Archive for October, 2006

Mansfield Haunted Prison Experience

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 | 11:03

The previous weekend, we went to Mansfield Prison as part of Grace’s local college alumnae seasonal get-together. While we missed the alum group because of a late start, we did go through the annual the Haunted Prison Experience run at the old prison. It’s the first time we went through one of those [...]

Google Spreadsheet of Buying vs. Renting

Friday, October 13th, 2006 | 07:44

The Big Picture has a pointer to this Google Spreadsheet of a buying versus renting cost comparison: .
It’s neat, but you have to save a copy to your own Google account before you can modify the values. There are a couple issues, having to do with dependent variables that aren’t well linked to other [...]

WEP Cracking using Auditor’s Security Collection 2006-06

Thursday, October 12th, 2006 | 08:37

An associate of mine was challenged to crack WEP by one of his collegues recently. Somehow, this collegue was unaware that WEP is flawed and subject to very fast cryptanalysis, and believed that 128-bit WEP keys were unbreakable.
We picked up two Netgear WG511T PCMCIA cards, got the Auditor’s Security Collection as of around June [...]

Dough Techniques

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 | 07:49

Here’s an interesting piece by someone reverse engineering Patsy’s pizza. I don’t intend to violate warranty/lease/fire codes by disabling the safety features of my oven in order to achieve 800F temperatures, but the dough techniques he discusses are informative.
Pizza is bread, and I’ve started using his “The Wet-Kneading Technique with Autolyze” on, say, multigrain [...]