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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Monthly Archives: September 2006
News from the future…
Link taken from Bruce Schneier’s blog: Future history: 19-year-old Diebold Technician Wins U.S. Presidency (If only the truth behind it were that funny!)
Whew!
Just got back from meeting my advisor, and had a great talk with her. It was so worth the trip out here. When you’re working remotely, sometimes it’s really hard to be sure how you’re progressing; after a nice long … Continue reading
Cracking away in the Land of Corn…
Being back at Purdue is always pretty surreal. Every time I come here, I subconsciously seem to utter “returning to the scene of the crime, eh?” – lots of the best things in my life have happened here (including The … Continue reading
I want to work, but my head won’t let me…
Stupid sinus headaches. Just when I am smack dab in the middle of a cool part of the analysis – and when I want to get something off to my advisor before next week’s trip back to Purdue – dry … Continue reading
With apologies to my two friends who’ve studied business…
There’s an interesting post up at the orgtheory.net blog on a study showing that amongst graduate students, 56% of graduate business students cheat, in constrast to 47% of non-business students. I have two comments about this – first of all, … Continue reading
I’m afraid I’m gonna have to beat Wil Wheaton…
Sorry, Wil. I’m gonna have to beat your ass. No, it’s not because you’re a confessed, proud geek (I’m a fan of geeks). It’s not even some sort of need to kick Wesley Crusher in effigy (I’ve no beef with … Continue reading
Ack! My eyes! My eyes!
Mister Rogers must be rolling in his grave. (clicky) Is nothing sacred? *shiver*
The Stupidest… Hacker… Ever.
Link yanked from Peter Forret’s blog – may I present: The Stupidest Hacker Ever. Come on… laugh. Old Guard of the Internets, you know you want to… I don’t know if it’s apocryphal or not, but it did make me … Continue reading
Synthesis
So Wednesdays (or early Thursdays, depending on how the week has gone, I guess) are when I send off my weekly progress reports to my advisor. I’ve been doing a lot of background reading the past couple of weeks, and … Continue reading
Want to protest? Watch out – the Air Force may want you to be its new guinea pig…
So according to CNN, the Secretary of the Air Force, Michael Wynne, thinks unruly U.S. mobs should become test subjects for new non-lethal weapons. From the article: “If we’re not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then … Continue reading
