I got back from vacation almost two weeks ago, and here I am only now getting around to posting photos and writing something up. In my defense, I got back and we had an aikido seminar the next weekend. And I've also got around 2,000 pictures to go through (I'm about half way, I think -- there's a lot of junk ( Read more... )

I posted in January of last year after an almost 2 year hiatus of not really posting anything at all.  I sort of thought I'd have things to say or try to say things whether I had them or not.  That didn't work out.  In fact, I posted a grand total of 3 times.  In my head, I've worked on two or three posts I might put up in the new year and, even as ( Read more... )

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Yeah, like I ever post here, or, in fact, anywhere.  Hi ( Read more... )

There are a few things outstanding, naturally. But it's in our grubby little hands now along with the associated debt. Next up: moving, I suppose.

Won't keep me from giving a huge sigh of relief.

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Someone at work pointed to this yesterday (and I see Slashdot has a post).  If I point back here to my earlier post (TL;DR -- PIN selection is important if you're worried about the cops copying all your emails off your iPhone), one of the things I said was that for most people the 4 digit PIN would be fine, especially if you're backing up regularly ( Read more... )

Funky.  It looks like my choice of LJ style has gone bye-bye or at least been seriously de-tuned.  Well, something new to spend time and energy on later.

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I've been following this at work a bit and Bruce Schneier recently linked to it on his blog.  This post is mostly my own notes about how the passcode on my phone protects some of my data and how well it does that.  But I've tried to write it up so it's reasonably consumable.

ElcomSoft has a suite of tools for performing forensic analysis on devices ( Read more... )

In the alt-text for this XKCD, Randall suggests that following the first content related link (ie not in italics and not in parentheses) on any Wikipedia post will lead you inevitably to philosophy.  Naturally, I had to try this, but it doesn't seem to work for me.  Once you hit mathematics, the links lead the reader in a circle that comes back to ( Read more... )