Portfolio of Jeremy Wemple

What a month

Jeremy Wemple — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:28:32 +0000

Well it’s been an interesting past couple of weeks. We have officially been accepted into a business incubator program in Seattle, WA which starts soon. It will be an interesting ride and I am really excited.

Hopefully you’ll soon know the name Ante Updates, if you are a casino owner .

TechCrunch Hacked

Jeremy Wemple — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:16:28 +0000

Well I want to say I am surprised a web site as large as Tech Crunch was hacked, but I really am not. I believe TC uses one of the largest open source blogging platforms on the web today. WordPress has thousands, if not millions of users world wide blogging at all hours of the day. Open source software are easy targets, especially when the software is as popular as WordPress. With the increased popularity comes increased attention from hackers. Once a script is released to gain access to a WordPress install, it spreads quickly and those who don’t update their software fall victim to these script kiddies.

Although, I bet even if they weren’t using WordPress, they still would of been hacked – eventually.

Rockyou Disaster

Jeremy Wemple — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:30:16 +0000

A security analyst firm decided to take the time to gather some interesting figures on password choices of the 32 million users of Rockyou. If you aren’t familiar, Rockyou stored all passwords in plain, unencrypted text, thus allowing a hacker to download and make use of this information – you can read more on TechCrunch. Anyhow I find the results pretty standard, the most common password used was made up of ‘123456,’ followed by ‘12345,’ and ‘123456789.’ Pretty incredible in today’s technology centric environment where most of those users probably use the same password across multiple platforms.

I wonder how many of those accounts which used these common accounts were created as one time use accounts, where the user never intended to store anything vital or to return to the site again…

Happy New Years!

Jeremy Wemple — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:55:47 +0000

Well as 2009 comes to a close and we open a new chapter for 2010 (twenty ten or two thousand and ten?) I can definitely say what a ride. I can’t decide if 2009 was a great or not so great – it had moments both ways.

The only thing which really matters though is my family is all well and I completed a section of education called the Bachelors Degree(Productions and Operations Management/Information Systems). This peice of paper now grants me the opportunity (come on opportunity, come out from wherever you are hiding…i have candy) to earn more money than those unfortunate bastards who didn’t acquire one – but really, who doesn’t have one these days?

Rock on twenty ten.

Poker: Players with Numbers in their name

Jeremy Wemple — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:37:56 +0000

So I don’t know what is with this weird phenomenon but it seems to me players with a number of some sort in their name are always the worst players. Whenever I get on Full Tilt to play a little poker I look for the tables which signify a donk (a player who is terrible) is sitting down – usually with very high player to flop ratios (above 35%) and excessively high average pots for the blind structure (20x BB). Once I have locked onto my target table I set my sites on the donk – scouting every move a player makes and monitoring how many hands they are playing. The donk is usually pretty easy to find – just look for the numbers in their name. Almost always one of these players is the local table fish. Players such as ‘22rocks’ or ‘broseph319′ are the ones which you want to play against. If you have struck poker gold this player shall fill your tiny castle with wealth.

As Mike McDermott would say, “Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.”

One Less Unemployed Graduate

Jeremy Wemple — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:25:09 +0000

It’s official! I have a job in the professional workforce. I received the call last Monday from my possible future employer letting me know they had a heightened interest in me. A pretty cryptic message but I felt pretty confident about it. As of today though, it is official. I will be talking details starting next week! Go me! Next step is to start looking at the housing scene in central Washington.

Apple: One less board member

Jeremy Wemple — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:39:20 +0000

I am surprised it took this long for Eric Schmidt to resign from Apple’s board. With the announcement of Google’s OS I wasn’t sure how Eric wasn’t continuously caught up in a conflict of interest during board meetings.

Lots of people will be arguing today that this was inevitable, but the news comes faster than expected. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is no longer going to sit on Apple’s Board of Directors, nearly 3 years after accepting a seat.

The resignation comes a few days after the FCC sent letters to Google, Apple and AT&T inquiring why Apple denied the Google Voice application from its iPhone App Store.

Techcrunch Article

Welcome to my humble home!

Jeremy Wemple — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:06:50 +0000

So my wonderful piece of internet real estate is established. I have a few more things I need to finish up before I start on my next project. A professional website for my design business called Digital Apex Designs. It can be found at http://www.digital-apex.com. I hope to peridocially update this blog with interesting articles which I find and cool new websites I discover.

As for now, I am off to play more poker than I can handle. Ciao.

Hello world!

Jeremy Wemple — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:48:41 +0000

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!