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I read Becky Worley's piece this afternoon Are You Being Monitored At Work? wanted to flesh out some of the ideas put forth in the piece.

Getting ready for Noghannan's Painting Cave August Painting Extravaganza. I'm not sure what we are playing for, who in total is in the little arangement but I do know that its time to put in work!

Amped by Daniel H. Wilson was an ok book but like the author's other book Robopocalypse, did not deliver on the awesome premise and world which the author created. Without revealing the spoilers below the break, I can say this was an enjoyable book with awesome cover art to read on the porch during the summer it was enjoyable, though the story is a little telegraphed.

I read the Kindle version and encountered no formatting issues.

I am a big fan of Gina Tripani from her work on TWIG and when she announced that she was teaming up with Kevin Purdy of LifeHacker fame to work on a podcast that would focus more on development and on the agile development process I knew that it would be worth adding it to my BeyondPod feed.

When I was working on configuring my .vimrc file today I decided that I wanted to change the way that I switch from Insert to Command mode. Reaching up to the ESC key takes my hands off the home row and this can slow down text input.

Though Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror piece Why Can't Programmers Programis an older piece from 2007 it still proposes some interesting ideas about taking the art of programming and converting it into something which can be used for the hiring of employees. He quotes a number of other individuals who list similar complaints about not being able to locate programmers who can "code their way out of a paper bag" as Dan Kengel quipped.

The first lesson of Week 1 of Professor Dan Boneh's Crypto-Course.org was focused on the basics of Information Theory and on one time pads. In the lessons from last week we discussed vulnerabilities in some historical Cryptographic Systems and were introduced to some mathematical concepts and notation which will help as the professor displayed the security and effectiveness of these concepts.

I have begun week 0 of Professor Dan Boneh of Stanford’s online Introduction to Cryptography course. Not only am I excited for the content and materials of this course I am very interested in how this purely online learning experience will be. I have never taken a course where I did not know at least some of the people offline. This course is being offered for free and provides each student who completes it with a certificate of completion and I intend to chronicle my progress.