by a week staying with Stacey in the Bay Area. And as some of my gentle readers who live in the Northeast might know, it’s been a mite frosty in Boston this past week. So I came home to Medford last night, and found my house a wee bit chilly.

According to a friend of mine who is a flight instructor, people who can control their diabetes via diet alone can get their pilot’s license. Non-insulin dependent diabetics who take certain medications can still get their medical certificate, but it requires more FAA bureaucracy. Given that six months ago, I was able to control my blood sugar to normal levels for two weeks without medications, and that since then I have lost another ten pounds, there is very much definitely hope that I can claim that I can control my diabetes via diet alone.

So I’ve just gotten back from my family reunion in Lagnua Beach, (hopefully, I’ll have time to write about that, but I’m being realistic, probably not) and I’m going to be in the Bay Area for a few days, until January 9th when I fly back to Boston. So if folks are interested in seeing me, I have a number of lunches and dinner free. 🙂