Archive for August, 2009
We have all be on the phone talking to someone that we may not know all to well, when at the end of the conversation they say “sounds good, go ahead and shoot me an email about this.”. If you are like me you think, “why we just talked about it”. However that email actually [ READ MORE ]
In America and most of the western world when we hear the phrase “paying the ultimate cost” we think of dying for a cause. Basically it means we value ones life as the highest cost we can sacrifice. In security the only way to protect something is to make the cost so high that attacking [ READ MORE ]
If you are like me you don’t exactly see the usefulness of the social networking site Twitter. After reading a recent wired article I can not better see that usefulness. There appears to be some pretty clever people connecting common house hold devices to Twitter. This really isn’t all that new of a concept however. People have [ READ MORE ]
Bruce Schneier has a great insight on risk. In a recent post to his blog he wrote: People have a natural intuition about risk, and in many ways it’s very good. It fails at times due to a variety of cognitive biases, but for normal risks that people regularly encounter, it works surprisingly well: often better [ READ MORE ]
Dr. Dave Marshall at Cardiff School of Computer Science has written a great C tutorial. This tutorial is mostly aimed at UNIX C developers and covers the basics of C programming to advanced multi-threaded application development. This is the tutorial that I used to learn C and I still open it up whenever I need [ READ MORE ]
Hours after deciding WordPress should be the content engine I use for this website/blog I am able to post this message. I was attempting to roll my own content engine based off of Django for several months. The problem was that I didn’t find developing it very interesting. Once I got based user authentication and [ READ MORE ]