http://1003concepts.com/jp Author and IT Consultant since 1986 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:08:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Legendary writer and author Jerry Pournelle sent me an email! OK, so I'm a subscriber on his website and he sent it out to everybody, but still, I thought it was cool. The message was a warning about the fact that malicious hackers had compromised the online job ... http://1003concepts.com/jp/on-writing/60 During our trip to Arizona this past spring (see pictures), the visit to Tombstone inspired in me a renewed interest in the famous Gunfight at the OK Corral and the surrounding events. After some research, I wrote a quick little article entitled Surprising Facts about the Gunfight at ... http://1003concepts.com/jp/publications/59 I recently happened on the scene in Davison recently as police and paramedics responded to a 911 call that turned out to be a suspected heroin overdose. As a staff writer for the Davison Messenger, I tried to get a few statements from witnesses and took a few pictures. The ... http://1003concepts.com/jp/local-news/58 My home server, which acts as a development web server as well as a file and print server for the numerous PCs around my household, was running on SUSE Linux 10.0. This version of SUSE was the only one of its kind, before Novel re-branded the free version of ... http://1003concepts.com/jp/tech/47 Several months ago I wrote an article for a Helium Marketplace publisher.  My submission was not selected, but I find that it is one of my more popular articles on Helium (definitely in the top 3), so I thought I'd share it here.  Please read How to find out what's ... http://1003concepts.com/jp/publications/55 Imagine planting a pine tree, a small seedling, using a spade shovel. Not too difficult, right? Now imagine doing that 1000 times. Repeat every spring for 14 years. That's exactly what Bob Zirnhelt did on 11 acres where he and his wife live in Davison, Michigan. Beginning ... http://1003concepts.com/jp/publications/53 The other night I spent about 2 1/2 hours at the house of a friend, trying to free his PC of some particularly nasty malware, SpyGuarder and Vista AntiVirus 2008. Both are classified as rogue anti-spyware programs. This type of malware attempts to trick you into buying their ... http://1003concepts.com/jp/tech/51 In Goodrich, Michigan, the water level in the Millpond has been a source of contention for over 30 years between residents, the Village Council, the DNR, and the DEQ (Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality). Now it seems that the dam is leaking, possibly requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars ... http://1003concepts.com/jp/local-news/52 I recently started writing articles for a publisher who puts out several newspapers local to our surrounding communities. The Davison Messenger, The Tri-County News, The Burton Banner, etc. Some of them were existing publications which he purchased, some are new startups. All are collectively published under the ... http://1003concepts.com/jp/uncategorized/50 A while back I wrote a story entitled 'The Great Rodeo Trainers', which was sold to a Helium Marketplace publisher with exclusive (I thought) rights. Now I see the story has reappeared on Helium's website, so I'm thinking it was only sold with first publication rights rather than exclusive. ... http://1003concepts.com/jp/publications/49