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posts from 2008

  1. Http://twitpic.com/ykpx - Das boot!

    Das boot!Das boot!twitpic.com
  2. Http://twitpic.com/ykku - MAM’s (Max’s) first New Year!

    MAM's (Max's) first New Year!MAM's (Max's) first New Year!twitpic.com
  3. Http://twitpic.com/ykk1 - Happy New Year! Enjoying das boot with 2009 😃

    Happy New Year! Enjoying das boot with 2009 :)Happy New Year! Enjoying das boot with 2009 :)twitpic.com
  4. Hacking on wikipedia greasemonkey userscript, continually vexed by standards abuse and inline style

  5. Spent the cash I got for my birthday on a McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern sub. & merch; nice to cross that off the list http://is.gd/ecId

  6. RT @alexsotirov Using MD5 collisions to creating a rogue Certificate Authority trusted by all common browsers: http://www.phreedom.org/research/rogue-ca/

    Creating a rogue CA certificatephreedom.org
  7. That’s ‘wrote’ as in copy and pasted php from two google hits. PHP is gross. Gotta go wash my hands.

  8. Just wrote a plug-in to replace Textpattern’s txp:posted format=“since” to a better human readable format w/ ‘y, m, w, d ago’

  9. Happy birthday good sir!

  10. Enjoying a 750ML Victory V12 from Christmas '07 for my birthday

  11. Happy birthday!

  12. Happy birthday dude!

  13. Happy Birthday! Another fellow Capri 😃 Have fun!

  14. Thanks to everyone for the happy-birthdays!

  15. Happy birthday Brother-in-law!!!

  16. Happy Birthday!

  17. Happy Birthday

  18. Happy B’day from all the Barnett’s! Let’s roll some sushi and celebrate 😃!!

  19. Happy Birthday…maybe the boy will be nice today 😃

  20. 29N outside Charlottesville, VA is named after Jerry Falwell? Wtf is wrong with this state?!?

  21. Happy Birthday to one of the best cat daddies ever!

    TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (DECEMBER 28). You are in control this year and your universe follows the order you set for it. January brings a powerful new vision of the future. Cupid seems to be on your side in February with the people who not only love you back, but help you in various areas of your life. There’s a windfall in May. Scorpio and Leo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 40, 26, 51, 33 and 19.

  22. Happy Birthdizzle, dawg

  23. Happy Birthday dude. Leaving a message on Facebook is literally the least I could do. Almost no effort at all FTW!

  24. Happy bday!

  25. Huppy birfday

  26. Happy Birthday!

  27. Happy birthday, Lewis!!!

  28. Http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907657/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/

    Here’s the two movies I was telling you about…

  29. The binary iTunes music library is terrible.

  30. Arrived in Marshville, NC ‘The home of Randy Travis and county living’

  31. The US Army’s West Point and Paramount’s King’s Dominion are at the same exit off 95.

  32. Is that for illiterate hitchhikers or did the commonwealth really ban thumbs up guestures? Will experiment with passing police cars…

  33. 35M North of Richmond on 95S, the Cracker Barrel exit no hitchhiking sign is a thumbs-up with a red crossed circle overlay…

  34. Bah! Humbug!

  35. Wikipedia has more inline style than Kip Dynamite http://is.gd/diFQ

  36. Enjoying Bill Maher’s Religulous - the American founding father’s bit is the best. The Jeff Beck Group’s Superstitious was also nice.

  37. Ubik, the fortune file

    The text ads on facebook and google make me think of ubik, and with the power of greasemonkey, it’s possible to actually make them all for ubiq - so many use proper nouns that it should be a simple regex.

    Tired of the same old message of the day? What’s a unix user to do? Simply install our patented ubik fortune database wherever you keep fortune files! Safe when used as directed. Do not use internally. Do not execute the ubik fortune database. Do not run as root. Do not add to your login.

    Start with a basic ad.

    Pay your bill on time. Chase +1 rewards you when you pay your bill on time. Apply now for Chase +1.

    Munge it with something like…

    $ad =~ s/[[A-Z]+[a-z]]+/Ubik/g; `

    And get:

    Pay your bill on time. Ubik +1 rewards you when you pay your bill on time. Apply now for Ubik +1.

    But it’s not very easy to take:

    With the Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor, the HP TouchSmart PC gives you all the power you can handle. Get the magic now.

    And programatically get:

    With the Ubik, the HP PC gives you all the power you can handle. Get the magic now.

    I’ll play with it.

    In the meantime, I wanted to grab some Ubik ads to make sure it was going to make sense. Once I had them, I compiled a fortune file. Enjoy!

    > fortune ubik
    Friends, this is clean-up time and we're discounting all
    our silent, electric Ubiks by this much money. Yes, we're throwing
    away the blue-book. And remember: every Ubik on our lot has been used
    only as directed.
    
    > fortune ubik
    "Tired of lazy tastebuds?" Runciter said in his familiar gravelly
    voice. "Has boiled cabbage taken over your world of food? That same
    old, stale, flat, Monday-morning odor no matter how many dimes you put
    into your stove? Ubik changes all that; Ubik wakes up food flavor,
    puts hearty taste back where it belongs, and restores fine food
    smell."
    
    > fortune ubik
    I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the
    suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they
    inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, they
    do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the
    name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I
    am. I shall always be.

    Download

  38. Watching Nova w/ @vurtyou is like watching football in a sports bar. She’s calling out theories, cheering, and trash talking the scientists

  39. Simplepedia

    I integrated two existing greasemonkey user scripts for wikipedia, and added lots of element { display: none; }‘s to the style sheet, and ended up with a userscript I’m calling Simplepedia:

    Wikipedia’s design and style is tiring and cluttered:

    screenshot of wikipedia on the Adrian Belew page

    There is just too much going on!

    Without the entire left bar, banner ads, footers, and tiny sans serif type, wikipedia is much more inviting:

    screenshot of simplepedia on the Adrian Belew page

    There are still issues – some hard coded elements just can’t be undone. The front page language selection doorstop is completely lacking ID elements, and I don’t want to follow their lead and hard code a DOM-walking cleanup. Entire tables exist just to pad out other tables. There are numbered lists that are actually unordered lists with each list item hard coding their number values. Colors and fonts are called out inline all over the place in css in place of proper classes and ids.

    This was inspired by Jon Hick’s excellent Helvetireader user script for Google Reader.

    If you don’t have Greasemonkey yet, go get it. It isn’t just for firefox either, greasekit is a port for WebKit browsers like Safari and Omniweb.

  40. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_Baines_Johnson a classless div style=“background:lavender;”? Who does that? And later, a <th bgcolor=“#dcdcdc”…? Oh, and Vietnam?

    Lyndon B. Johnson - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
  41. Simplepedia, a greasemonkey userscript I made to improve the style of wikipedia: http://is.gd/d0aQ

  42. seriously though,” is inevitably preceded by unfunny and followed with pandering. Don’t do it.

  43. Wikipedia has more inline style than a San Francisco rollerblade marathon

  44. Wikipedia has more inline style a San Francisco rollerblade marathon

  45. Beer and wings @ Mothers; I pitty Sunday morning servers, all their patrons are braindead zombies. Oh well, Celebration Ale pitchers!

  46. Good Morning, How Are You? Shut Up! Don’t Give Me The Small Talk, Give Me The Big Talk. A Million, Million and Six, Oh I love that Big Talk,

  47. Grant is going for a smoke because he is lame

  48. For every object in your house (songs, books, art, etc) derivative of The Sirens ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren ), take a sip. Those girls get around.

    Siren - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
  49. Eximstats -flag1=directory -flag2 directory -flag3=directory directory2 … syntax is a bug imo. “Hi I’m obviously written in perl!”

  50. Https://typographyforlawyers.com/?p=12 preach it from the mountain brother! Preach! Amen! Hallelujah!

    Typography for LawyersTypography for Lawyerstypographyforlawyers.com
  51. Update: authsmtp.com and Google Apps for Businesses in the Cloud Premier Edition (what a terrible name!) seem like best options.

  52. Help! I need a relay server to get e-mail out of Amazon’s EC2, I’m OK with paying a service provider, but only want reliable TLS-SMTP

  53. ”¨¨°º©o.,.o©º°¨¨°º©©º°¨¨°º©o.,.o©º°¨¨“” How has ASCII art not made it to twitter? “”¨¨°º©o.,.o©º°¨¨°º©©º°¨¨°º©o.,.o©º°¨¨“”

  54. Listening to B.B. King for the first time: no wonder so many people find blues guitar boring, this is crap. Zzz-linebend Zzz-linewords

  55. I’d like to take art direction credit for @philip_daigle’s @fbcj avatar (and I think it’s better than @fbcj’s)

  56. Writing my last paper for the semester. I need to get over my infatuation with sentence structures relying on foo, bar, and baz.

  57. Seppuku sounds so much more romantic than it really is

  58. READY 10 PRINT “NO MERGER AFTER ALL” 20 GOTO 10 RUN

  59. Is it too late or too soon for “In what respect Charlie?” jokes?

  60. I’m out-of-band since around '99 or so when the drummer moved out west and the bass player and I stopped hanging out, does that count?

  61. Watching Cats 101 on Animal Planet and sure enough, The Boy is watching TV for the first time ever

  62. JIT salsa: peeled tomato, chopped onions, spring onions, garlic, and serrano peppers, basil, sea salt, pepper; I’m breaking a sweat ♥

  63. Long & rambling college nightmare last night; maybe I should write that paper tonight and be done with this semester

  64. Seven legs, a tail, a low roar, and a soft sigh: http://is.gd/bDdj , http://is.gd/bDbu (& bonus mustache evidence: http://is.gd/bDds)

  65. Is running late, as usually

  66. GENERATIO SPONTANEA: The theory that the goddess Gea created punk rock after hearing Queen’s 1973 BBC performance of ‘Son and Daughter’

  67. Doing entry level stuff using prototype.js, with values from lame vanilla javascript, all to make up for an even lamer (but handy) API

  68. Bitter. that is all.

  69. The Day The Earth Stood Still (orig) act III chase in NW DC: The army chases the cab North on 14th @ Harvard, then West on 15th? Impossible!

  70. I miss my last apartment in DC. http://is.gd/bfwl But only a little bit. http://is.gd/bfwK But I don’t miss DC much. http://is.gd/bfys

  71. Muddy Waters ‘At Newport 1960’ needs a remix. Someone’s mic picked up enough wind to make my subwoofer go all Lord of the Rings. Mojo!

  72. I’m the B-I-Z and it goes like this Eating a bowl of cereal’s on top of my list http://is.gd/bbka Forget eating lunch; I like to munch

  73. Breakfast Cereal (Feat. Biz Markie) chorus

  74. The old “Hey look! Our final paychecks are here!” joke never gets old.

  75. Up at 0430 without an reason to be, lovely.

  76. All traffic lights near the intersection of Falls Rd and Joppa are out, officers are directing traffic

  77. Hanging out by the water cooler, sipping coffee

  78. Dug out my old BOSS ME-8, volt meter, and a soldering iron, took it apart, then tested the DC box, then plugged it in. It worked. Dumb.

  79. Robert Plant’s Hey Joe (from his Dreamland release) is better than The Experience’s. Porl Thompson > early Jimi

  80. In order of booby-trap depth: Laptop F6 numlocks, bottom left corner laptop fns, caps lock, three-finger-chords, d+k home row nubs

  81. Off to a final exam with my number 2 pencil - just something to chew on mind you - the test will be on stone tablets and I have a chisel too

  82. Are they like that in your house too? Like ‘yap! yap!?’ Really? It’s so loud you can’t engage in rational thought? Who’s Timmy? What well?

  83. Merry Christmas!

  84. The bouncer at the hosre just called me the biggrst asshole of the bunch: He loses. Ass.

  85. Http://twitpic.com/qsnn - A derp

    A derpA derptwitpic.com
  86. The crawl is already falling apart. I missed the Cross Street entrence. Ordering sushi now, wtf

  87. Heading to Cross Street Mareket for sushi

  88. Http://twitpic.com/qplv - Santa riding reindeer and ESPN

    Santa riding reindeer and ESPNSanta riding reindeer and ESPNtwitpic.com
  89. Http://twitpic.com/qow9 - Burkes loves Santa. Off to ESPNZone…

    Burkes loves Santa. Off to ESPNZone...Burkes loves Santa. Off to ESPNZone...twitpic.com
  90. Starting crawl-day slightly banged up, as usually. Hydrating, laying a good caloric base, and visualizing Cross Street Market sushi.

  91. Beltway was out of SNPA again, got a Dogfish Head Shelter Pale Cornelius instead. Cheers, happy Repeal Day!

  92. Please Note: Nobody sings the harmony part on The Buzzcocks excellent “Harmony in my Head”. GET IT?!? SEE WHAT I MEAN!?!

  93. Do you like my new @fbcj avatar?

  94. Santacrawl Eve-Eve. The night when Santa’s 'round Baltimore dig out their costumes to figure out if the beard, hat or gloves survived '07

  95. Proof that my IS class prof. is in IT: He’s showing a Strongbad video on the projector right now. At least it’s relevant.

  96. IS final paper is to assess risk and design security goals and controls for a hypothetical org. Hrmm.

  97. Plato on the written word

    I’ve been reading McLuhan a lot lately trying to figure out what effects media shifts have on culture. As parts of the modern world walk away from picturesque media, turning to this new dynamic variant of the written word (my theory, not his), we can look back to previous media shifts for potential effects, transition signs, and so on.

    McLuhan recalls Plato on the transition from the spoken word to the written one…

    If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.

    Plato isn’t a predictor here, he is the voice of conservatism. Plato could likely have recited line and verse multiple complex narratives known throughout his culture, of course he couldn’t concede to modern man standing next to a book on a shelf as having his understanding of that which he can recite. But what of modern cyber-enhanced man with his printed books and television, or more importantly, his transmission control protocol and user datagram protocol over internet protocol?

    I don’t know—that’s why I’m reading McLuhan, and Shirky, and Robb, Vinge and others.

  98. Any sufficiently advanced line noise is indistinguishable from technology. - GS Clarke, on the use of perl

  99. Help, I’ve become an Adrian Belew fanboy, and his catalogue is so large I feel like I’m falling down a rabbit hole.

  100. Poured a homebrew IPA: flat & tastes like an SEA - Someone Else’s Ale. I don’t think my SNIPA clone could have mellowed this much - bad cap!

  101. Rjd2, björk, herbaliser, cinematic orchestra, coldcut, kraftwerk, radiohead, unkle, dj shadow, c+c music facto-WHAT!? http://is.gd/a8BB

  102. My lunch is better than yours. @vurtyou is using old spice jars to send peppers and dressing along w/ my sandwiches now for JIT assembly.

  103. Listening to Cassetteboy’s Festive Christmas to prep for Santa Crawl http://is.gd/a2N9

  104. Coffee is everywhere after I failed to place the carafe under the drip correctly. Oops.

  105. Ever surprise yourself by a campfire w/ hot blue jeans? The boy says the same effect works w/ cat fur + wood stove.

  106. Looked @ college transcript from 7 years ago: terrible. 100 credits after this semester, all 100 level courses next. Years left to finish.

  107. How I almost got myself killed

    I almost got myself killed once and have never written how.

    I was just grabbing a soda from the machine here at work. It’s a slow afternoon the day before Thanksgiving, and I was thinking to myself that I really should quit drinking soda, it’ll kill me some day. Actually, it almost did kill me one day. Kind of.

    In the spring of 1996, I was a middling to underachieving high school junior. One school day in June during the last week of finals the weather was so excellent that my friends and I opted to spend the afternoon at a picnic table at the end of a path through a wooded half acre that bordered the tennis courts that marked the school limits, across a corn field, near a small creek that ran behind the school grounds.

    Third and fourth periods at the end of the semester have nothing on smoking cigarettes with friends at 16. At the end of the afternoon I could ride the bus home, or I could catch a ride with a friend that was not skipping class with us.

    But first, I wanted to get a coke. There were two coke machines in the school, and I opted for the one closest to the parking lot at the risk of being spotted by the teachers from my afternoon classes. The halls were crowded with students dumping books into lockers, heading for the doorways to the rest of their afternoons. I was going against traffic at first, then with traffic as as I reached the midpoint between the parking lot door I’d entered through and the bus driveway doors.

    I got my coke and reversed course. As was my habit, I tapped the pull-tab with the pad of my right thumb while holding the can in my left during my walk back up the hall. I pushed through the door with dozens of other students back out into the sun I’d enjoyed all afternoon, still tapping the pull-tab on my can of coke.


    “So what do I do now?”

    There were three cards face down on my lap. I was holding most of a deck of red bicycles. I looked up at my interrogator, a family friend, and tried to remember how far I was along in the trick.

    “Uhm…”

    I’d learned this trick a few months prior. Use any old deck of cards, jokers in or out, and fan the deck. Offer the subject a card, any card. Ask them to memorize the card. Cut the deck. Place the memorized card back in the cut deck. Shuffle the deck a few times for show, then place the top three cards side by side on a flat surface and ask the subject to pick the one that is their card. They will be wrong. Offer them a second chance. They will be wrong again. Give them the last face down card, which again won’t be their card. Then peel off the top card from the remaining deck. It is their card!

    I don’t remember the magic part that moved the card to the fourth from the top position.

    I didn’t remember then either.

    “What happens next in the trick?”

    I looked around for help. I was definitely in a hospital, and there were definitely my parents and a few aunts and uncles outside the door.

    “What happened? Why am I in a hospital? What’s going on?”

    There was immediately, as I recall it, commotion. I was surrounded by faces.

    “Grant, you were in an accident, you are in the hospital, you hurt your head.” someone said.

    “Lets move him”

    My bed was reclined to nearly flat and the ceiling started sliding from left to right above me, and then from down to up.


    “Hey Grant, we all ditched to come up and see you. You looked fucked up man.”

    Some of the friends I’d been with that afternoon had come to see me. I was in a room by myself. Some time after they left, a second group of friends stopped by. Family was in and out. The right side of my head was shaved completely, the left was not. My Minor Threat t-shirt was gone, my favorite pair of Vans were gone, my jeans were gone.

    From then on, my memory is complete. There is no blacked out gap during which the catheter was removed. There is no blacked out gap failing to store the first time I got out of bed in a few days to walk, with help, to the bathroom, in long term memory. I spent the rest of the hospital stay finishing Stephen King’s The Green Mile serials which family had brought me, having visitors, dozing, and trying not to upset the scabs on my heels, right hip, and right shoulder. All left scars.


    I have since been told from multiple people what had happened to me, but not from any actual witnesses. I’ve been told what probably happened though. I’ve been told what the EMTs did when they arrived, where the helicopter picked me up, how I almost left the hospital that evening before losing my lunch in the lobby, and how I was awake and conversing almost the entire time.

    The funny thing about memory is that each of these stories I’ve been told has been stitched into my memory alongside the events I witnessed. My brain has no problem continuing the narrative after I opened the coke that afternoon outside high school and saw a friend in the parking lot, pulling his car around. My brain has fabricated the precise point in the hospital that my parents and I decided to go back in and ask for a head scan to figure out why I was vomiting. My brain has filled in the doctors telling me I have a subdural hematoma and describing the baseball-stitched scars the operation will leave on my head.

    But I don’t trust any of it. The only reason I don’t trust any of it is that I remember where the gaps started. I remember the gaps, and I remember each source that filled in their version of the events that have since filled them. There is no other obvious tell. All long term memories are brief episodes bordered by gaps, and these fabricated ones aren’t any different.

    As time passes, these distinctions are blurring. Maybe I am gradually recalling the waking moments of that afternoon and these are genuine memories being reconnected through the suggestion of hearing them from others?

    I don’t believe that. None of the resurfacing memories have been contradictory to the suggested versions. Isn’t that strange considering I was the only witness?

    The brain is amazing.

    When I am a tottering old man, be wary of my telling of this story with no gaps, as I likely will. I will have forgotten the second black out, as I tend to do already. I will never forget the card trick. My long term memory kicking-in mid-card trick is the most surreal thing to ever happen to me.

  108. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

  109. Presented tonight, as usual, major communication failure and stage fright and unpreparedness, rambling, etc

  110. I have the diet of a toddler on school nights before class

  111. Sitting in 83S traffic, accident will probably make me late to class tonight. Does the twisty bottom of 83 have a nickname? Want one?

  112. The baltimore santa crawl is this weekend. Love/Hate Responses from friends: A) You are lame B) Can I come along?

  113. ILO mapping of the tab key to form controls: Brilliant!

  114. Ran into a college spanish professor I had 7 years ago at a party last night. Barely passed her class, didn’t ask if she remembered me.

  115. Walking Hampden’s 34th street for the light and art show

  116. Chaise, cake, coffee, computer, cat, carpet musics (https://www.last.fm/music/Carpet Musics). Only one of these things isn’t on or under my lap. Damn cat.

  117. Ist es nicht schön?

  118. Using fluid.app for anything beyond wikipedia and google reader? I’m finally getting into greasemonkey too; très Bien!

  119. Thanks to the wood stove, our thermostat is up to 82 degrees. Running to the basement & 60 minute IPA keg for shelter from the heat.

  120. I complemented @vurtyou on her red Back to the Future vest, she called me mustache man and asked wtf I know. I can’t win!

  121. Steinski attempts to edit Led Zeppelin’s The Crunge from ?/8 to 4/4. http://is.gd/97xe (jump to 46:20) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crunge

    The Crunge - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
  122. Solid Steel #81 is one long interview w/ Double Dee and Steinski covering the history of the Lessons http://is.gd/97xe over the mixes. !!

  123. Taking my mustache to a meeting: awesomeness

  124. Body Language

    In my class tonight, the professor lectured about communications. When she got to the bit about body language and oh if you cross your arms like so, it is communicating that you are closed off, one of my classmates pointed out that many of the theories of body language are based on bad research from the 1960’s and 70’s, pop psychology, and folk wisdom.

    He was, of course, right.

    The common set of most of the knowledge we walk around with is blurred with inaccurate folk knowledge. No field is immune.

    Everything I know about passwords? Wrong. Misguided. Soon to be out-dated.

    Literary analysis? Not my specialty.

    Communications? Sorry, my community college class doesn’t help.

    Music? Ha.

    Getting by with a mix of real knowledge and folk wisdom in any field is only natural. True depth in anything requires, on average, about $1000 investment value in equipment, reading, classes, and so on, and ten years practice. Well, about ten years, some are slower or faster than others. And far too many chase the dollar investment thinking it’ll make up for the ten years thing. And even then, the conventional wisdom baggage never goes away.

    Nothing is immune until humanity gets the brain-in-a-vat thing figured out.

    So this poor classmate of mine points out, in a largish university class, this concept, and that it has blurred the lines between what is true researched body language, and what is hearsay.

    The teacher is pretty sure about the whole arm crossing thing. Pretty sure. Another classmate is a psychology major and asserts that body language does exist, but that not everyone has the same body language. Another classmate asserts that body language is reliable and that they use it at work. Another classmate is open to the idea that body language is different for everybody, but points out that kids do the arm crossing thing.

    The entire time these bastards are berating the man for what they seemed to understand as his dismissal of body language entirely, I’m watching him. Watching his body language.

    He wanted to cross his arms.

    He didn’t. That would be giving in.

    I knew this like I imagine poker players know each other’s tells after years of playing together. He wanted to cross his arms and swivel his chair so that he would no longer be directly shoulders-square with the rest of us.

    That I knew this, because he was being lectured to by a class full of students, wasn’t the interesting thing. What intrigues me now, an hour later, is that I knew he knew that we knew that he knew.

    I love that.

  125. Act II is universally more interesting than acts I and III.

  126. Browsers show protocol jargon like http:// and https:// as holdovers from dated modal systems. Modal systems are lame.

  127. I always flock to music lists, and always disagree with them. I can’t find any flaws in this one: http://is.gd/8Td6 (via http://is.gd/8TdS)

  128. Outlook Zen Koans

    Outlook error messages must be Zen Kōans. There simply isn’t a rational explanation for a mature product to be so full of useless, annoying alerts.

    The Evidence

    Meet the Cannot Family

    The function cannot be performed because the message has been changed.

    Changes to the meeting cannot be saved. The meeting has been updated by another person. Close and reopen the meeting, and then make your updates.

    The form required to view this message cannot be displayed. Contact your administrator.

    The OK button only makes the messages worse.

    If a dialog can only be dismissed with a single response, it should not exist, because it is no longer a dialog. Well, obviously you say, it is an alert!

    The item cannot be moved. It was either already moved or deleted, or access was denied.

    And it’s twin.

    The item cannot be deleted. It was either moved or already deleted, or access was denied.

    And the twins’s over-grown, uglier cousin

    Some items cannot be deleted. They were either moved or already deleted, or access was denied.


    Yikes, any developer that adds ASCII art (> >) to a graphical interface should have his or her commit privileges revoked.

    How about a bulleted list?

    Cannot mark the items read or unread. The most likely reasons are:

    • You don’t have permission to modify the items.

    • These folders do not support marking items as read or unread.

    • You did not select anything to mark.

    • The server is unavailable.

    Cannot turn off the reminder. You may be reminded again.

    Really? May I please?

    On Time

    Opening a lot of items could take some time. Are you sure you want to open these items?

     

    Some time?

    Here is a dialog takes about 30 seconds to arrive, during which the entire interface is frozen.

    Cannot find file ‘\\network\path\that\is\not\available’. Verify the path or Internet address is correct.

    While this similar dialog, I think indicating that the browser isn’t ready, times out in a few seconds with the following useful error.

    General failure. The URL was: “http://theurl.tld/long/truncated/url/?ohpleasekillme…”. The system cannot find the file specified.

    On matters of temporary files

    The attachments of the message “” have been changed.

    Do you want to save changes to this message?

      

    What is the difference between No and Cancel?

    A program has the attachment open. Changes to the file will be lost unless you save your changes to another file by clicking the Microsoft Office Button in the other program, and then clicking Save As.

    Inhumane by any measure

    Unknown Error.

    A dialog box is open. Close it and try again.

    Simply amazing.

    The frequency a dialog is likely to present itself in QA is directly proportional to the quality of the alert text.

    Share this Calendar with User, Joe
    joe.user@grantstavely.com?

    Permissions: Reviewer (read-only)

     

    Really? Bold e-mail addresses? Lastname, Firstname?

    Pick Yes.

    Your Calendar has been shared with User, Joe. joe.user@grantstavely.com. User, Joe has also granted you access to their calendar and it has been added to the Navigation Pane in your Calendar.

    There are also a few nice messages hidden in the UI that obscure needless complexity

    Extra line breaks in this message were removed.

    And it’s counterpart…

    This message has extra line breaks.

    Ugh.

    This item canot be displayed in the Reading Pane. Open the item to read its contents.

    Informational Wordiness

    Your server administrator has limited the number of items you can open simultaneously. Try closing messages you have opened or removing attachments and images from unsent messages you are composing.

    Conclusion

    So what else can strings find in outlook.exe?

    > strings OUTLOOK.EXE | grep dialog
    Always hide dialog
    

    Indeed.

    The operation failed.

  129. Outlook Zen Koan: No Response Required.

  130. Http://www.last.fm/event/826673 Last.fm is out of control. Who wants to go to the Obama/Biden/Clinton/Oingo Boingo gig in January?

  131. My mustache is better than yours.

  132. Adding friendfeeds to personal microblog; they don’t give their div’s any ID atts, so I have to regex instead of display:none them 😦

  133. Put on CCR, then solo the drum and bass tracks (use the mixer in your head), then fade in a good polka. Craving kielbasa and sauerkraut yet?

  134. We have a few hundred random non-matching matchbooks from @vurtyou’s grandmother; fun to see where she and her husband traveled…

  135. I’m not skipping the Baltimore Santa Crawl. I know I’ll have @sxs3200 (Jesus Santa '06) and @philip_daigle in tow. Anyone else?

  136. Truth: Credence Clearwater Revival’s excellent “Ramble Tamble” is used for the theme music to Family Feud because FF was John Fogerty’s idea

  137. Is The Mekons “Where Were You” remarkably similar to Fugazi’s “Do You Like Me” or is it just a lyrical coincidence?

  138. USB drive -> time capsule wifi -> itunes on powerbook -> wifi -> airport express extending time capsule wifi: fail 😦

  139. Ben and Chrissy’s baby saw it’s shadow and hid again. Five more weeks of winter for the rest of us! 😦

  140. Gave The Boy the old catnip bag, he told me that if he doesn’t come down in a few hours to take him to the vet. He’s in bat country now.

  141. The wood stove was still embers from a large log I put on last night at 10PM; reloaded it 18 hours later and it’s roaring again ❤️

  142. I love listening to lawyers talk about discovery practices. Geeks asking loophole questions crack me up.

  143. Google icebreaker: Name the cartoon character you’d most like to be and why. I went with Daffy Duck from Duck Amuck.

  144. On the road with to Philadelphia with Jason for a Google sales event - where can we get good sushi for lunch?

  145. We fired up the wood-burning stove for the first time this season and are reheating gumbo.

  146. Max’s seems to be full of developer, old guy, and swinger meetups.

  147. #charmsec: Any reason not to ditch the Wharf Rat in favor of Max’s for the next r Meet-up?

  148. Sports! Home team spread was fine until the ref flag-carded the kicker, go #3, hand-eye coordination! Balls! Fists!

  149. SELinux is clippy: You appear to be using httpd. Would you like help: 1) chconing 2) viewing useless sealert -l output 3) disabling selinux?

  150. Troubleshooting SELinux every few years makes so not fun. Does anyone wonder why this gets disabled so often?

  151. If the number of secured gates and locked doors one has to pass through to get to their cube is any indication of coolness, I’m Chilly Willy

  152. The secong day is always worse. My wrist is demolished due to nailgun carelessl. Airtools > me.

  153. We are playing Taboo in a college class as part of someone’s presentation and none of us have any idea why. Halp.

  154. Ambiguously Hyperbolic

    Language shift is unavoidable, and passing fads of cultural catch phrases and idioms are to be enjoyed. Word’s meanings shift, begin to lose force, take on secondary contrary meanings, and eventually come to mean something wholly different. Idioms that become popular in one field may cross to join the confusing jargon of business analysis, or of political discourse, or of art, and so on.

    Some are becoming ambiguously hyperbolic jumbles. Ranting about these is silly, but given the shifts they are undergoing, perhaps they are best avoided in your writing.

    A Perfect Storm has become the new “we believe we have found all factors leading to the undesired event, and most of them were somewhat undesirable themselves.” It is a complex world and many of our systems are tightly linked, that does not make every event a perfect storm.

    Carrot and Stick is a nice idiom: influence others by withholding a promised reward; as when dangling a carrot from a stick in front of a donkey. It is shifting to suggest influencing others by alternating between delivering a promised reward when small goals are met and punishing with a big stick when small goals are not met.

    Sea Change isn’t just a morose Beck album, it is from Shakespeare’s Tempest:

    “Full fathom five thy father lies,
    Of his bones are coral made,
    Those are pearls that were his eyes,
    Nothing of him that doth fade,
    But doth suffer a sea change,
    into something rich and strange,
    Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell,
    Ding-dong.
    Hark! now I hear them, ding-dong, bell.”

    That sounds like a classical metamorphosis to me, not something one experiences when taking on a new job, or doing the same job in a slightly different environment.

    Decimate now needs to be used with supporting evidence or abandoned until it has fully lost it’s one-tenth reduction meaning and finally rests as a synonym for annihilated.

    The pronunciation of nuclear wants to change to nukular very badly. Nuclaer is awkward; the hard stop of the ‘c’ using the back of the tounge is followed by the ‘l’ formed with the front of the tounge – unavoidably prone to shift.

    A martini has become a call drink; with so many drinks ending in -tini and the blur between vodka and gin, abandon all hope of restoring the proper gin to vermouth ratio and order a Hendricks-rocks.

    Language change tends to slow, I’m told, as literacy rates increase. With just-in-time learning, will this slow even further? No more will we have to guess at what it means to throw someone under the bus, we can Google it.

    Did you think I actually knew that Tempest passage?

  155. Doing homework the day before class instead of hours before class, as an experiment. Basement be damned.

  156. Dark Side of the Town Hall

    For the second Presidential Debate of the 2008 Obama / McCain presidential race, I tried an old psychedelic expirament: synchronization with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. It worked better than I expected, and I microblogged the entire experience.

    Dark Side of the Town Hall
    Figure 1. Dark Side of the Town Hall.

    Try it yourself.
    Queue up Dark Side of the Moon and begin playing as Tom Brokaw says “Good Evening”.

    Yes, this is silly.

    I noticed synchronicity a few times:

    I’m watching tonight’s debate on mute with Dark Side of the Moon playing. I
    call it Dark Side of the Town Hall. 6:41 PM Oct 7th

    Started Dark Side right when Tom Brokaw said “Good Evening” - the pulse
    background is kinda creepy, laughing, screaming 8:03 PM Oct 7th

    Awesome: They shook hands just as Breathe kicked in. IT WORKS! 8:04 PM
    Oct 7th

    Obama answers his first question to the first stanza of Breathe ♫ “Don’t
    be afraid to care / look around, choose your own life” ♫ 8:05 PM Oct 7th

    McCain answers his first question to creepy synth pattern of ♫ On The Run
    8:08 PM Oct 7th

    “Not You Tom” didn’t synch, then he pauses, then the plane wreck sound
    effect at the end of ♫ On The Run ♫, then McCain’s answer. 8:09 PM Oct 7th

    Obama “other folks” eh? Oh all of them that come across your desk? ♫ Time
    ♫ is revving up - clauses end in that droning low E 8:11 PM Oct 7th

    McCain on Obama’s cronies as the Gilmours’ solos in ♫ Time ♫ “Buy up
    these bad loans” wailing blues 8:13 PM Oct 7th

    Obama rebuttal during solo refrain, nicely synced, contine through last
    verse of Time and end right as the song ends 8:16 PM Oct 7th

    McCain rebuttal backed by Clare Torry. Oohhh “The American workers are the
    best in the world” 8:18 PM Oct 7th

    Obama makes promises of investment (with what $?) to Ms. Finch during mellow
    lull in ♬ The Great Gig in the Sky8:21 PM Oct 7th

    Money ♬ and McCain’s rebuttal sync perfectly. “Let’s look at our records
    instead of rhetoric” “Money…root of all evil today” 8:22 PM Oct 7th

    As the sax solo winds gives way to guitar solo in ♬ Money ♬ McCain
    describes order of priorities. He’s really good at this. Gilmour I mean. …
    8:25 PM Oct 7th

    Obama compares himself to JFK as ♬ Money ♬ winds down. Really? /that/ JFK?
    Really? “Giving none away” ♬ “Giving none away” ♬ 8:28 PM Oct 7th

    McCain describes eliminating government departments by specifically solving
    defense spending problems to ♬ Us and Them ♬ Clinton-omics? 8:30 PM Oct
    7th

    ♬ “Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words / the poster bearer cried Listen
    son, said the man with the gun / There’s room for you inside” ♬ 8:32 PM Oct
    7th

    McCain on nailing Jello to the wall as ♬ Any Colour You Like ♬ begins
    (I’ll take Lime with vodka, in a dixie cup) then describes his tax plan …
    8:37 PM Oct 7th

    Obama describes his tax plan to ♬ Brain Damage ♬, then McCain plays up his
    maverick record to the same. 8:41 PM Oct 7th

    Eclipse ♬ ends as McCain comments on environment. Nuclear power, or
    something like that. 8:45 PM Oct 7th

    Debate continues, The Dark Side of the Town Hall does not. ♬ “There is no
    dark side of the town hall really. Matter of fact its all dark.” ♬

  157. Just finished reading Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Org… by Clay Shirky. http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshelf/books/1469412?ref=stz

    Facebookapps.facebook.com
  158. I hate pulling wire. 100’ of 12 gauge in the basement walls later and two basement rooms are joined to whole-house-audio system.

  159. Impressed how defensive Floyd in the excellent Live @ Pompeii film is defensive about using synthesizers but still being musicians

  160. The ‘valid xhtml’ bragging in so many Wordpress blog foots are lies. Code is poetry I guess, right? Er, markup.

  161. I registered for the Philadelphia session of google’s Data Governance in the Cloud workshop http://services.google.com/events/cloudcamp2008

  162. XM & Sirius mashup means we get XMPR /and/ NPR, with different awesome programming! Yay!

  163. Friday, Thursday told me all about you and I’m not falling your Saturday impression so stop fooling around.

  164. I’m looking for examples of the ‘my’ meme pre-win95 My Documents to find who started the growing my(org.org|.org).tld intra/extranet meme

  165. Real keyboard cowboys use DOS with Command Extensions enabled.

  166. Enjoying a Unibroue Maudite and not writing the last two pages of my paper http://is.gd/7g81

  167. I’m having complete and utter writer’s block working on a school assignment for the third day in a row. Argh.

  168. Apps that steal focus suck. Interfaces that allow a dialog to lock focus for the entire interface suck plus infinity.

  169. And people say I don’t make sense: @dogfish_ale you seem to be auto-tweeting an RSS feed of your own tweets? Look in opposing mirrors much?

  170. Drier squeak is now permanent and loud enough to hear upstairs from the basement. EEeeeeEEEEEee…EEEeeEEEereE…EEerreeEEERR… for hours! 😦

  171. REDACTED for my meeting today about REDACTED. Man, you wouldn’t REDACTED FFS! Who does that! They’ll probably delete this but REDACTED

  172. Some time between lunch and now, I bit my tongue. I don’t remember it, but it is the only explanation. I need to lay off the gum.

  173. Burned my thumb dumping roux into the stock pot, using the leftover cut celery @vurtyou froze for a cold compress.

  174. and use that raw log data to give magic back to partners, customers, etc…

  175. Start-up idea: use APIs and partnerships on linkedin, last.fm, flickr, facebook, twitter, friendfeed, and so on, to export raw log data…

  176. Did you know that my wife’s middle name “Walker” is an old Native American word for “tells rambling stories”?

  177. My grandmother after all 100+ of us sang Happy Birthday to her for her 80th: “I’m the luckiest person in the world and I love you all!”

  178. There Goes Rhymin’ Simon is a great album to put away a few bottles of wine to.

  179. Random fact I just made up: There is no XYZ in ping data padding ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwabcdefghi’ because ping doesn’t like Rush either.

  180. Is Elam Barnett

  181. If I go this year, it’ll be my sixth Santa Crawl. http://is.gd/6yh8 Currently that’s a big IF. It’s always the same Sat in Dec, the *****.

  182. Weight Watchers ‘Chicken’ Parmesean for diner with the alley blinds closed. Don’t want the pigeons to see me - I think this fowl is squab.

  183. SonicWall guys, your crappy outsourced spamming listserve needs more if loops http://is.gd/6x1Y

  184. If your RSS feed isn’t full content, you are lazy, evil, or don’t get RSS.

  185. Thursday, I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

  186. Make ready the fleet for the jump off of 83N into uB traffic, Mt Vernon detours, and slow meander back to 83N south of jump off. Facepalm.

  187. Dear ultra-passive driver making left without a left turn light: we have sat through four greens, please, yes we can, etc…

  188. I need a designated driver this morning.

  189. I stick with IT to help people w/ human factors, and I’m into infosec becuase it is where IT has failed human factors the most

  190. Late to @charmsec, on the way now, walking

  191. Heading to @charmsec tonight, but I forgot the figlet sign! Come looking geeky, find me, a bald guy, and a ponytailed guy drinking beers

  192. Well, this is nice.

  193. This is called ability to accomplish a thing by sheer cunning.

  194. I’ll bet those socialists at the Grant Park Chicago party wish they were at an invite only party listening to a wedding band in AZ.

  195. NBC is putting red/blue state shapes on an ice rink, @will_torres and @glen_francis, go throw some elbows!

  196. Watching Psycho on AMC instead of 1% votes reported filler on CNN. Norman Bates reminds me of a young Aaron from Primer.

  197. CNN pandering to the critical Star Wars viewership tonight flubs by mentioning Trek in same sentence. I want Triumph to come chat w/ them

  198. Outlook Zen Koan: “A dialog box is open. Close it and try again. OK”

  199. That was painless. Diebold touch screens with smart cards. Hope they weren’t pwned.

  200. Senior center line is 1/3 way around the block. Should move fast.

  201. Baltimore ballot questions A through P: “sir, let me hold some $$, my car broke down and I gotta catch a bus? No? Food money? I got kids.”

  202. A failed analogy to stock market shorting practices

    For Halloween I borrowed some candy from a neighbor. See, I was counting on nobody liking the candy by the end of the night, so by borrowing it instead of wearing a great costume and earning it up front, I was going to make out like a bandit. I didn’t even say trick or treat to my neighbor!

    “I’ll be back in costume at the end of the evening to say trick or treat and my costume will be cool enough to justify your lending to me this bunch of candy now. This is some great candy, I’ll probably come back as a fully mechanized T. Rex on stilts or something.”

    I gave out the candy all night to people wearing really good costumes. I mean full face-paint zombies with fake broken-arms, and kick-ass home made impressions of characters from my favorite movies, and cute kids in animal suits, not those cheap rubber face masks and cartoon-character store-bought kits.

    “Trick or treat!”

    “I love your costume! You are going to love this candy!”

    I was giving the stuff away by the fist full.

    Then as the night wore down, I went back to the people I got the candy from, and I had on one of those crappy store-bought costumes.

    “Your candy is crap and every kid knows it. Across the neighborhood, little plastic pumpkins and pillow-cases are being dumped and sorted, and the candy we gave out will be first up for trade tomorrow in the cafeteria, after apples and ziplock bags of popcorn.”

    “So? Are you seriously wearing just a Scary Movie mask and the same clothes you wore all day? What happened to the dinosaur rig?”

    “Yes, you see, I’ve shorted on you. I knew this candy was crap, and I got the value of seeing some amazing costumes tonight in exchange for your candy, because they didn’t think it was crap, but now the consensus is that it’s crap.”

    “…”

    “Trick or treat, sucker.”

  203. Ugh, 103 question scantron and 13 essay questions. I haven’t used a number two pencil this much in ten years. Who still uses scantron!?

  204. I am sitting in a room, leaving myself voicemail of myself leaving myself a message using a second speakerphone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room

    I Am Sitting in a Room - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
  205. I am sitting in a room, leaving myself voicemail using speakerphone phone, of myself leaving myself a message using second speakerphone :||

  206. Scoops of food hit 3 bowls, 12 paws patter on 2 wooden staircases, one after the other, 6 eyes watching, only the one eats. Two wait.

  207. Took Dad to Fogo De Chao for dinner, now watching The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Long weekend!

  208. Amazing Halloween party @ Linda & Kevin’s w/ my Barf costume provided by Ken & Erica. Until next year, cheers.

  209. On C.S. Lewis

    Quotation collections are history’s microblogs. C.S. Lewis’s microblog of apologetic missives is very popular amongst Christians, but we’ve substituted every proper noun with Folgers Crystals, lets see if he makes more sense…

    “Coffee tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys…”

    “Coffee and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.”

    “Coffee dispenses with modesty.”

    “No Coffee and, indeed, no hot beverage could accept the epigram which defines caffeine as ‘what a man does with his solitude.’”

    “It is in the process of being worshipped that Coffee communicates Its presence to men.”

    “Man’s conquest of Coffee turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Coffee’s conquest of Man.”

    “Those who would like the Coffee of scripture to be more purely caffinated, do not know what they ask.”

    Play along at home.

  210. Omniweb feature request: ⌘-C with no text selected should yank active tab’s url to the clipboard. The url could be shortend via is.gd

  211. #!/ignore/jargon blacktree.com or omniweb helpfully bzip’s and then salts the QS dmg on GET. bunzip2 errors it. Omniweb or blacktree bug?

  212. Substituting Coffee for in every capitalized noun of moronic C.S. Lewis apologetic claptrap; beginning to understand http://is.gd/5qbY

  213. It is in the process of being worshipped that Coffee communicates Its presence to men.

  214. Http://twitpic.com/jbxg - Barf ftw

    Barf ftwBarf ftwtwitpic.com
  215. Got my first bug report from Argentina. My distribution had an empty compiled version. Slight hurdle! Fixed, and thanked submitter.

  216. Frantically fabricating spaceballs costumes: White hazmat jumpsuits, inside-out kickballs krylon’d white for helmets, black boots, and belts

  217. I am dissapointed in the kids in my neighborhood this year. We had at the most a dozen stop by, what gives?

  218. Pho Huong Moi stomach distension mission accomplished.

  219. Wilco tickets sold out in 3 minutes? Did anyone manage to get any? Ticketmaster is not finding any for me ☹

  220. Class note taking solution search: moleskine, vim, textwrangler, word, omnioutliner.

  221. Http://xefer.com/twitter/grantstavely must rectify 3AM gap this weekend.

    Twitter Chartsxefer.com
  222. RT @TheOnion Struggling Lower-Class Still Unsure How Best To Fuck Selves With Vote http://twurl.nl/wdenvu

  223. Hi guys! Long time listener first time caller! I called to¤BATTERY TOO LOW FOR RADIO USE¤

  224. The supply side of supply and demand of digital content is dictated by storage, bandwidth, and paradoxically, (ignoring IP law) demand.

  225. I’m Grant Stavely and I support this massage.

  226. One round on Don Julio reposado and Mex is out. Worthless. On to their blanco. Die Mex die.

  227. I’m Grant Stavely and I support this massage.

  228. One round on Don Julio reposado and Mex is out. Worthless. On to their blanco. Die Mex die.

  229. Anyone know Prospect? I just got some MessageLabs marketing and I would like to pass it on to the intended recipient. http://is.gd/57wj

  230. Manning a security awareness booth as usually, no literature means I get to ask lots of questions instead; learning a lot

  231. I need help making this costume (specifically the hemet) by Saturday http://is.gd/55VP

  232. Hating the tradeoff of my panic-proof mellow 'tude with complete inability to silence brain and sleep: been up since 2-ish

  233. Inbox 500+. ×delete× you are my only friend right now.

  234. @commonwombat flattery will get you nowhere, @ssoper I won’t be back in Gburg for DFH Ale House tonight, it was just a one-day thing ☹

  235. Continuing @gadievron’s thought, sites that lack https: flickr, picasa, my university (UMBC) library, forums.somethingawful. Short list!

  236. Tried Flock; Skin UI, default browser begging, yet another aggregator, ⌘-q, default browser begging again, gross, ☹, trashed

  237. Tried Flock; Skin UI, default browser begging, yet another aggregator, ⌘-q, default browser begging again, gross, ☹, trashed

  238. Botnets preso is stale. Yes, we get what c&c is, yes protocols used can vary, yes Brant told me, something something matriculates on a rug…

  239. Am @ NIST for Techno Forensics 2008. They bragged about the accuracy of their digital watches on the wall. HHGTTG was right, as usually.

  240. Firefox 3 caches very aggressively, frustrating to use when developing dynamic content

  241. How many useless local disk revision snapshots of http://is.gd/4QhD rainbow tables does it take to fill /snapshots? 2. Weekend sysadmin FTW.

  242. Http://is.gd/4Qcx what my old Open Source rants must have sounded like to others. (video link)

  243. Carving pumpkins with friends. Mine is empty but I’m not carving a design until I get home because I want to use my powertools on it.

  244. Carving pumpkins with friends. Mine is empty but I’m not carving a design until I get home because I want to use my powertools on it.

  245. gs_linkedin

    Dynamically present Linkedin.com profile hresume data on your Textpattern blog

    Summary

    Gs_linkedin is Textpattern a port of Brad Touesnard’s Wordpress plugin LinkedIn hResume. It grabs the Microformated hResume block from your LinkedIn public profile page allowing you to add it to any page with a simple textpattern tag and apply your own styles.

    Thanks to Mariano Absatz for help reporting bugs.

    Download

    gs_linkedin is released under the GPL. Download it.

    Setup / Installation

    Your LinkedIn profile must be configured to “Full View”. The default view is “Basic”. Once the Linkedin API is public this could change.

    The hResume classes and ids are left in place and can be styled as you wish. Below is the css Brad Touesnard created for his plugin, as well as my modified version.

    The plugin does not currently use any cache, fetch images, or require any non-standard php configurations.

    Usage

    gs_linkedin requires two attributes.

    • linkedin_src – the url of your public linkedin.com profile
    • name – your full name

    Example

    <txp:gs\_linkedin linkedin\_src="/images/http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=5919187" name="Grant Stavely" />

    CSS

    I prefer a very basic style and hide much of the linkedin-specific content.

    #overview, div.profile-header, div.actions,
    #summary h2, summary h3, #additional-information,
    .info, .skills  {
        display: none;
    }
    #experience ul.vcalendar li.experience {
        position: relative;
    }
    abbr {
        text-decoration: none;
        border: none;
        color: #999;
        font-style: italic;
        font-size: .9em;
    }
    .organization-details {
        font-size: .9em;
        color: #999;
    }
    .org summary {
        font-size: 1.2em;
        font-style: italic;
    }
  246. Rotary-hammer drill, 6 lag bolts, lead lag shields, and lots of brick dust: TV is now wall mounted in 90yr-old bricks. Fear of failure: high

  247. Posted textpattern linkedin plugin to textpattern.org, impressed that they eat their own dogfood, and at their trust in the txp community

  248. Pandering eh? http://is.gd/4M7m I never knew that alternate definition.

  249. @will_torres says “Click here to help fight click-jacking”

  250. Annoying office-mates with only bearable Shaggs song ♬♫♪ My pal’s name is foot foot ♪♫♬ http://is.gd/4JjO

  251. Http://is.gd/4x16 Early voting in MD is prohibited by state constitution. Amendment will be the first Q on the ballot. PS http://is.gd/4FbJ

  252. Manning a security awareness booth passing out identity theft and phishing awareness documents (and passing out schwag) REDACTED etc…

  253. Converted a Wordpress hresume microformat parsing plugin into a Texptattern plugin last night. Of course the css is the hardest part =/

  254. Once the music industry falls apart, will this autotuned, normalized, compressed, maxed-levels trend finally die? So bad.

  255. Warp XP

    In 2001 I was answering phones for a company that used OS2/Warp on the desktop, while I tried to find a technical job as the dot-coms crashed.

    Warp was six years old at the time, and pretty terrible compared to then-modern alternatives. It was a dinosaur.

    Legacy applications and the enterprise directory services infrastructure made the switching costs so high that it would be another year or so before they were able to switch to Windows XP.

    Luckily the OS is becoming irrelevant. Ignoring the cloud ~computing~ marketing noise: cheap open-protocol traffic tunneling, multi-platform presentation layer client/server authentication and application projection, virtualization, and SaaS offerings are killing the OS market stranglehold. With this lower barrier to entry, expect fun innovations on the desktop. What will change with multi-touch projection walls or tables, universal wireless network access, e-paper, and irrelevant local storage and battery life concerns?

    Actually, I’m just looking forward to not using Windows XP. It is a dinosaur.

  256. Once the music industry falls apart, will this autotuned, normalized, compressed, maxed-levels trend finally die? So bad.

  257. The Office: 1912 | Shorpy Photo Archive

    None of us have a truly paperless office. The entire idea is an unreal sales pitch. We do have an mostly paperless office.

    November 1912. "Government Printing Office, Washington." - black and white photograph of a the interior of an early 20th century office setting, with half a dozen desks along brick walls to the right lit by large, tall windows. At each is seated a man or woman in period dress. Along the left the entire wall is cabinets, most of which have a drawer open.
    Figure 1. November 1912. "Government Printing Office, Washington." - black and white photograph of a the interior of an early 20th century office setting, with half a dozen desks along brick walls to the right lit by large, tall windows. At each is seated a man or woman in period dress. Along the left the entire wall is cabinets, most of which have a drawer open..

    Don’t think so? Look at this governmental office scene from the beginning of the 20th century. Those books are not decorative testimonials of owner style and taste to be discussed, or lent to visiting information workers, or even more rarely, referenced. Those filing cabinets are not full of contractual records preserved for compliance reasons. Well, they might have some of those, but mostly they are the operational raw data of the business, and in this place, of the government.

    They are the file servers.

    More than half the people in that photo are now, in fact, infrastructure. Reassemble this operation with modern equipment and they will be right-sized.

    Look how nice those pieces of infrastructure dress for work! My, how low the cubical walls are, why it’s almost the revolutionary open floor plan style office I’ve read about tech companies using in so many business articles!

    Are all the file drawers open as staging for the photo, or is that the actual equivalent of locking an open file folder directory?

    Unrelated and cool: Note the ghosts in the farthest depth of the picture.

  258. As I was saying: http://is.gd/4ApL earnings calls around the world are rolling out this week, maybe it will turn around now? Nahhh…

  259. The Walkin’ Blues http://is.gd/4AoM has to be the lyrical inspiration for The Air is Getting Slippery http://is.gd/4AoW

  260. Http://xrl.us/oupne Leech gmail from memdumps. @electricfork and I did this last year for Google spreadsheets from memdumps but much lamer.

  261. Unsubscribed: Engadget, Techcrunch, /., boingboing, k10k, favrd, and minor others. Unread RSS went from 1000+ to 200+

  262. Thursday: sushi lunch, friday: sushi dinner, monday: sushi and thai lunch, tuesday: sushi lunch, tomorrow: attempt to breathe under water

  263. Wife’s red-state grandparents are going blue for the first time in their lives because of concerns re: Palin and McCain’s debate performance

  264. Unsubscribed: Engadget, Techcrunch, /., boingboing, k10k, favrd, and minor others.

    Survivors: http://grantstavely.com/blogroll

  265. Information overflow: today between serious REDACTED, I will be unfollowing you on twitter and deleting your RSS feed. Me, not you, etc

  266. This class is a vocabulary drill; teaching strat: say “stop and think”, then ask people what a term is until someone gets it right. Ugh.

  267. Writing a paper for ECAD210, taking a contrarian BS-calling approach as usually.

  268. Sunglasses at Night: Unintelligible chorus “something something die in shades” FTW. I thought riff was from Thriller, but it’s a year older

  269. Sunglasses at Night: Unintelligible chorus “something something die in shades” FTW. I thought riff was from Thriller, but it’s a year older

  270. Sane usability in Terminal.app, your path to enlightenment, etc: http://is.gd/4mmw colors + http://is.gd/4mmI Droid Sans Mono

    is.gd - Shortened URLShortened URLis.gd
  271. If you think I know what I’m doing or am a unix apologist, I submit my frequent use of “find ./ | grep”

  272. Darwinports and yum both have fish, http://is.gd/4nH7 three years after I gave up on it, like it++, regret not staying w/ it. chsh’d to it.

  273. Bastement doors are leaning in place. Furniture, tv, audio, guitar gear in basement - main floor is ‘normal’ for the first time since March

  274. Splitting firewood all day in Glen Burnie with Francis G. & Amanda for winter stashes; anticipate running the wood stove a lot this winter

  275. I’ve said it before, but if you only listen to one mix, it should be DJ Food’s Raiding the 20th Century. https://www.ubu.com/sound/dj_food.html It’s brilliant.

    UbuWeb Sound - DJ Food ubu.com
  276. Mail.app IDLE support + Cyrus IMAPD is excellent. I can’t find a reason why typing in the new-message window lags to 20wpm.

  277. To date, man has made no better use of technology not in physics textbooks than automating pre-tech systems. Only an AI will change that.

  278. Any technology evolves until it supports messaging. It is then abused until it reaches a commons dilemma. A replacement is created. Repeat.

  279. Classmate suggests a company use ‘a little screen hooked up to a dsl line to push promotions to customers’. Didn’t mean TV or PC. Amazed.

  280. To date, man has made no better use of technology not in physics textbooks than automating pre-tech systems. Only an AI will change that.

  281. Making the Gambler's Fallacy Disappear: The Role of Experience — HBS Working Knowledge

    The Harvard Business School Working Knowledge blog has posted an interesting paper about the gambler’s fallacy, the notion that when presented with random binary events, we tend to identify patterns which we believe will impact future events. As an analyst, this is very interesting.

    I wonder if after reviewing six false positive events, having only heard about true positives from third parties, can reaction time to future alerts be expected to slow? Where F is a false positive and T is a true positive, is TFFFFFFF to be handled differently than FFFFFF? Is it incorrect to do so? The paper relates instances where it is correct to subscribe the gambler’s fallacy, and surely identifying a systemic form of false positive with no change to alerting controls is an adequate example.

    But what about non-systemic repeat false positives? An alert looking for something simple like a secret word, could first fire on an e-mail, then an instant message, then a file transfer, then an inbound connection to a web server, and all from unrelated sources. An analyst would be wrong to assume the gambler’s fallacy only if the secret word is not so secret after all. If it is indeed secret and the alerts were coincidence, what of no similar alerts for a month, followed by another string of false positives?

    What if the analyst can reliably expect a true positive and knows it is only a matter of time? I expect that would prevent the gambler’s fallacy from effecting reaction times, as it is nearly equivalent to being presented with FFFFFFFTFTT after the events have transpired.

    Unfortunately unlike experiment and true binary random chance, analyst’s both handle events they can reliably expect, and have control or tuning capabilities of alerts. An analyst can and should tune a control’s or alarm’s sensitivity or volume to prevent FFFFFFFF occurrences but always at the risk of squelching FFFFFTFFF detections.

  282. Any technology evolves until it supports messaging. It is then abused until it reaches a commons dilemma. A replacement is created. Repeat.

  283. Classmate suggests a company use ‘a little screen hooked up to a dsl line to push promotions to customers’. Didn’t mean TV or PC. Amazed.

  284. MailChannels | Anti-Spam Blog: An update to the email standards

    The SMTP RFC’s have been replaced! A few things from the list caught my eye:

    • No spaces are permitted after or before the ‘mail from:’ colon.
    • 587/submission is back in play and recommended
    • Lots of striked-out garbage
    • Post DATA 550’s!

    The previous RFC on all but the ‘mail from:’ items have been ignored by most sysadmins for security reasons.

  285. Https FBI site ssl is broken, and then the site is broken. http://failover.fbi.gov/failover.htm

  286. Neighboring cubicle dweller is dusting his desk for fingerprints using artificial creamer and packing tape. Dude passed a psych screen?

  287. $FREAKOUT=echo -e “\007” in shell script alert, PuTTY using Super Mario Bros. 1 ‘brick.wav’ bell, cranked Tivoli speakers.
    So.
    Nerdy.

  288. If my server is in a cloud and I type "echo -e “\007” does anyone here the system bell?

  289. Italian friend: No Internet? Want me to run yoa phone? You could dial up your 56k and use what is it? Goofer? Me: gopher? Him: Yes, goopher.

  290. Doing REDACTED with REDACTED at REDACTED. Whoa! Look at that load average REDACTED good thing REDACTED doesn’t know about this

  291. Repeat: I can tell it’s election season because pot holes on East Fayette Ave are getting filled. Yeah, we should re-elect these guys!

  292. @commonwombat help the rest of us understand your one-man Genovese Syndrome: leave bait (erasable spray paint?) and take pictures.

  293. RT @fakejohnmccain: OK, I suppose it was only a matter of time until shit like this started showing up: http://is.gd/49MY (hat tip @_huny)

  294. New rule: no martinis on debate-nights.

  295. SNL could get by this weekend just on sketches featuring, McCain’s ‘incredulous-face’,

  296. This shit almost helps me understand religion. Or, following a good priest at least. It doesn’t, but it’s right there, I think.

  297. I’m a jerk to my own friends. I’m a reformer.

  298. Ignoring the shovels full of bullshit on both sidesof the TV, I came home at 9PM to a hot meal my wife made: amazingly awesome. <3

  299. I don’t watch 60 minutes very often. When does the ‘not taking a dump, leaving a dump’ guy come on?

  300. SNL could get by this weekend just on sketches featuring, McCain’s ‘incredulous-face’,

  301. This shit almost helps me understand religion. Or, following a good priest at least. It doesn’t, but it’s right there, I think.

  302. I’m a jerk to my own friends. I’m a reformer.

  303. Ignoring the shovels full of bullshit on both sidesof the TV, I came home at 9PM to a hot meal my wife made: amazingly awesome. <3

  304. I don’t watch 60 minutes very often. When does the ‘not taking a dump, leaving a dump’ guy come on?

  305. Daemonlogger on an OC3 Rolling over logfile… with a 25MB rollover Rolling over logfile… capture file is Rolling over logfile… cute

  306. My respect for security professionals goes up with they describe crimes without making up a new name for the same crime on the Internet.

  307. Dark Side of the Economy debates tomorrow. Seats are still available.

  308. Dark Side of the Economy debates tomorrow. Seats are still available.

  309. So me writing here is like stalking? I must not understand stalking, it looks so much more sinister on America’s Most Wanted re-enactments.

  310. Returning to work after nearly a week out. I’m not looking forwards to inbox madness and hoping it’ll be in the dozens before lunch.

  311. GRANT BLAH BLAH TO ‘user’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘foo’ is equivalent to “passwd user foo”. I love keeping sysadmin a hobby!

  312. University comedy: class and teacher stumbling in a dark room toward the difference between opportunity and weakness. This class needs a bar

  313. What specific is the best example of embodying foo?.. No…that is right but not what I want… No… No. Nobody knows? Specific!” - ECAD210

  314. @mostofmyfolowers are @sillytwitterbots anyway right? - getting much closer though

  315. @howtolosefollowers modify some @preg_replace function over and over

  316. @phptesting stop it! @arnoldschwarzen I’m a copy you idiot, etc

  317. GRANT BLAH BLAH TO ‘user’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘foo’ is equivalent to “passwd user foo”. I love keeping sysadmin a hobby!

  318. University comedy: class and teacher stumbling in a dark room toward the difference between opportunity and weakness. This class needs a bar

  319. What specific is the best example of embodying foo?.. No…that is right but not what I want… No… No. Nobody knows? Specific!” - ECAD210

  320. @commonwombat Thanks, I think @hodgman has the market cornered. Remind me to lend you my copy of /The Areas of My Expertise/

  321. Little-know fact I just made up: Jimmy Page thought the chorus to The The Yardbird’s ‘A Certain Girl’ was so cheesey he slmost didn’t join

  322. I wish there was a unix ‘undo’ kernel module.

  323. Broke the morning silence by putting on Sandinista!. The Boy, who had been napping, keeps looking at the speakers like they are crazy.

  324. Anyone want to take a weekend trip to Iceland? Join a paramilitary? Have you read Dhalgren? I’d be OK w/ an Orchid. I hope. Economy ☟

  325. @fbcj Lets meet tuesday for regex review - you need to keep the /'s on the outside for starters, and $ is end of line, ^ is the start

  326. Anyone want to take a weekend trip to Iceland? Join a paramilitary? Have you read Dhalgren? I’d be OK w/ an Orchid. I hope. Economy ☟

  327. @johnconstable which cat got lost? 😦

  328. Boarding a flight out of Denver for Baltimore. Homework tonight. Glad we didn’t go out last night, sweared at the 4:3AM alarm anyway.

  329. Our cabbie is an amazing atonal whistler comping over smooth jazz, impressive

  330. Just had my picture taken with Charlie Papazian at GABF, now for dinner

  331. Michelob is giving out small vac-packs of hops at the GABF so I tried their Pale - not bad, like an SNPA only less so

  332. Denver is lousy at street signs. Unrelated: wet and cold from wandering to sushi, bookstore, bookstore in the drizzling rain

  333. Nice to see Heavy Seas eye patches represented at the GABF in Denver - had a Loose Cannon for Baltimore, almost feels like Fells

  334. Just has Sam from Dogfish Head sign my GABF tocket

  335. Nice to see Heavy Seas eye patches represented at the GABF in Denver - had a Loose Cannon for Baltimore, almost feels like Fells

  336. Just has Sam from Dogfish Head sign my GABF tocket

  337. @rodizio for brazilian protein gorge before our second night at the GABF

  338. Bjorn Melhus ‘Captain’ installation / video piece at the Denver Art Museum: very cool mix

  339. The Denver Art museum would be a great set for the stronghold intellectuals holed up in after predicting Asimov’s Nightfall

  340. Walking past the Denver Mint - all those weeks of Penny Collecting come full circle #9yearsold

  341. Bartender says I should be Keanu Reeves for Halloween. I prefer Bill to Neo. I’ve got ‘Whoa!’ Going for me either way

  342. World Bank breach vector and timeline would be interesting. Best regards to their SIRT team. Odds the attacker was a paniced state entity?

  343. She: Thinking about an IUD instead, it’s–Me: I know what an IUD is, I read Snow Crash, sheesh.

  344. @fbcj Go to bed!

  345. @sx3200 I didn’t see Stone, was looking for new stuff and trying competitors. Getting Thai somewhere uptown now

  346. Halp I’m stuck in the Pacific Northwest Section of the GABF and can’t get out… OOOHH is that Full Sail?

  347. Belgian Sour palate clenser: GFY

  348. @sx3200 I didn’t see Stone, was looking for new stuff and trying competitors. Getting Thai somewhere uptown now

  349. Halp I’m stuck in the Pacific Northwest Section of the GABF and can’t get out… OOOHH is that Full Sail?

  350. Belgian Sour palate clenser: GFY

  351. The Tommyknocker east coast sales rep has owned my ears for an hour, leaving for Red Rock tourism action next

  352. My metabolism gave out around the 10th mead sample, following that with Avery samples and ribs, then staying out till 1:30 my time: pwnie

  353. My metabolism gave out around the 10th mead sample, following that with Avery samples and ribs, then staying out till 1:30 my time: pwnie

  354. @basicbrewing I enjoyed the pinot blend as well, nice to see I am going the same places you are, must be on the right track

  355. Seated on my flight to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival with an Auster novel and a largish collection of short stories. Sleepy.

  356. Debate continues, The Dark Side of the Town Hall does not. ♬ There is no dark side of the town hall really. Matter of fact its all dark. ♬

  357. Eclipse ♬ ends as McCain comments on environment. Nuclear power, or something like that.

  358. Obama describes his tax plan to ♪ Brain Damage ♪, then McCain plays up his maverick record to the same.

  359. McCain on nailing Jello to the wall as ♪Any Colour You Like ♪ begins (I’ll take Lime with vodka, in a dixie cup) then describes his tax plan

  360. Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words
    the poster bearer cried
    Listen son, said the man with the gun
    There’s room for you inside ♪

  361. McCain describes eliminating government departments by specifically solving defense spending problems to ♬ Us and Them ♬ Clinton-omics?

  362. Obama compares himself to JFK as ♬ Money ♬ winds down. Really? /that/ JFK? Really? Giving none away. ♬ ‘Giving none away.’ ♬

  363. As the sax solo winds gives way to guitar solo in ♬ Money ♬ McCain describes order of priorities. He’s really good at this. Gilmour I mean.

  364. Money ♬ and McCain’s rebuttal sync perfectly. “Let’s look at our records instead of rhetoric” “Money…root of all evil today”

  365. Obama makes promises of investment (with what $?) to Ms. Finch during mellow lull in ♬ The Great Gig in the Sky ♬

  366. McCain rebuttal backed by Clare Torry. Oohhh ‘The American workser are the best in the world’

  367. Obama rebuttal during solo refrain, nicely synced, contine through last verse of Time and end right as the song ends

  368. McCain on Obama’s cronies as the Gilmours’ solos in ♫ Time ♫ “Buy up these bad loans” wailing blues

  369. Obama “other folks” eh? Oh all of them that come across your desk? ♫ Time ♫ is revving up - clauses end in that droning low E

  370. Not You Tom” didn’t synch, then he pauses, then the plane wreck sound effect at the end of ♫ On The Run ♫, then McCain’s answer.

  371. McCain answers his first question to creepy synth pattern of ♫ On The Run ♫

  372. Obama answers his first question to the first stanza of breathe ♫ ‘don’t be afraid to care’ ‘look around, choose your own life’ ♫

  373. Awesome: They shook hands just as Breathe kicked in. IT WORKS!

  374. Started Dark Side right when Tom Brokaw said ‘Good Evening’ - the pulse background is kinda creepy, laughing, screaming

  375. Debate continues, The Dark Side of the Town Hall does not. ♬ There is no dark side of the town hall really. Matter of fact its all dark. ♬

  376. Eclipse ♬ ends as McCain comments on environment. Nuclear power, or something like that.

  377. Obama describes his tax plan to ♪ Brain Damage ♪, then McCain plays up his maverick record to the same.

  378. McCain on nailing Jello to the wall as ♪Any Colour You Like ♪ begins (I’ll take Lime with vodka, in a dixie cup) then describes his tax plan

  379. Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words the poster bearer cried Listen son, said the man with the gun There’s room for you inside ♪

  380. McCain describes eliminating government departments by specifically solving defense spending problems to ♬ Us and Them ♬ Clinton-omics?

  381. Obama compares himself to JFK as ♬ Money ♬ winds down. Really? /that/ JFK? Really? Giving none away. ♬ ‘Giving none away.’ ♬

  382. As the sax solo winds gives way to guitar solo in ♬ Money ♬ McCain describes order of priorities. He’s really good at this. Gilmour I mean.

  383. Money ♬ and McCain’s rebuttal sync perfectly. “Let’s look at our records instead of rhetoric” “Money…root of all evil today”

  384. Obama makes promises of investment (with what $?) to Ms. Finch during mellow lull in ♬ The Great Gig in the Sky ♬

  385. McCain rebuttal backed by Clare Torry. Oohhh ‘The American workser are the best in the world’

  386. Obama rebuttal during solo refrain, nicely synced, contine through last verse of Time and end right as the song ends

  387. McCain on Obama’s cronies as the Gilmours’ solos in ♫ Time ♫ “Buy up these bad loans” wailing blues

  388. Obama “other folks” eh? Oh all of them that come across your desk? ♫ Time ♫ is revving up - clauses end in that droning low E

  389. Not You Tom” didn’t synch, then he pauses, then the plane wreck sound effect at the end of ♫ On The Run ♫, then McCain’s answer.

  390. McCain answers his first question to creepy synth pattern of ♫ On The Run ♫

  391. Obama answers his first question to the first stanza of breathe ♫ ‘don’t be afraid to care’ ‘look around, choose your own life’ ♫

  392. Awesome: They shook hands just as Breathe kicked in. IT WORKS!

  393. Is the music insynch with the debate?

  394. I’m watching tonight’s debate on mute with Dark Side of the Moon playing. I call it Dark Side of the Town Hall.

  395. Slinky at my desk: fun. Slinky at my desk with an empty styrofoam cup stuffed in one end: PEW PEW PEW fun

  396. You can’t spell ‘down’ without DOW

  397. Last day of work before I head to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival!

  398. Blasting a vinyl rip of 11th house after a long day http://is.gd/3D9A, so cheese but also so great. stfu this is the fourth wank solo! _\m/

  399. Blasting a vinyl rip of 11th house after a long day http://is.gd/3D9A, so cheese but also so great. stfu this is the fourth wank solo! _\m/

  400. In an era of ipods and xm radio, construction workers next door have stuck w/ a CD changer. Zep III, Skynard, ZZ-Top, and The Who. ALL DAY.

  401. IN GENERAL (not specific to where I work), This quarter’s financial reports will be post-crisis while last quarters were pre-. Expect FAIL

  402. @will_torres The fox will go to the henhouse to fix the gate; Please use newspaper personals for future comms. 1SWM 28yoa etc…

  403. Don’t get me started on Home Depot. Seems like I have a second home there this weekend.

  404. Very nice! i’ll have to drag our other cousins from canton over one day or weekend to hang out since we are all in a semi central area.

  405. You have 60 minute IPA??

  406. Anyone need anything from Home Depot?

  407. @electricfork It’s a ticking time-bomb in my basement. Beltway was picked clean, had no SNPA. 60min is too much for a session beer imo

  408. 1/2 barrel of 60 Minute IPA tapped, lines cleaned, finally grilled salmon & asparagus for dinner at 10. Exhausting day.

  409. 1/2 barrel of 60 Minute IPA tapped, lines cleaned, finally grilled salmon & asparagus for dinner at 10. Exhausting day.

  410. Cleaning kegerator lines in prep for a new keg pick-up tonight

  411. 11 hour-housework day; relocated LAN, new firewall, ran outlets in conduit for kegerator, patched mortar, wife cleaned EVERYTHING ELSE

  412. Relocating home network to basement rack, swapping pix for netscreen, networking the printer, reconnecting UPS w/ new battery, work, work

  413. Https://www.270towin.com/ It’s neat to run through from the US’s first election and note when new states pop up vs. how they vote

    270toWin - 2028 Presidential Election Interactive MapCreate your own forecast for the 2028 presidential election270toWin.com
  414. NB: Most sculptors get their marble and assignments from others, employ assistants, and live on castings of the same idea for years

  415. I have way more fun writing, coding, and designing via subtraction - my job title should be “Sculptor” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_sculpting

    Glossary of sculpting - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
  416. Did she really just ask ‘What is your biggest weakness?’: Perfectionist! Say perfectionist! ‘I just cant’ leave well enough alone Gwyn!’

  417. It’s not in the rules but Joe gets a social for that sly middle-finger ‘clearing his eye’ move. Stay classy Joe!

  418. Nuclear pronunciation: With so many actual faults, don’t get sidetracked by style. Also, Biden is a live-action Waldorf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_&_Waldorf

    Statler and Waldorf - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
  419. Nom nom martini olives #LosingVPDebateDrinkingGame

  420. The medium is the massage. Truth is the size of the flag pin, the attractiveness of the smile, the tone of voice. Facts are boring.

  421. Joe Biden strings words together like Porky Pig moonwalks

  422. I’m going to practice my patronizing false-excitement voice, if it’s anything like my false-Robert-Plant singing you are all doomed

  423. Keg empty, enjoying a dirty martini w/ VP debate game, worried I’ll run out of Gin and vermouth, only have a full bottle each. Cheers!

  424. Public Television: HD, full screen, no analyst chart-chunk, no animations

  425. Did she really just ask ‘What is your biggest weakness?’: Perfectionist! Say perfectionist! ‘I just cant’ leave well enough alone Gwyn!’

  426. It’s not in the rules but Joe gets a social for that sly middle-finger ‘clearing his eye’ move. Stay classy Joe!

  427. Nuclear pronunciation: With so many actual faults, don’t get sidetracked by style. Also, Biden is a live-action Waldorf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_&_Waldorf

    Statler and Waldorf - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
  428. Nom nom martini olives #LosingVPDebateDrinkingGame

  429. The medium is the massage. Truth is the size of the flag pin, the attractiveness of the smile, the tone of voice. Facts are boring.

  430. Joe Biden strings words together like Porky Pig moonwalks

  431. I’m going to practice my patronizing false-excitement voice, if it’s anything like my false-Robert-Plant singing you are all doomed

  432. Keg empty, enjoying a dirty martini w/ VP debate game, worried I’ll run out of Gin and vermouth, only have a full bottle each. Cheers!

  433. Public Television: HD, full screen, no analyst chart-chunk, no animations

  434. @commonwombat I haven’t blinked in the 40 minutes since you tapped me for B.S. '08 - bring on the cat jokes & @shmausen impersonations SNL!

  435. I’ve talked to people in Sweden and Israel today on the phone today. Quick somebody tap me to be their Vice Presidential nominee!

  436. Next time I’m a high school student playing in a rock band, we are totally going to cover Bubble Puppy’s ♬ Hot Smoke and Sassafrass ♬

  437. Sips tonight for every GOP ‘ya’ and Dem ‘change’. Chug for ‘in what respect’ stalling. Socials for eye-rolling. Call out sick on Friday.

  438. @thefrontrowe is to @BaltimoreMD as Clark Kent is to… Lois or Superman? I think Lois.

  439. @charmsec is halfway down the bar, look for the bald guy (@philip_daigle) and the figlet sign on our table

  440. @electricfork I will be at The Wharf Rat tonight for @charmsec 7 along with @philip_daigle, drinking your rounds

  441. I lucked into a bottle of my IPA that doesn’t taste like yeast, great stuff. The basement will be ready for brewing soon to replenish!

  442. I lucked into a bottle of my IPA that doesn’t taste like yeast, great stuff. The basement will be ready for brewing soon to replenish!

  443. Those-damn-kids ( http://is.gd/3iyd ) left ripped boxer shorts smeared with shit in my trash. The trash men left it with my empty trash can.

  444. Use of torture in interrogation is a stupid tactic of preemptive warfare, which is a popular strategy for failing states led my evil men

  445. Enjoying /Keb Darge And Cut Chemist Presents Lost And Found Rockabilly And Jump Blues/ https://www.amazon.com/Keb-Darge-Cut-Chemist-Present/dp/B000YYZPLQ Q. Tarantino would party like this

    Amazon.comamazon.com
  446. Hopefully it won’t ☁ rain for a while ☼

  447. Shop-vac’d 30+ gallons of rainwater out of the back stairwell, dumped it in the sump. Procrastinating on sealing the stairwell bricks: FAIL

  448. I’m forming a league of coffee, aspirin, and water while avoiding eye contact with my opponents (lights) #debate08

  449. Mail.app bug w/ multiple imap accounts: (# messages) count is only accurate for one account, not the combined displayed messages. Hrmph.

  450. I don’t trust anyone that counts to one with their thumb and two without their thumb.

  451. Ugly rainy weather, systems failing left and right, it’s time for some ♫ Court of The Crimson King ♫

  452. Never mind the car, my real treasure is in large positions in AIG insured Lehman brothers mortgage tranches

  453. Anyone else getting 503 after 503 from yum hitting the RHEL5 repositories for the past few days? Very frustrating.

  454. I hope in reflecting on the long list of my negative traits, you tell each other, "But that’s what makes perfect for his job/wife/friends!"

  455. We had it right in the 90s. Experimenting on a production personal site? You still need to put up ///under///construction/// signs I guess

  456. CL/MIS: I was sleeping because it was 3:42AM… you were a UPS beeping about a fucking dead battery… lets get you a new battery. Thanks!

  457. Home.craigslist.org/mis/

  458. Dad and my boss got me sick…

  459. Someone gave a small child car keys. Car alarm armed: BEEP! Repeat for 3 min at random until child finds PANIC button and triggers alarm

  460. Is the character escaping bug …'ing twitter caused by performance or security tweaking?

  461. Heres some beers!!

  462. Apologies to SMS followers, testing

  463. Ignore regional dialect, accent, language shift, and lay person vs. professional differences EXCEPT ‘nuclear’? Clap, Clap, Clap, FFS

  464. Dan Geer sounds kinda like James Randi, and even looks a little like him, only his beard is on up-side-down.

  465. Officemates are rocking to The Cult’s ‘Sun King’ & role-playing drinking some chillies and making The Entrance to Hammerjacks \m/ Ba …

  466. A bland knack for un-design? No, It’s negative space forcing the eye to uhh post–modern uhm, ism, er, look over there! runs

  467. Said/Means translation: “I don’t feel like I should have to ask” / “I feel you should read my mind and precog all desires and aggravations”

  468. Ten years ago, five hours of sleep would have been plenty!

  469. I love that my stolen-from-@zeldman browser hate survives 2001 in archives, while the design doesn’t, http://web.archive.org/web/20010404064234/24.23.47.111/ why archive css?

    Grant's Playground - main spyweb.archive.org
  470. I think I could teach night school.

  471. Lists full of French spaced broken complete sentences with all definite and indefinite articles removed ‘for brevity’. ☹ Fail.

  472. <ul><li>French spaced broken complete sentences with all definite and indefinite articles removed ‘for brevity’.</li&gt …

  473. <ul><li>Broken Complete Sentence with all definite and indefinite articles removed ‘for brevity’.  Again. &nb …

  474. The author of the book I’m reading keeps using ‘bricks-and-mortar’ instead of ‘brick and mortar’ and it is driving me nuts arrrrr

  475. I need to clean my lines, all this demo work is making my SNPA taste like 100 year old bricks

  476. Poly’d the bathroom exposed brick, redid the entire storage room shelving; coming together nicely - too bad I have homework tonight 😦

  477. Fireworks over Fort McHenry - Defender’s Day was last weekend so I’m confused. Nice roof view while I grill salmon & asparagus

  478. At the Westminster wine festival with wife, Sanda, and the in-laws instead of working on The Basement or The Server; need a glass sling

  479. OH my Grandmother-in-law on medecine: “So my friend, who is a /democrat/ told me to go see this dark skinned fellow, and…”

  480. Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! CORED AS USUALLY

  481. New twitter UI, serif italics in sans copy is a sign of excellent attention to detail, some of the nav tab counts are missing though

  482. Sounds good to me. was actually over there last night at chris and dave’s place. we’ll have to let you know next time we’re hanging out.

  483. Updated DNS to move my stuff from a colo BSD box to a Fedora VM in Amazon’s s3 cloud, Yay! insert NO CARRIER joke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NO_CARRIER

    NO CARRIER - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
  484. Too bad they can’t spell Grandma’s name right…

  485. Wow, and I thought twitter had the market cornered: http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/

  486. Dude i didn’t even know that quilt was that significant.

    in other news, how are you doing? still living in the canton area?

  487. My grandparents are screwing up my Google vanity, I’m not the only result for “Grant Stavely” anymore! http://is.gd/2Ntb

  488. RT cnbc: MidAmerican Energy to Buy Constellation Energy for $4.7 Billion, or $26.50 A Share. (story developing)

  489. I’m not writing a paper at the last minute, the last minute isn’t for a few hours!

  490. It’s OK guys, I made a steampunk economy we can use instead, it’s totally rad.

  491. Thinking about getting a high and tight. Or a just number 4 fade. Today. Either way, eek halp!

  492. Gilmour: …all the greatest Pink Floyd moments are the ones where he is in full flow. No-one can replace Richard Wright.

  493. AIG’s one time $85 billion loan, put in perspective by federal budget fiscal spending (see: discretionary) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget,_2008 - Yowza

    2008 United States federal budget - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
  494. Security madlib: Amazing, people still! ___ after weaknesses in ___. Buy ____ OTS solution! virtual-postitnotes-buzz-tank-password-hacker!

  495. Https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/09/top-ten-security-issues-guide/ Ars “Top 10 enterprise security pitfalls” contains at least 10 pieces of terrible, terrible advice

    Ten enterprise security pitfalls, and how to avoid themWith the threat of malware constantly on the rise, Ars presents you with one …Ars Technica
  496. Monday night football: GFY! 20 minutes to find a parking spot after school - even the Rite Aide lot was crammed, all semester!?

  497. Found a stranger in the Alps, worried about the guy across the street’s Corvette 😦

  498. Found a stranger in the Alps, worried about my car now 😦

  499. OK it was cute for a while but SMB1_mario_breaking_bricks.wav can’t stay my terminal bell anymore, back to visual only

  500. Verbing words is lame, but nouning verbs with and wrapping them in dumber verbs is worse. delete delete

  501. I’m crazy like a fox! I just ordered a success kit, nice knowing you SUCKERS!

  502. Finally watching the full Palin v Gibson 1v1DM. Lighting, editing, and interviewee are all amateur

  503. Just learned that my wife’s uncle goes to the same church as Palin; this is the same uncle we’ve always considered kinda nutso born-again 😦

  504. Anyone using a sound bar system for home theater? How is it? I don’t want to spend $3K on SVS or AV123 speakers, but I really want them 😦

  505. Walkiing up Connecticut Ave noticing all the black chewing gum on the ground, is DC the capitol of blackjack gum too?

  506. Watching Tron - I can’t get over The Dude arguing with Captain Sheridan over the judge’s niece from Caddyshack

  507. Oh shit, impulse buying at IKEA - the 2009 stuff is out and I’m about to fill a second bag solving problems I didn’t know I had

  508. There is a big flea market today at Patterson Park by the Pagoda, lots of baby gear I’m told (for my pregnant followers, not going myself)

  509. When I am explaining something technical and I use the word ‘basically’, pretend I said “here is the part I don’t know anything about”

  510. The guitar solo from Tap’s ‘Christmas With The Devil’ is today’s theme music. One note + tremolo-vibrato for 8 measures! \m/.

  511. Favorite excuse overheard in class for having IT Professional as a career goal: “I was a CS major but I wasn’t doing very well so here I am”

  512. Overheard at work: “If you could insert meaningless task, that would be great, thanks” with no sense of irony or shame

  513. Christopher Buckley on XMPR with Bob Edwards this morning - great stuff, tune in if you can

  514. I say this every four years but, if they win, at least SNL will be funny again

  515. Just presented in front of the class with a young student: THC is scary stuff folks

  516. The redirects on UMBC’s webauth put ff3 into a nasty loop of “are you sure?” - Every HIG’s wet dream

  517. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BAM@electricfork NEVER FORGET

  518. RT @gruber Here’s the new URL for the Ebert piece on Palin: http://xrl.us/oqwao

  519. Sip coffee; inhale; coffee in lungs; cough; coffee in sinuses; gag; cough; sniffle; coffee in lungs again; accept defeat; sip coffee :||

  520. God said, “Let there be a Magnetic Lasso Tool”; and there was a Magnetic Lasso Tool. And God saw the Magnetic Lasso Tool, and it was good.

  521. The genius sidebar show/hide widget is MMN. Apple should have just bought or integrated with last.fm.

  522. Diebold excuses - budget, ease of use for elderly pole workers, security wasn’t a design req, it’s really tricky, unfair reviews, etc

  523. How the state of MD protects us from Avi Ruben: Tamper Tape (and in 2010, paper ballots)

  524. Working returns SearchResEntry, broken returns SearchResDone; SRD doesn’t work - nss/pam doesn’t rebind w/ supplied creds like SRE Why not?

  525. Troubleshooting nss, pam, and ldap - identical configurations, different data on the wire, one ignores pam_filter amongst other things arg!

  526. Switched the xbmc over to Aeon this weekend and am very impressed - http://www.aeonproject.com/

  527. I totally don’t get this football meme, is there a funny youtube video I missed or somerthing?

  528. I need a dinner that will cover up the smell of the polish sausage, peppers, and sauerkraut I had for first and second lunches #ukranianfest

  529. Sun and Beer induced weekend naps are why weekends should be three days long

  530. Enjoying an Obolon Premium Ukranian generic lager - Cheers!

  531. I need blank dvdrws to fix my xbmc but I don’t want to melt the block and a half to Rite Aid so I’m SOL (ffs with the acronyms already)

  532. Don’t turn around and give the old lady in front of the house calling The Boy a pretty kitty through the screen a heart attack, don’t turn…

  533. Rabble rabble rabble rabble

  534. Fact: Republicans nominated 6/8 of the current Supreme Court.

  535. Kool and the Gang’s Celebrate! I hope they do the electric slide next! boogie-woogie-woogie

  536. Sarah Palin leaves the seat up

  537. Just realized that I was the source of the ink spots all around me from shaking my pilot varsity fountain pen around. Now my hand is blue

  538. Also, #miranda_rights lol right guys? usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa

  539. In 2018 when the bridge to nowhere is a Trivia Pursuit question I’ll totally remember who the GOP VP candidate from '08 was. Pie Piece!

  540. I’m from the DC area and lived there for a few years, does that make me elite? If so, does that make me 1337? if so does that make me, etc.

  541. Spelled out my company name out on phone support - guessing her CRM app doen’t have AJAX live suggestions, DOS and OS/2 were funny like that

  542. Just installed a window unit for the bedroom, I do not trust these brackets at all

  543. Faux media scandals don’t pwn campaigns, campaigns pwn campaigns (am I doing this right?)

  544. Holy shit this flag thing never ends

  545. Oh holy day, @will_torres brought me a pound of Brach*s Candy Corn. I love this time of year!

  546. Trivia: WILHELM SCREAM: When I woke up this morning to the boy meowing outside the bedroom for a straight 30 minutes just for head-butts.

  547. Trivia: WILHELM SCREAM: When I woke up this morning to the boy meowing outside the bedroom for a straight 30 minutes just to for head-butts.

  548. When was the last time you backed up your data?

  549. /team spectator while wife and friend assemble Ikea flatpack - years of payback but nothing on ‘the grill assembly of 2007’ fiasco

  550. I don’t understand how tapped morphed to ‘select as VP running mate’, I liked the old definition 😭

  551. Jerry is fucked. Enjoy the peanut butter last meal!

  552. Playing Tom hunting for Jerry @ the condo - I’m cheating with traps though, none of this running in place and slamming my face into walls

  553. I’ll admit it, got excited about Palin a bit http://xrl.us/oot53 “McCain? Well, he’s…he’s, ah…probably pining for the fjords.”

  554. Screen and portupgrade -a like a fly on shit, white on rice, etc

  555. It’s only the first day of class and I’m already missing out on a happy hour w/ @charmsec, @electricfork, etc. Shit.

  556. Drywall dust throughout the house is alarming; I’ve sent paw prints to the FBI because MY cats never walk on the stove, fridge, leather, etc

  557. McAfee copyedited their super-edgy infosec Geek Pride Parade sales pitch a bit. Beating > pummeling

  558. Had to check the trashcan to confirm: I’ve only had three cups of coffee today, and all before getting to the office. Time to 2-fist some

  559. Project Management training should include a few survey level courses in Dentistry, because a lot of it is like pulling teeth

  560. I need rec’s on an IR repeater system - https://www.amazon.com/Buffalo-IR-100-Receiver-Power-Supply/dp/B0002M5NNA/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1219783408&sr=8-26 Buffalo’s seems perfect (modular, cost effective) but as a network geek, I’m …

    Amazon.comamazon.com
  561. Lights in the basement went up last night http://xrl.us/oom3f (if the power goes out in SE Baltimore tonight, um, not it.)

  562. For want of the right size romex connector, I didn’t kablammo my house last night adding the two new 20 amp circuits to the circuit breaker

  563. Factory automobile warranty guys should really get on this twitter thing, they could make serious cash w/ social media marketing #assholes

  564. Soundtrack to my Tuesday: MC Building Peaks - Orinoco Flow

  565. Worked on electrical last night until 1:30AM with Ken - all alien orb transformers are mounted, 3-way switched working, 1/7 lights done!

  566. Eek, my linkedin profile is only 90% complete, what will Mom think!?

  567. McHamletbook is excellent - http://xrl.us/om7pr zombies and pokes and etc

  568. On my sixty-third or sixty-fourth cup of coffee today

  569. In Soviet Russia, overlords welcome YOUR slashdot effect! (Score 1: Troll)

  570. Also newsflash: nigiri is not sashimi, I always say it wrong

  571. My favorite Buzzcocks song is Brickbreaker Addict, er

  572. Turning the investigators into shell scripts, bbl

  573. @martysnarf micro-blogging is not arrogance, it’s just mostly tacky.

  574. @ikea picking out basement storage and brewing kitchen hardware

  575. I… Hate… Low… Entropy… DNS… Tranaction ID’s… B’YAH!

  576. You know what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like this? Patch your DNS servers.

  577. Cogito ergo patch

  578. Solid Steel podcast #71 is driving Will don’t-mind-if-I-dooooo crazy. I ❤️ Coldcut.

  579. I wonder when @philip_daigle is picking me up from the VW dealership?

  580. DNS is tricky

    A possible explanation of the DNS vulnerability got posted on Matasano Chargen, an excellent infosec blog. This is neat because Matasano’s principle, Tom, has already gotten the entire story from Dan—he knows all the details we don’t. It was written well enough, and Tom’s credibility is high enough, to assume it was a draft he had ready to fire off as soon as the exploit was public on the sixth.

    It was pulled very quickly. I have a copy in my Google Reader cache.

    I thought it was a bad guess, but the retraction and the dailydave thread that it sourced getting closed (not uncommon there) have me curious. Why publish a thought experiment without captures proving it? Also, I think the post was from an intern’s account on the blog. Oops.

    Then Dan Kaminsky twittered:

    “DNS bug is public. You need to patch, or switch to opendns, RIGHT NOW. Could”

    And blogged…

    Patch. Today. Now. Yes, stay late. Yes, forward to OpenDNS if you have to. (They’re ready for your traffic.) Thank you to the many of you who already have.

    Which has me (and many others) convinced that this is legit and we might start hearing about attempts. Did Dan’s hype backfire?

    Richard is right, the NAT question is also interesting (and why I have been asking for architecture diagrams lately)

    This will be trivial to detect on the wire with traditional IDS/IPS.

    I’d like proof of the ‘in-bailiwick’ premise of the last paragraph.
    Dan probably has something better than this but who knows?

    This has already won a pwnie, excellent.

  581. Showing up early for 1PM meetings is mostly a waste of time… Mostly

  582. Beach volleyball tonight, I will be playing on one leg

  583. Tapas was nice, limping four blocks home and heading for the rooftop

  584. Off to the condo to do some repairs!

  585. Pazo rocks! IMO, Tapa Teatro has slightly better food, but the place itself can’t be beat. Very jealous.

  586. I’ve been going to this school for seven and a half years, I’m no dummy.

  587. I’ve LITERALLY got the mayor breathing down my neck… it’s nevada dot org backslash…

  588. Twitterific needs vi key bindings

  589. Philip thinks diet cherry chocolate ANYTHING sounds gross.

  590. Mmm post-party french bread -> french toast.

  591. B00bz

  592. Roof speakers fixed, staple-shorted in multiple places. I’m an idiot.

  593. Your mother sounds like the Greaseman

  594. Everyone is suggesting I call a doctor, then I show them my foot. Stairs: 1, Grant: 0

  595. Http://tinyurl.com/63cmnw With lyrics like these, I don’t need something something

  596. Amanda: Shit! I took the ice cream out an hour ago! runs

  597. Rocking to Les Paul’s “Tennessee Waltz” is not unlike sleeping to Iron Maiden

  598. Amanda: Hey, look! I have paint in my belly-button!

  599. Rcn, please foward zosl@erols.com to me again so that I can reclaim my 1337 ICQ UIN, kthxbye

  600. Sidewall ruined, made it to the office on my spare

  601. 2:30AM whining-cat wake-up calls can’t be beat!

  602. 43rd Law of Wiring: When wire-strippers are lost, fingernails will be broken

  603. Inbox down to ~20 items, yay!

  604. So I’ve got to come check out this house and home brewery of yours… I know that you and Amanda have every weekend filled until the end of time!

  605. Baltimore! Waiting on our bags after SD to SFO to Vegas to BWI, fingers crossed

  606. Wife after two double g&t’s: Don’t confuse me with the facts! stumble

  607. At Sushi Nippon in San Diego after 12 hours of the US Open, sunburned and sleepy

  608. I must apologize for wimp lo, we have trained him wrong, on purpose…

  609. Heading up to LA today, hoping to find a good bowl of pho

  610. My phone battery is so dead that it can’t turn on enough to charge itself. Argh.

  611. Yikes, Comcast filtering in Baltimore is noticeably less evil

  612. Someone in my office is using the DC Metro

  613. My cat ‘The Boy’ is sneezing really strangely - I think he’s allergic to Sandra

  614. Gartner Security Summit is next week and I don’t have a ticket this year hint

  615. @GrantWalker: You obviously don’t shampoo. http://xrl.us/bk545

  616. @expertSexchange.com: get out of my google results you suck

  617. In Frederick getting beer for the weekend, then on to the campsite.

  618. Good to hear man! I finally realized I needed to finish school too…not doing anything with it but you know…it’s always good to finish things. Have you ever seen that SNL skit with Jimmy Fallen as the computer IT guy, Nick Burns…?..saw it the other day and it reminded me of you (no offense) good luck finishing school!

  619. Long time man…looks like it’s going well, glad to see you’re still f’in with the computers…still talk to Erk?

  620. @will_torre good question. i can make it to foot in mouth in 12 parsecs!

  621. Foot-in-mouth half-life when talking to strangers: 6 hours.

  622. Wears prada

  623. I’m in Marshville, NC for the weekend!

  624. CharmSec at the inner-harbor Wharf Rat tonight!

  625. obs

    Grant: it needs to be updated obviously

    Grant: hehe

    Sandra: obs

    Grant: obs?

    Sandra: short for obviously

    Grant: obviously.

    Right.

  626. The kegerator is empty. Oh dear.

  627. Cutting DNS kite strings

    Verisign’s SiteMinder service was an abuse of their role and broke the internet.

    But I would pay a DNS forwarder to redirect malware domains faster than they can be kited.

    Someone give malwaredomains.com some cash. Host it in Amazon’s cloud, follow Cloudmark and give away content while selling integration software to Enterprises.

    Invest in good IP space, something as memorable as 4.2.2.x

    Google and Cisco are possible vendors, I predict Google will think of this first. They are naturally interested in the metadata. Right now they get your search terms, e-mail, IM, map addresses, and more – why wouldn’t they want to know every single domain name you resolve in real time?

  628. NBC, protip for you: don’t allow

  629. Was dissapointed by the google results for “urban food log”

  630. I’ve always wanted you to write that to me. You saucy devil, you.

  631. Solved problems, and weekend reading

    My neighbor and I were victims of the ultimate network attack.

    I was offline all weekend.

    So first I finished Dan Geer’s Economics and Strategies of Data Security. Whoa. I bought it based on Richard Bejtlich’s review. My copy was large-type; I’m not sure if that is standard. I already lent it out to my supervisor and asked him to to pass it up to our director when he’s finished.

    Then I read The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. I’m also mid-way through Bruce Tognazzini’s Tog on Interface, but I actually finished The Design of Everyday Things cover to cover this weekend – I had no internet or television. I still find user-centered interface concepts important and thanks to the efforts of Tog, Norman, and dare I say it, Neilson, most shops get it. But I don’t find it interesting anymore. Actually, I never found Neilson interesting, but Tog and Norman’s books, while both excellent, have become a bit dated.


    It reminds me of when I finally read esr’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar a few years ago. I am reading these foundational works after they’ve been adopted and championed by thousands of other people. So many of them were successful that they created the world argued for in the text.

    Well, shit!

    Now the books aren’t as interesting!

    These core, often cited works have become history books! User centered design eh? No shit! Open Source is really going to take off eh? Do you think?

    As with catb, I devoured The Design of Everyday Things in an evening and a half.

    Interesting is like “nice” or “cool”. It’s self-defined and weak at that, and always better replaced by actual data, but bear with me. Lately I’ve been unfairly categorizing non-interesting efforts as “Solved Problems”.

    Antivirus? Oh that’s a Solved Problem. Solved so poorly yet paradoxically, adequately, and necessarily, that I don’t find it interesting at all. Firewalls? Solved Problem. User centered design? Solved Problem. Well, OK maybe the implementations aren’t demonstrations of solved problems but the knowledge is out there.

    It’s pretty stupid of me, but I’m trying to figure out why I find what I do find interesting to be interesting, and there is a lot of noise out there. Wasting time polishing solved problems is pretty stupid. It rots the mind.

    “Pretty Stupid” was my previous internal trite label for non-interesting efforts. Solved Problem is better than Pretty Stupid isn’t it?

    After the ~design~ history book I went back to finish the last 20 pages of Brave New War by John Robb, which I borrowed from Ben a few months ago. Brave New War is so interesting I can’t read it very quickly – I keep putting it down to think, or to do something less intense.

    Tonight my plan was to finish Brave New War so that I could return it to Ben, but I got an itch to check on the cable line behind my house. 72 hours without the web makes me something something. When I pulled on the line that runs from the pole in the alley behind my house over to my house, I discovered why my cable modem RECEIVE light had been blinking over and over.

    A young vandal had cut the coax running down the back of my house in the alley in two places, with what looks to be dull lineman’s pliers.

    It’s fun to make very specific guesses based on little evidence, Sherlock Holmes style. In this case the wire was definitely cut, not snagged or ripped because it the sheathing was still compressed. And I posit the cut was made with dull pliers because the sheathing wasn’t cut completely – somebody borrowed the pliers from dad’s toolbox.

    The lines were cut Friday, and I actually checked for a physical attack Saturday, but the cuts were cleverly placed behind my gutter downspout.

    I have the tools and hardware to terminate coax, so I fixed it.

    How am I ever going to finish Brave New War now, when I’ve got Twitter and Facebook and Google Reader!?

  632. Oooh! So what did the number turn out to be?

  633. Discovered: 1800-226-2277 is NOT 1800-Comcast

  634. Is twittering: Argh, new battery time probably: http://tinyurl.com/6kak8

  635. Is twittering: Tequila, you’re my only friend…

  636. CharmSec

    Ben is dropping this invite in various places:

    CharmSec

    What
    An informal meetup of infosec folks

    When
    Wednesday May 14th, 7:00pm

    Where
    The Wharf Rat @ Camden Yards
    Bar side – look for geeky looking folks in black shirts

    Why
    Talk security with people who aren’t there just to get 3 CPE points!

    I’ll be attending, and we already have a few committed guests so that it won’t just be Ben and I enjoying Oliver Ales. We spend all day in front of four or five monitors in small rooms with no windows interacting with the folks in the cubes around us over instant messenger. It’ll be like that only with beer, and a much much better screen.

    I stopped using a (quake) handle years ago, but we don’t expect everyone there to talk openly about where they work or what they do. For future meetups, check the official CharmSec page.

    Join us!

  637. Is twittering: Steampunk is not interesting. Stop it!

  638. SANS GIAC GCFA

    I am a “Certified IT Professional”, as of this morning. Just like you hear about on the radio advertisements! Yikes.

    I’m on on the list and they published my 83% score on the test to become a SANS Certified Forensics Analyst.

    I took the class six months ago and procrastinated on taking the test. I shouldn’t have because the test was a new version and covered new information not in my books – I got a 90% on the last practice test I took. =/

    Do certifications matter?

    Well it depends, and because it depends, the entire debate is not that interesting to me. But, I’m certified now, so I have to confront it.

    Does my certification matter? I dig that it validates that I can pass an open book, multiple-choice four hour exam in about an hour and forty minutes. I also dig that potential future people looking at my qualifications might give it some value.

    Does it mean anything else? Will I add it to my e-mail signature and business cards?

    Not really, and no.

  639. Wants to sell his vox AD15VT and get a VOX DA5

  640. Hans Reiser: Guilty

    The Wired article concludes…

    From his seat at the defense table, Reiser seemed to offer supporting evidence for that so-called “geek defense” in the form of his own actions, frequently quarreling with his attorney, and interrupting DuBois’ cross-examination. In January, Judge Goodman threatened to bar Reiser from his own trial. “I’m not sure whether you’re doing this on purpose to screw up the process or it’s just part of your nature,” the judge said outside the presence of the jury. “I’m tired of you disrupting the courtroom.”

    DuBois made little effort to hide his frustration with his client. The biggest bone of contention was Reiser’s insistence on taking the stand himself — a move that may have been Reiser’s undoing.

    On many of Reiser’s 11 days on the stand, jurors were seen shaking their heads in disbelief, laughing to themselves and wearing skeptical looks.

    Ok, I’m not one to hold a grudge but quoting myself from six years ago:

    Welp, reiserfs has officially decieved me.

     Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root filesystem on 03:07
    
    reiserfsck —rebuild-tree /dev/hda7
    [UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 110!
    [UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 111!
    [UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 112!
    [UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 113!
    [UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 114!   `

    It then makes it to about 133 before aborting and dying. Good times indeed.

    For those not in the know, that means, I just lost my / linux partition with all of my data on it. Suck suck suck.

    Edit: No seriously—this fucking sucks. hard. =/

    Six Months Later

    advice: Do not use reiserfs.

    ben: told you cough

  641. Logging incident handler activity on the console

    During incident handling, time is precious. I try to make myself take notes and communicate about the incident over logged channels like e-mail and IM - to the point that I think some team members have rules specifically for e-mail from me.

    The detailed timelines that can be reconstructed from these notes are crucial when preparing post-mortem documents!

    I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches Script the process wherever possible.

    — Alice Roosevelt Longworth (and Grant Stavely)

    Initially, I thought bash history could help.

    # Bash settings
    export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%s "
    export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
    export HISTFILESIZE="9999999"

    But what about the command output? There is a better way:

    Firstly, and this is something that took getting used to, set up a fancy shell prompt to provide the log with context and time stamping:

    --(grant@sensor)-(1/pts/1)-(17:32:33-UTC/28-Apr-08)--
    --($:/nsm/)-

    Gross! A two-line shell prompt! Trust me, it’s useful.

    Then just add to your shell start-up:

    # start script to log everything now!
    exec /usr/bin/script -f /nsm/var/handlerlog/$USER.shell_log.` date +'%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S' `.$$

    Script will then log everything that prints to the console with the prompt providing context.

  642. May Know People (thanks for the permission facebook)

  643. Has a hammer, and everything is a nail.

  644. Is glad his face didn’t actually get stuck that way

  645. Is dying: Butters: ow. that hurt my brains.

  646. Yaaaayyy for running 😃

  647. Jogged today, and nobody was chasing him. Zounds.

  648. 's top music, in order of how top it is: R&b, Rap, Rock, Sublime (!), and Country! OMG

  649. Is a senior at UMBC again, yikes.

  650. Hahahaha…thanks

  651. Business Meetings

    Frustrated by distracted workers so plugged in that they tune out in the middle of business meetings, a growing number of companies are going “topless,” as in no laptops allowed. Also banned from some conference rooms: BlackBerrys, iPhones and other personal devices on which so many have come to depend…

    But as laptops have gotten lighter and smart-phones even smarter, people have discovered a handy diversion, making more eye contact these days with their screens than one another. The practice became so pervasive that Todd Wilkens turned to his company blog to wage his “personal war against CrackBerry…”

    His San Francisco design firm, Adaptive Path, now strongly encourages everyone to leave their laptops at their desks. His colleague, Dan Saffer, coined the term “topless” as in “laptop-less.” Also booted are mobile and smart-phones, which must be stowed on a counter or in a box during meetings. It took some convincing, but soon people began connecting with one another rather than with their computers, Wilkens said.

    “All of our meetings got a lot more productive,” he said.

    Merlin Mann likes the idea.

    It stinks. It of course is not being proffered as the sole solution to ‘the meeting problem’, but I don’t even consider it a close runner-up.

    My Straw Man

    cue birds shining, sun chirping

    The meeting lead or a delegate has arrived before anyone else and prepared the room, ensuring there is appropriate seating, refreshments, and a printed agenda. The attendees all arrive on time, having had beautiful stress and distraction free mornings leading up to the meeting. All attendees have been preparing for the meeting in the shower or during the commute and are ready to brainstorm, compromise, and provide insights from their unique perspectives. The meeting lead or a delegate has a history of taking excellent notes and can be counted on to send next-actions to all attendees.

    The actual meeting happens and is hugely successful! The meeting strays once or twice from the established goal when a few ideas are discussed that provide unintended benefits to support personnel or secondary goals. Everyone compromises, gives permission, understands, is motivated, is ready to kick off, or buy, or whatever the goal of the meeting was. The meeting ends before its established hard stop.

    Reality

    The people that are usually early to meetings show up early and wait the five minutes they are accustomed to waiting for everyone else to arrive. A percentage of attendees are late due to random things more important to them than the meeting. A percentage of the attendees have little more than token interest in the goal of the meeting. A few people will take bad notes, a few will take no notes, a few will take down what they think are their own next actions, a few will accept more than they have bandwidth to actually finish in time, and so on. No one knows who scheduled the meeting for 3:30PM on a Friday but everyone agrees silently to murder that person if their identity is revealed.

    The meeting will not start on time because the early folks will be chatting about their personal lives or other work related stuff and the late folks will be explaining why they are late. The people that think they avoided any of the above pitfalls will silently begrudge the attendees that didn’t. The actual meeting begins and is rife with communication problems. One attendee spaces out due to family problems, another due to biological problems, a third because it is more fun than the meeting. One attendee keeps grinding the same axe, tangents fail to get redirected. One of the two people that conferenced into the meeting fills the room with barking dogs every time he unmutes, the other keeps saying “what”? when asked questions. Some people fiddle with their laptops and smartphones. The meeting will stop at the hard stop because people absolutely can’t stay later, or it will run late.

    …and after the meeting

    The people that were on time will blame the lack of progress partly on the late folks (and they’ll be right). The late folks will blame the lack of progress on their distractions (and they’ll be right). The percentage of attendees with no more than token interest in the meeting goals will forget they wasted their time (and they’ll be right to do so). The note takers will be amazed anyone does anything without taking such great notes, the non-note takers will wait for someone to ask them for a deliverable so that they can handle it, and the overloaded folks will do whatever they do that isn’t learning to be less overloaded.

    Obviously the doodling is the problem. And the chairs in the room that allowed people to be so slouchy and doodly. And the cell phones and laptops. And the fidgeting. Why, I can see you now, skimming this and IM’ing someone else, and fidgeting with your left foot at that thing under your desk. Why in my day, meetings were productive and engaging!

  652. Has an appointment at 6:30 today to get a haircut

  653. Is 16" on-center

  654. Is good with a jackhammer

  655. Is considering a buzz cut tomorrow

  656. Is using his credit card

  657. Is on kegerator duty

  658. Shmoocon 2008

    I’m just returning to work after Shmoocon 2008 – I took Monday off to recover and catch up on sleep.

    It seemed like the presenters this year were asked for only overview level subject matter. The talks were relaxed from past year’s research findings – they were more open ended brainstorms and predictions on the implications of known concepts. I’m still glad I went and will be back next year, maybe it was just a slow year for research.

    Friday

    David Smith’s password analysis talk was really neat. Rss subscribed!

    Deviant returned to lock picking after last years gun-nut panel (sorry, not my bag) masked as a physical security panel, and it appealed to everyone I was with. I would have skipped it if it wasn’t a main track talk even though Deviant is a great presenter.

    The Gringo Challenge was a great idea that didn’t seem to be given enough attention. I would have preferred vendors in the room where the lock picking stuff was and Deviant’s booth in the main hall with an announcer lining up folks to run through the challenge, all recorded on video. The bloopers would have been great!

    Saturday

    I underestimated the hotel black-out curtains and missed the morning talk I wanted to see Saturday.

    G. Mark‘s A Hacker Looks Past 50 wasn’t a talk I’d planned to attend after really enjoying his talk last year and expecting a repeat as the title hadn’t changed. I obviously don’t know G. Mark. I was in the room for Aaron Higbee and Jaime Fuentes talk on ISP filtering – a brainstorm and what-if session that I did enjoy, and stuck around to see if G. Mark would be telling the same stories again. I couldn’t detect any repeats that weren’t framing a new anecdote. G. Mark has a brilliant literary knack for relating life’s anecdotes to a greater theme, but not without a bit of tangential confusion. Also, someone needs to help him re-do his website! I’d gladly assist – the main nav has two blank pages and a 404, and it is all outdated and full of spacer gifs.

    I have to call out the heckler he had. G. Mark was giving away a lot of crap as he usually does, by ticket number. He read a ticket number for an NSA shot glass and a woman behind me was the winner. She didn’t seem too excited that she’d won the shot glass so G. Mark asked “Do you drink?”.

    The crazy lady two seats over from me annoyed.

    “Did you ask her that because she’s female or because she’s asian?”

    Silence.

    “I asked her that because she didn’t seem to want the shot glass.”

    Anyway…

    After a long lunch I checked out Simple Nomad’s crypto chat. A lot of slide-reading, but the content was excellent, if somewhat tinfoil. I expected no less.

    While looking back, I really enjoyed these talks, I was bummed overall and pining for previous years. I was with a large group and there was always someone to skip an hour with, so I didn’t force myself to sit through any less interesting titled presentations. My loss, I’m sure. Every time I was in heading to skip a talk and get a beer it seemed like Shmoo guys were doing the same. Laurels?

    Sunday

    I missed the E-discovery talk that I wanted to see Sunday morning for the only Windows Vista focused talk; Dan Griffin’s Hacking Windows Vista Security. Too many infosec folks stand behind Unix superiority like it is 1999 still (myself included) while Microsoft has really gotten their act together. When I found myself arguing bash over Powershell a few months back having only been exposed to a Monad Ars Technica article I realized I had my head in the sand about Vista. Dan’s talk was great and I would have loved more like it! What is Server 2008 bringing that I can’t do now? What is Vista and Powershell bringing to forensics? Pwning? Nobody at ShmooCon was talking about it.

    Atlas’s Vtrace talk was over my head but I mostly stuck it out. I didn’t have to keep up with the debugging techniques to keep up with the vulnerability research implications!

    I went to RenderMan‘s talk before the closing and he enumerated the how each of us are vulnerable every day because of our RFID, bluetooth, 802.11, and IR wireless devices. The talk was a nice overview but pretty snarky. A generic salesman isn’t an idiot for leaving his bluetooth and 802.11 on and killing his own batteries when the vendors make that the default or easy path. Hackers blaming the victim again?

    Toby Kohlenberg, after years of being the annoying pedant, had great timing at the closing panel discussion. After 20 minutes of Bruce Potter, Simple Nomad, Johnny Long, Rick Dakan, and one mystery person (the website isn’t updated yet) rapping about what the word Hacker means, I was starting to feel like we were in my sophomore Art classes having the “What Is Art?” talk. The closing thoughts were a plea to all of us to do good with our infosec skills, in some way. On our way home, Ben and I talked about this as a diversion to me complaining about the con (and to help stay awake!). More later when we think of anything to actually do.

    Now I just need to go submit all this feedback to the Shmoo folks. I agree with Ben’s submitted feeback. 2006 was my favorite ShmooCon. It isn’t fair to complain and not submit feedback!

  659. Syn Phishus

    I have nice things to say about the rest of the con.

    Baked not Fired: Performing an Unauthorized Phishing Awareness Exercise
    Syn Phishus

    This talk will illustrate how, without getting fired, to perform an unauthorized internal phishing exercise within a large corporation to raise security awareness and demonstrate why processes need to change. The phishing attack was orchestrated to allow incidence response to quickly determine the author and support the forensic investigation that followed. Phishing is easy; this is how to stand up and rock the boat hard while remaining on board.

    Phishing is easy to do. An insider Anyone can perfect the timing, presentation, and content enough to fool the people in the cubes on either side of you. But that doesn’t prove anything. It is a basic violation of the simple trust we all place in e-mail and the only things keeping you smart folks from falling for it is how poorly it is usually done, and your tinfoil hats.

    Public research suggests that it is hard to pin down the percentage of recipients that will download and execute malware delivered to look like corporate communications but it is somewhere between 5% and 30%. If I was in corporate communications I would be disheartened – that is the same cohort that actually skims corporate communications.

    That this threat has been around long enough to earn it’s own cutesy-hacker-name when it is just standard fraud is a great bullet point in the why-column for the usual controls (antivirus, nac, filtering, etc…), comprehensive network security monitoring, and logging absolutely everything.

    Presenting these findings to management might require some writing and maybe the patience to dump the data into a power point slide. A rogue drill of the incident response team isn’t a bad idea either. A planned drill of other business units with management buy-in and CSIRT awareness might even be nice validation of corporate communication plans asking users to report attacks (note: not to determine the threat / risk).

    A rogue drill of other business units is a terrible idea. A poorly executed rogue drill of other business units (Syn accidentally cc’d a large distribution list) due to poor planning is inexcusable.

    Syn Phishus got a formal reprimand for it.

    He then recommended that corporate communications in the future be digitally signed. He didn’t go on to explain how the infrastructure and training required to implement a signed communications initiative actually aligns with the poorly demonstrated unquantified risk. And, he didn’t review other existing controls that help mitigate it. And he didn’t discuss what would happen if his fix actually worked and the threat morphed to social websites, IM, continuing to use e-mail phishing but spoofing vendors instead of the company, and so on. Syn acknowledged that the company had a corporate communications initiative to spread awareness of the threat, but didn’t attempt to quantify its effectiveness. So back to pgp’ing everything.

    What percentage of recipients of an incorrectly-digitally signed message would still download and execute malware? HTTPS is such a great success that no one would ever ignore a poorly signed certificate, so he had no reason to discuss it. Right?

    I have too much respect for Shmoocon to heckle a presenter but had I gotten a microphone, I would have asked:

    “Where are your brains? In your ass!”

  660. Wants to be like syn phishus

  661. Wants to be like syn vicious

  662. Will be in DC all weekend for Shmoocon 2008

  663. Weekend Convention

    I’ll be at the annual nerd convention all weekend. I’ve already made dinner plans for Friday. I don’t know what is up Saturday night for dinner, nor do I know if the Shmoo group has a Saturday night open bar planned like last year’s (which kicked ass). Sunday afternoon lunch is also already planned.

    Anyone else going?

  664. Hates business-english. Engage your viable driven execution!

  665. Would like to go back to 1986 to teach someone carpentry

  666. Is dizzy

  667. Hope you’re feeling better. Please don’t get the lady sick 😃

  668. Did not get his cold from Phil Turner

  669. Has a cold

  670. Has been replaced with a simple shell script

  671. Crashed the old

  672. 's only friend is his enflamed right partoid salivary gland

  673. Johnny Winter

    I just bought two general admission tickets to see Johnny Winter
    at The State Theatre in Virginia March 22nd.

    I haven’t really listened to any recent Johnny Winter – I have Second Winter and it’s great, but what really motivated me to grab tickets isn’t specifically his stuff (or that he played at Woodstock). Johnny brought Muddy Waters out of retirement to re-record using a mix of his band and Johnny’s band and the result, Hard Again, is the quintessential blues record of the 20th century.

    What an opportunity!

  674. Tufte on the iPhone

    Edward Tufte has posted a video and essay reviewing successes and failures of presentation and design in Apple’s iPhone. It is an especially easy to digest block of Tufte’s long running attention to information density.

    1. Keep information on a single surface
    2. Small multiples are great
    3. High resolution is nice
    4. Computer administrative junk obstructs information
    5. Images are superior to cartoons of images

    This is mostly common sense stuff, unfortunately when we play desktop publisher we are left with tools that do not have common sense. A graph in excel plotting three numbers over 12 weeks should have the same resolution as the table of data it is meant to augment or replace, and preferably the resolution should be much higher than that.

    Sadly, this is never the case.

    We should be able to easily place graphics, charts, tables, and text into a document in our editors. How did Microsoft Word beat the Quark’s and inDesign’s and Acrobats to failing at this? Why do we write with an editor that is a typewriter dressed up as a Publisher?

    Design is then dictated by the medium.

    Typewritten materials

    • spacing indented first line and double spaced paragraphs
    • two spaces after full stops ending sentences
    • no images
    • no graphics
    • minimal tables
    • Single font size

    Powerpoint slide decks

    • minimal tables due to import / export complexity
    • Graphics that were acceptable on 13” to 17” screens projected to 70” diagonals
    • Clip Art
    • Sliding Animations
    • Wipes
    • Screen reading

    Most unfortunate.

  675. Stavely, you handsome devil. How the heck are ya?

  676. Space Ghost Coast to Coast fortunes

    The Bill Brasky fortunes never get old. But just in case, I threw together some Space Ghost Coast to Coast fortunes!

    sgc2c.tar.gz.

    [grant@bender var]$ fortune sgc2c
    "Did you ever meet Haystack Calhoun? He was a MOUNTAIN of a man."   -Leonard Ghostal
    [grant@bender var]$ fortune sgc2c
    Space Ghost: So, Zorak, how was your weekend?
    Zorak: I, uh, I did some volunteer work over at the orphanage.
    [grant@bender var]$ fortune sgc2c
    Space Ghost: [looking for Zorak] Green... wears a vest... tall guy...   bald...
    Zorak: ...no pants..
    [grant@bender var]$ fortune sgc2c
    Moltar: This is how I am. I'm destroying the planet!
    Denis Leary: Is that so?
    Moltar: Yeah. And I'm having a sale too.`

    Put the contents of that tarball in /usr/share/games/fortune or somewhere similar and enjoy!

    I keep this in my ~/.login

    > `[ -x /usr/games/fortune ] && /usr/games/fortune brasky sgc2c   `
  677. Stammerd ‘you are definitely my favorite dj’

  678. Will chase a red dot in circles for hours

  679. Is. (whoa.)

  680. Making Pizza Paradiso Pizza

    Pizza Paradiso is my all time favorite neapolitan pizza, beer bar, and restaurant. If ever find yourself in Washington DC, make a point of stopping in.

    pizza paradiso's logo
    Figure 1. pizza paradiso's logo.

    The owner and chef RuthGresser has posted a 17 part video series on how she makes her pizza’s!

    Awesome, I can’t wait to try my hand at making a pie. Baltimore has plenty of Italian deli’s that can be utilized to skip the laborious dough making process. We buy our pizza dough and other ingredients from Di Pasquale’s in Highlandtown and when we are feeling lazy stay and have a neapolitan pizza from their brick oven.

  681. Is going to Nashville this weekend

  682. Has a cow

  683. TV-B-Gone II

    Kill your television folks! Adbust your counterculture!

    Bloggers at one of the major annual electronics conferences used a tv-b-gone to power off electronics used by presenters. What ~hilarious pranksters~ jerks.

    Great comments over at Webware.

    There is an interesting infosec black/white hat divide on response to the issue. There is also a lot of hacker-ish blaming the victim going around. Lame.

    Video of the idiocy.

  684. Shmoocon 2008 tickets ordered!

    I grabbed 10 Shmoocon tickets this year, and that was forgetting two people.

    shmoo cartoon character
    Figure 1. shmoo cartoon character.

    Last year our group was able to upgrade to a suite. We’ll be trying some smooth William Shatner moves to repeat the upgrade this year.

    UPDATE: We waited too long to get hotel reservations and sure enough, the entire Marriott in Woodley Park is booked. We ended up getting rooms at the Washington Marriott, which is at 22nd and M St. NW. After SANS at the Woodley Marriott for a week last month I could use the upgrade / change of neighborhood.

  685. Blew a fuse after all, the ground was fine all along!

  686. Can’t find what’s wrong with the ground

  687. Not at all, I’ll talk you INTO the Corbusier chaise 😃

  688. Is howlin’ wolf

  689. Loves having a wood stove