Archive for the 'unelaborated' Category

When you need information …

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

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 …

Time for some random links

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

I’ve accumulated a bunch of “to-read” links in the last couple months, things that I skimmed but wanted to give more time and thought to. It’s been building up, though … and I realized that I’m becoming a link packrat. So I’m purging them. And you get to see! haha! I’ve written about some of [...]

A coherent picture of disgust in action.

Monday, July 24th, 2006

This story I ran into (via technocrat) is interesting, if nothing else as an informative commentary on human nature and the nature of disgust. It talks about opposition to pumping reclaimed water from sewage treatment back into a reservoir and adding it back to the supply of potable water — after being extensively treated and [...]

sudden shifts in technological preference…

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

So, for a long time I’ve been a pico/nano user. Then one day I just sort of suddenly started using vim. I don’t know why … I just did. I think it was about 2, 3 months ago maybe. Away from “intuitive” and towards “efficient” I suppose. Then, just last week, I started using “control-d” [...]

A thought from the shower …

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

The afterlife is a really, really terrifying idea.