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A little spot for me to put my brain fuzz before it slips unheard into the nether.

This is simply a web log, a collection of thoughts I found important enough to share.
Mostly about technology, but occasionally about life.

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April 26, 2004

They already have the next big thing. SMS this, you too can have your own light special effects over Dublin!

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Yea to me,

October 26, 2005

It's my aniversary. 3 Years of wedded bliss!

“The Last Password” — A Story of Digital Rebellion

August 07, 2025

Leo had survived schema madness. He’d outwitted deployment dragons. But now, he faced his final boss: passwords. Every system had one. Every environment had a different one. Some expired every 30 days. Others required uppercase, lowercase, symbols, emojis, and the blood of a unicorn. Leo’s password manager looked like a cryptic novel written by a paranoid wizard. One morning, Leo tried to deploy a hotfix. The CI pipeline failed. The database login expired. The VPN needed re-authentication. The cloud dashboard prompted for MFA. And the coffee machine? It asked for a password too. Leo snapped. He stormed into the server room, eyes blazing. “I am DONE remembering secrets for machines that don’t even say thank you!” He grabbed a stack of sticky notes labeled “Prod_DB_P@ssw0rd!” and flung them like confetti. He yanked out a cable labeled “Auth Proxy” and shouted, “You authenticate this!” A junior dev peeked in and whispered, “Is this failover testing?” Leo turned, wild-eyed, holding a keybo...