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How to stop a dog fight

I was on the dog beach just north of Huntington Beach in SoCal yesterday and my Aussie Cattle Dog got into it with a bullmastiff bitch. The way I saw it was the mastiff instigated the fight and went after Joey with a vengance. She really looked like she was in it for the kill. […]

October 4, 2007 | Aussie Cattle Dogs | 2 comments

It's a beautiful day in socal!

There’s something about Southern California that is totally awesome. I dunno what it is. No, I’m not moving here, I love Seattle. But California rocks too in it’s own special way!

October 2, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

MacBooks auto-detect crossover/non-crossover ethernet modes

I take my dev server and my workstation everywhere with me in a single small backpack. My “dev server” is an intel macbook that dual-boots Linux and OSX. My workstation is a windows laptop. Most of my work is done with the macbook booted into Linux and my windows laptop running an SSH client that […]

October 1, 2007 | Technology | No comments

Smart Image Resizing – Liquid Rescale

Phil Bogle wrote recently about an awesome image resizing algorithm. I found out via a welsh view what happened to it. It’s been launched as a website called RSizr.com and is also available as a Gimp plugin called Liquid Rescale. It’s really really cool to see this amazing algo take the open source route. It’s […]

October 1, 2007 | Code | No comments

Nissan vs Nissan – Trademark Lawsuit

If you’ve ever visited Nissan.com you’ll know the story of Uzi Nissan being sued by Nissan Motor Corp. Having been sued over trademark infringement before, I know how hard this must have been for Uzi – and how hard the decision to appeal must have been. Nissan.com is a descriptive name in the case of […]

October 1, 2007 | Rants | 1 comment

Desert trek

Kerry and I left last Wednesday morning at 6am and drove to Wells, Nevada and spent the night in a Super8 Motel, the only one in the area that would take our traveling buddies (ziggy the fat orange cat and joey the aussie cattle dog). The town was a dive. I know this because the […]

October 1, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.