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Dan's DNS Talk from Blackhat

If you’re at all into security, Web 2.0, systems administration, you need to check it out here. Yes, it’s a Powerpoint, but it’s worth opening. It covers not just the recent DNS attacks, but use and abuse of DNS to disrupt Email, SSL, ‘Forgot your password’ systems. Also explains attack vectors for Internal systems, so [...]

Ubuntu 8 on Parallels 3 (and some other VM packages)

You’ll see This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: 0:6 Unable to boot – please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU. You need to go here and it’ll fix you right up.

Welcome, Preston!

Born today (Sat Nov 10th, 04:31 EST) and weighing in at 8 pounds, 14 ounces – he was 7 days late, but right on time as far as we were concerned.

Still Waiting…

Yup, I’m still pregnant, to the surprise of a lot of people. The official due date is tomorrow, so all I can do is wait. Ken and I do have an ‘eviction date’ for baby on November 9, 2007.

Google Reader Stats, Redux

It’s time for an update on Google Reader. Since my last post on July 27th, I’ve added a number of new feeds, but overall the numbers of articles hasn’t really increased. I’ve also noted that I haven’t starred or shared any more items, even though the numbers of feeds and articles have increased. Based on [...]

Day 1 of Inbox Zero

I finally got around to watching Merlin Mann of 43folders.com‘s talk at Google about Inbox Zero late last night. I figured as it was the 1st of the month, a perfect time to start something like this – so I’ve done just that. I basically declared Inbox bankruptcy, and renamed my current Inbox, and started [...]

A month with Google Reader

I’ve been using Google Reader for a little over a month now, and it’s made a significant impact on my daily life that it warrants a post. I figure I used to spend 60-120 minutes a day on several tech sites, blogs and other news feeds. I’ve recovered much of that time, thanks to RSS [...]

Software Development Methodologies for the Real World

Scott Berkum has a great post here where he identifies a number of different development managements methods. Spend a few minutes checking out the comments too, since commenters have suggested additional methods, which are as good as the ones Scott identified.

Google Reader

Ran across Google Reader, a pretty slick online RSS aggregator. Basically an Inbox for news and other feeds. I setup my normal collection of website feeds in about 2 minutes, and promptly got reading. Not sure if I’m going to stick with it, but so far it seems to work really well as a one-stop-shop [...]

Congrats, Andrew and Lonnie!

Just finished processing some shots from Andrew and Lonnies wedding (which I was the photographer for).

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