complich8′s journal

Everyone else is doing 2008 retrospectives, so I might as well too, right? The most salient thing about last year is that it to me marked a sort of real liberation. In 2007, I graduated, moved to the DC area and started a “real job” with CACI in downtown arlington, but I wasn’t really making [...]

So, for various reasons, I’ve decided to join Facebook and LinkedIn. I feel like a sellout. That is all.

So, ages back, when I started getting comment spam of all sorts of different types, I set up a moderation queue and made a rule … basically, if you posted with 2 or more links in your comment, it’d go into that queue and I’d moderate it. I get email whenever there’s a successful comment, [...]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/27/bbc_horizon/ Yeah, so the meat is, a BBC pop sci show, “Horizons” did a recent episode on “Human v2.0″ talking about the idea of machine-augmented humans and such. A rich area to be sure (already having given rise to loads of actual good sci-fi, not to mention classic anime like Ghost in the Shell). But [...]

What better way to get it than ask?. (ISC handler’s diary requesting both people who’ve found botnets, and botnet operators for information about sizes, purposes, etc). I wonder if they’ll get any info via the direct approach from opers like that …