I went to the OWASP (Open Wep Application Security Project) meeting here last night. The group was small about 9 people and varied from networkers, php, java, and me (what do I do again?). So it was cool to have a little group of varied talents. What was not cool was the presentation. I think I might be used to the highly techinical EDMUG presentations. This was an overview of network security principals and practices from a 20,000 foot view. To me it lacked anything I can take back to my work at all. The presenter seemed to know his...

Well today I am getting a GST audit so I thought I would ask the GST auditor some questions and blog about it. I find the GST tax system quite fair (maybe that is because I am requesting a refund). But basically the way it works is that my company charges GST to its clients (that are not GST exempt). I also pay GST on the items I buy. I then have to remit to the goverment the charged amount minus the amount I payed in expenses. So if I chaged $500 to my clients and got charged $700 for purchasing things...

I like a lot of Edmonton bloggers attended JP's great .NET bootcamp last week. JP made a good comment about how we learn like crazy -> plateau -> repeat (a lot of people never do the repeat part). JP has shown me the next level of learning which is really exciting. I am not going to rant and rave about the course (Jonas captured my thoughts so eloquently). I am a little behind the curve right now being stuck in a 1.1 vb environment but this course has shown me the value of a lot of technologies and techniques that I...

I am using a voip provider for my home phone that has been working fairly well until today (I wont say which... lets just say it starts with "P" and ends with "rimus"). Suddenly the status light is blinking red so I do a reset and all other things I can think of before calling support. Once I called in I found out they had done an upgrade to their routers and I had to upgrade the firmware on my voip gateway (thanks for the notice!). Anyways they have a vb script file you can download that automates this...