STOP USING THE PREFIX "CYBER"

I've been following the Egyptian revolutionprotests fairly closely today. I'm not sure what got my attention where I would've otherwise failed to give a shit. I think it was that the Egyptian government shut off the internet. OH GOD, THEY SHUT OFF THE INTERNET. I get heart palpitations just thinking about it ( Read more... )

With everything else going on, someone's been trying to hack my passwords. I find this… intriguing.

I got an old Cisco 2600 router from work when we were about to dispose of it. I figured my house was a much less ignominious end for the poor thing. I set it up that very night. Ah, bliss, to be running my own Cisco hardware at home, something I haven't done in my nearly 20 years as a network engineer ( Read more... )

Alrighty, my charitable peeps. I just gave $50 to Childs Play, the premier charity by gamers, for children. I suggest, nay, demand that you go do something similar. It doesn't have to be that much, it can be more, it can be less. But this is one charity, and one cause, that you can all be 100% behind.

Clicky!

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I'm really enjoying myself right now. I'm looking forward to the holidays. I'm looking forward to cooking for thanksgiving, and I've got great ideas for gifts for the kids. I was really stressed out and depressed last year for the whole season, although I guess I hid it pretty well. This year, I want to make up for last year ( Read more... )

This weekend was PAX. It was my second year there, first as a non-enforcer. Last year ended early, due to pinkeye. So that doesn't even fucking count. Got it? We won't count that ( Read more... )

It fun to discover a great new artist opening at a concert, only to discover that you've been listening to them in a different project for years.

Listening to Imaad Wasif, previously of Folk Implosion. Recommended.

I'm really frustrated with my brain meds. The prozac, despite past successes isn't working well. Probably too similar to the Paxil, which worked for 7 years, then petered out ( Read more... )

At the peak of my Eve Online days, I had a big Gallente battleship, which I named Wheel Of Taranis. I chose "wheel", because I'd been reading Gene Wolfe's Torturer series, in which people being broken on the wheel is a frequent mention. I chose Taranis because it seemed like a decent name for a god, demigod or hero who went around torturing and ( Read more... )