Episode 1 Summary: Russell Shoemaker wakes up in a New York hotel room the morning after a catastrophic phenomenon wipes out technology and all signs of life. And then the rains begin...

Run down 41 flights of stairs with a laptop and you gain a new appreciation for elevators.

It made no sense. A big, 4 star hotel and not a soul in sight.

If you haven't seen Afterworld you are missing out. Very cool; watching the episodes I'm reminded of Day of The Triffids

YouTube - Afterworld Episode 1 - The Big Day

Erik: I've collected a lot fo worthless currency. Like from all the European countries that switched to the Euro.
Bryan: I've got some Confederate money.
Billy: Can't you still use that Stone Mountain?
Bryan: Probably, Did you know the Klan built Stone Mountain?
Mark: Oh really? What was your first clue?? Maybe the 200 ft carving of Confederate War Heros?

Today I finally got the memo about the joy that is Generic Handlers in ASP.NET. These things are a great way to emulate PHP-style webservices and Ajax callbacks.

"Doctors are now medicating unhappiness," said Dworkin. "Too many people take drugs when they really need to be making changes in their lives."

High blood pressure drugs were the next most-common with 113 million prescriptions.

Stress "illnesses" are the cause of the 2 most prescribed drug types in this country.

CDC: Antidepressants most prescribed drugs in U.S. - CNN.com

Literals are a pain to tokenize, especially when the literal can start with a valid math operator. I'm looking at you JavaScript Regex Literal and signed integer literals! You broke my code.

var x = /123/;
var y =5 /2;
z(5,+54.1, -13);

This is where you can blur the line between what the tokenizer should do and what the parser does. Going the wrong way makes things bad. Like, crashing bad.

Finding 0day in something major is the awesome. Waiting for the vendor is the suck.

Forget fireworks. Forget singing the national anthem. I spent the 4th of July watching Chuck Norris films.

This is even better than the environmental racism protest outside of work the other day.

This in fact is even better than the environmental racism protest outside of SPI the other day.

DESTROY THE COMPUTER!!!

Bryan: Heather must be ready to have her baby by now.
Me: Wait, Heather is pregnant?
Bryan: Yeah.
Me: She didn't look pregnant when we last saw her.
Bryan: Well, she was freshly pregnant.

Liability for any loss resulting from unauthorized Internet banking transactions rests with the customer if they have "used a computer or device that does not have appropriate protective software and operating system installed and up-to-date, [or] failed to take reasonable steps to ensure that the protective systems, such as virus scanning, firewall, antispyware, operating system and antispam software on [the] computer, are up-to-date."

Grandpa, why's Grandma getting arrested?
Because she didn't patch Windows Timmy.

I don't have a good feeling about this. Lets say Grandma leaves her garage unlocked and Eve takes some tools out of it and uses them to break into a bank. Is Grandma "Liability for any loss" because she "does not have appropriate [locks] installed and up-to-date?"

Is Grandma criminally negligent for not keeping her computer up-to-date? Civilly?

I wonder how this applies to Phishing. If Grandma falls for a phishing scheme and didn't spend money on an anti-phishing filter, is she liable?

NZ Banks pass the security buck to end users