Guess who’s going to be a dad?
By stunder | June 20, 2008
Whelp about a week ago I had some really good news tossed at me. Hopefully if things go well I will be a dad in about 8 months. I had Alicia go take a test and things came out positive. We then setup an appointment at Kasier and they took the first ultrasound 
I have to admit I got all teary-eyed. I am on top of the world right now and can’t wait to be a dad. The date is wrong I guess the CMOS battery on the machine was screwed up.
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Jetlag dog walking
By stunder | May 31, 2008
So now that we are back from Japan I am sooooo jetlag that every morning I am waking up at 3AM and laying in bed till 5. I can’t sleep at all so I get up and go jogging. Well Alicia and I are taking care of our friend Windi Adam’s dog Olivia. She is the coolest little dog a little high strung but really good. Well I decided to take her for a walk down the beach yesterday day and I took the camera just to get some photos.
I let her off the leash for a bit and she went ape shit nuts running around me.
Once the sun came up Olivia decided she wanted to go on beach patrol and look out for the early morning surfers.
I call this photo “No Lifeguard on Duty”
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Looking back at Japan
By stunder | May 29, 2008
Whelp Alicia and I have made it back from Japan and everything went great. We wish we didn’t have to return to work next week but that’s how the cookie crumbles. So I figured I would start adding some post a kind of day by day look back at our adventures in “The Land of the Riseing Sun”. While on the road I didn’t have much time to blog about it so I figured I would try heading back through memory lane now with some back dated postings.
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Japan Day Number 4 Yokohama and our Anniversary
By stunder | May 19, 2008
Today was our Anniversary so Alicia and I hit the JR line and decided to head out to Yokohama. It was a bit overcast but we weren’t going to allow it to mess with our trip. Alicia planned this whole day out herself and it really turned out great. I love getting out to this coast side town and checking out what the city looked like and some of its history.
The reason we went to Yokohama was to check out their China town area. It was a very large area and there was an enterance right when we left the train station. Before we went into China town we decided to cross over into Motomachi Street in Yokohama to give it a look. It was a just starting to rain but it wasn’t going to stop us. Motomachi St. is kind of like the Ginza Area with high end stores but without the high rise street.
I didn’t know that Alicia had more for me than just the shopping district.
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Alicia and Eric in Tokyo
By stunder | May 19, 2008
Whelp everyone we made it to Japan and we are having a blast. Today we went to Yokohama and walked all around town. We have some photos on Alicia’s Phanphare site (I hate phanphare but she sticks with it.) You might have to sign up for an accout to see the photos. Well besides that we have also made it trough our 1st year of being married. The year flew by before I even knew it and I can see 40 years from now thinking the same thing. Oh well here is a photo of us hanging out in China Town in Yokohama today for lunch.
KANPAI EVERYONE!!!!!! See you when we get back.
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Japan day 3 walking around and SUMO!!!
By stunder | May 17, 2008
So on day three in Tokyo Alicia had a trip to Sumo planned for us in the afternoon. We figured hey lets just wake up and walk around the Ginza area and see what we can see. Tokyo really doesn’t start to bustle until about 9AM so we had the streets to ourselves. I did notice that on the weekends there seemed to be a ton of window washers in the city that took care of the high rises.
While walking down the streets we noticed a cat that just popped out of a random hole between two buildings it was the oddest thing. It was like it came out to say hello to us.
Read on for more about this day it gets better when we get to the SUMO!!!
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Day 2 the Harajuku District
By stunder | May 16, 2008
The next Morning Alicia and I get up at the crack of dawn. See the thing about Japan is their timing is like exactly different from ours. Meaning during the day light or working hours here (in the US) it is afternoon/late night hours for them (in Japan) and viceversa. So to give you an idea of the view from the hotel here is a couple of shots.
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On our way to Japan
By stunder | May 15, 2008
So Alicia and I got on the road today heading for Japan. We took off from Orange County (John Wayne Aiport) to hit our connecting flight in San Francisco (SFO). Our flight was a bit late into SFO because of fog in that area. Alicia was stressing about the trip for a couple of days but the hardest part about getting there was hitting our connecting flight in San Fran. They really need to do some work on the connection between the terminals at SFO. We made it to our seats and 10.5 hours later we were in Narita Airport.
After we reached the airport Alicia picked up our Japan Rail passes and it was on our way to the trainstation in the Airport.
This post is going to run on a bit so to check it out here you go.
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Hanging outside the Turtle
By stunder | May 13, 2008
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Botnets Botnets Botnets
By stunder | April 9, 2008
So I have been working on this Web Content Filtering project at work and the question of “what kind of applications are using HTTP to tunnel outbound of our network?” One of the first applications I can remember that auto discovered outbound openings was the AOL instant messenger client. It would try its default port then try telnet and then port 80. Getting out to the Internet so you could chat with your other friends who were on AOL.
As time has went on some application developers don’t even try to host their servers on other ports they just write them for TCP port 80. Guys started configuring self ran mail servers for mail on port 80 and games were quick to start using the port also so you could meet up with your buddies. Now days VoIP providers use it for their customers behind firewalls. I haven’t done any hard number crunching on this but I would bet up to 10% of your outbound port 80 traffic isn’t even HTTP or web page traffic.
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