Just a quick note as to the quietness of the blog. I’m working on a few things: my slides for OSCON (webappsec 150 tutorial, and updating my Ajax presentation to include the latest research and make it a bit more (ahem) controversial to liven things up) doing demos for the above my slides for OWASP…
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It doesn’t rain, it pours
As I was wondering how to force myself to sleep at 2.30 am as my body clock is still way out of whack from the unspeakable misery that is my throat, my fiancée Tanya had an anaphylactic reaction to something. After she tried all three methods of control, including an auto-injecting adrenaline monster needle, I…
Not a well chappie
I’ve got more stuff to go up here, but I’m not feeling very well. On Sunday night in Steve’s flat in Munich, I felt a bit lightheaded after some decent wine and grappa. I put it down to that. I woke the next morning feeling very hot and flushed. I thought, bugger, what a hang…
Munich – Saturday (Deutsches Museum)
We got up, had breakfast, and walked to the Deutsches Museum. Unlike any other museum, this is a geek museum. It’s like geek heaven there. Except there’s so much to see and that entails a lot of walking. They have feet massagers, but they take 50 c coins, and I haven’t acquired any of those…
Munich – Friday
I landed in Munich and waited to pick up my luggage. The new airport feels like one big BMW ad. There’s BMW everywhere, so at least I had something to look at. Eventually my bag came, and I headed out. I met up with Steve Riehm, who is hosting me in Munich. When I was…
Meeting up with the family
On Thursday morning, I took the very reasonably priced train up to my family near St Nicklaas. It looks a long way on the map, but it’s only 40 or so km. Europe is compact that way. The weather is still crappy and it barely makes it above 10 C. Met up with Eddy at…
eBay: do not recommend, waste of time
Well, I’ve just had my first experience with eBay of being kicked in the teeth for being honest. I’ve been a member for six years, and until last week, I maintained a perfect 100% reputation basically by being me in all my dealings. Here’s a hint – it’s simply not worth it as eBay will…
My Mac is back. Oh yeah!
I’ve been off the air effectively for two weeks with the temperature sensor issue. It’s been everything I could do just to do the things I had to do, like moderate the webappsec queue. Everything else – writing the Guide, responding to e-mail, doing my slides for OWASP EU, etc have all been put on…
Why Apple will never win the desktop dominance battle
For the last few months, I’ve been battling a debilitating issue with my Apple G4 laptop. It has narcolepsy. The trackpad in many G4 laptops contains a faulty temperature sensor. It normally reads -16 to 4 C (which is wrong), but the operating system monitors it. From time to time (and for me all the…
Movie plot threat contest
Don’t let your government be the only one to come up with insane and stupid reasons why they want to curtail your freedoms. Bruce Schneier has just the idea: Movie Plot Idea Submission Thread Feel free to submit a story idea – you never know, you may be the next Swordfish or Firewall!