Archive for January, 2007

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

I Knew The Arts of Deception, Now I Know The Art of Intrusion

That title sure caught your attention, right? It’s not as bad as it sounds. I’m not a Black Hat hacker, I just enjoy reading security related books.
Back in 2003 the famous/notorious hacker Kevin D. Mitnick released his first book called The Art of Deception which discussed different elements of security that relate to social engineering. […]

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

WireLoad, LLC Can Now Be Reached Per Snail-mail

Today we finally received our PO Box. I know many of you desperately been searching our site for an address to where you can send us fan-letters, high-tech gifts and regular checks. Look no further, here it is:
WireLoad, LLC
Re: PlayingWithWire
PO Box 390026
Mountain View,
CA 94039-0026
Now, don’t send too many gifts to us, because we have limited […]

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Colorful iPod Shuffle

A little announcement just dropped into my mailbox:
Apple’s cute iPod shuffle now comes in multiple colors. Five different colors in fact: standard grey, pink, green, blue and orange.
You have to hand it to them: Apple knows how to do business. There is probably little doubt that they could have made these colorful little things […]

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

What’s Your Utilization, Kenneth?

Once in a while it happens. You know what I’m talking about, that ‘wow’-experience when you try out some new software.
This happened to us a couple of weeks ago. We were looking for a way to keep track of the server utilization. We needed to find out the usage during peak hours, to determine if […]

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Playing With Wire Goes WordPress. But Why?

You may have seen our farewell letter to blogger. And yes, it is true. We have switched from a Blogger system to a WordPress system.
The transition was made during the late hours of Saturday night. We hope we have caused as few disturbances as possible - we have even relinked every old article to […]