SamWhited|blog

Poems, rants, and peculiar things.

New SSL Certificates

Details about this blog's new StartSSL certificates.

More than a template

On upgrading to Octopress and the Sierra Whisky theme.

New public key

New public key: 0xEC2C9934 supersedes 0x0DBB515F.

Unprofessional Emails from Georgia Tech

Spam and public accusations of 'hate' from the Georgia Tech College of Computing.

Thoughts on CISPA

Why H.R. 3523 is absurd, but not as bad as many people claim.

Another year, another new years post

Tacos for the new year.

Security on the internet

Basic security concerns for servers and email including encryption and password security.

World IPv6 Day: Intent to participate

As you might have read, the Internet Society Newsletter today announced World IPv6 Day. The intent is to create AAAA Records for the homepages of major websites which previously only had IPv6 connectivity on subdomains on 08 June 2011 and test them for 24 hours. Though the event is designed for websites owned by large companies with millions of viewers, IPv6 is just as important for people running low traffic personal websites.

The "New Year Post"

Though I’ve only had 4 posts since last year’s new year post (and most of them short) I’ve been keeping busy, and productive: everything I wish for you in the new year! From me, and Goliath the Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio), have a wonderful 2011, and happy 23-day (01/01/11)2!

Redesign

As you may have noticed, this blog has changed (again)! Just like last time, I recently updated my personal website and wanted the blog to reflect that. I also wanted to design the new template to be compatible with Blogger’s template designer. When designing the new site my primary goal was minimalism. My old site had too many colors, lines, and fonts, so I took most of them out. Since the main content of the site (and this blog) is text, the choice of typeface was very important.