What we do

It’s nice that geeks are cool now. Now there are a lot of people who say they’re hardcore. Here’s some of them:

These stereotypes are not who I’m going to be talking about, though I do have some guilty pleasures of a few of those portrayed above. I’m going to talk about me and my kind. [...]

The Trials of Toorcamp

Toorcamp was many things this year.

It was fun.

It was uncomfortable.

Dustdevils ate things occasionally.

It was turbulent due to the trouble with Levitate to get hackers to help promote their event for free or they wouldn’t fulfill their agreement to let us use the missile facility for talks and workshops.

There was some excellent music.

There were fine people [...]

Big Tech Wins: Calendars

So that covers how I have made my contacts sane and available. What about calendars?

I have a bit of a complicated life, so I have a few different types of calendars:

Home, social, and personal stuff
My day job
Assorted other professional and industry engagements

The best way to get things all extra organized and available so that you [...]

Amazon downtime

There was recent news about how Amazon was down for two hours. Speculation runs rampant on cnet about the cause:

“It doesn’t seem to be the result of a network-initiated attack, at least from my preliminary analysis from our probes,” Ranjan said.

Human error may not sound as gripping a tale [...]

Symantec and commercial spyware

I have no sympathy for the consumers of Solid Oak as discussed, if that is the right word, in the well circulated Chloe Albanesius article dramatically entitled “Update: Symantec Screwup Is ‘Worse Than Any Virus.‘”

Yes. Let’s be as sensational as possible far beyond the point of legitimacy. Good plan, Chloe. I’m sure your frothing editors [...]