Mark Maruska

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2012.01.12
• • • Parents are so happy when their kids do good things. I think this must be because parents think that all the good things that their kids do are a direct result of their successful parenting efforts. So, make your parents happy. As a parent, I am happy (patting myself on the back for my daughter's good things). Haha!

2011.10.22
• • • Preface: This post is not for you; so you can stop reading it right here; really. Posting: Ahh, the luxury of knowing how the web works. You know, http, sockets, etc. I would venture to say that most people don't know how the web works. They probably don't realize that there are various ways to make requests and get responses between computers. There's a lot of magic. They trust a whole lot when they're online. Probably more than they think. Anyway, I was on a secure site (ooo!) and had just setup a new account with a new random complex password and had just logged in when I promptly forgot what my password was. I know, it was only 2 seconds ago. Oh great. Well, as I was saying, there's a luxury for those who know how the web works... I went back to the login page and had the browser repost the secure login form (you know SSL & HTTPS, that jazz) and was able to promptly capture my random complex password that I had forgotten. Now I have it in plain text for me to actually write down. Haha. So much for secure form posting, blah blah blah. Anyway, it's good to be web savvy... but wait, you're probably wondering how I did it. Well, a special thanks goes out to Fiddler. It has it merits; but not really for my mom to use. Nota bene: Yes, I could have used other network traffic tools, but that one was easy. Postscript: Ok, this isn't rocket science and most of you who read this far probably already knew this stuff already; but then again, so did I. Happenstance: I also never really told you how the web works. Sorry.

2011.10.21
• • • I was talking with a friend about how there are some people who have a hard time at work because there's an inaccurate perception of them. You know, when someone says, "Oh, that guy, I heard he... blah blah blah. So, we better not let him... blah blah blah." I'm not sure how the inaccurate perception of that coworker gets started, but here's a great analogy that I quote from my friend that could explain it... "It’s very difficult to maintain perception when you are a doctor working in the emergency room in Russia and the KGB comes in and expects you drop all your patients, not so you can help him with his injury but so you can go outside and help him change his flat tire." Haha! Yep, I think that's got to be it... but I'm not so sure what to do about it.

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