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Tuesday, August 12, 2003
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Speaking of Keystone, it's quite high: 9500 feet. During last year's CableLabs Summer Conference, I died. The altitude really hit me hard - headaches, very winded, wheezing, etc. However, this year, for some reason, I am having virtually no problems. Just a little winded if I walk too fast - no headaches, no oxygen tent fantasties, etc. I feel pretty good. And now that I've been up here for two days, I can even feel myself begin to acclimate.
I have no idea what accounts for this miraculous difference. Other than, perhaps after three years of yoga lessons focused on breathing techniques, I may finally be getting it. The yoga stuff really helps at night when I'm trying to sleep.
7:11:43 PM 
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A Soggy Dog
While I'm on the road, the Ski Boy is now the primary Clemmie care giver. Poor Clem had a bit of a rude shock last night. Here's Peter's very funny description:
I howled last night at poor Clem's expense. It was raining very hard after dinner last night, but I figured the pooch absolutely needed a potty run before bed time, so I shoo'ed her out the back door. It seemed pretty good when she nosed out, cause the [famous] blue tarp covers the first couple of feet of the deck. HOWEVER, just as she got to the edge of the blue tarp coverage, a gust of wind billowed the tarp and a huge puddle of collected water hit her dead on. It was really funny--sort of like when the snowy tree nailed you in Girdwood. Fortunately, I dried her off and gave her a greenie, so life was good, despite the insult to her dignity.
The blue tarp is developing mythical status.....
7:03:57 PM
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"Blasted"
Well, Hewey - my HP laptop - was one of the tens of thousands of machines that got nailed by the MSBlast Worm. He was on the leading edge of the tidal wave - we got hit yesterday (Monday) at 11:30 AM.
I'm attending the CableLabs Summer Conference in Keystone, Colorado. CableLabs has a wi-fi network available and there are also numerous vendors on the floor with operational wi-fi access points. At some point yesterday morning, I inadvertantly attached to an infected peer-to-peer (ad hoc) wi-fi network and got nailed. At the time, I thought the timed shutdowns were the result of a corrupted registry which in turn was the result of a very unstable wi-fi network. Yesterday morning, the news was not yet out on the worm.
So, it wasn't until this morning in a security presentation when the worm was discussed and the RPC connection was described that it dawned on me that my corrupted registry was actually the MSBlast worm. Fortunately, GCI's corporate help desk walked me through the worm purge process.
So, you ask, why didn't a responsible tech person like yourself load Microsoft's patch when it was announced in July? Well, you see, I have a very low opinion of Microsoft's software updates - they're both buggy and often lock out previously functioning 3rd party non-Microsoft software. Because of the 3rd party issues, I've never even loaded XP Service Pack 1. And to install the RPC (MSBlast) security patch, Service Pack 1 must be installed. sigh...However, it is now clear that I will have to install SP1 and the patch and deal with the 3rd party software fallout. As my boss stated, "It is a conspiracy."
6:58:07 PM
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