As the title says, please stop saying “cyber”. It means nothing. More specifically, what it does mean is “blah blah networks and/or security”. In the industry, this is so non-specific that it essentially means nothing anyways. As a security engineer, I get pretty sick of seeing/hearing the term “cyber” thrown around to describe pretty much [...]
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The other day I was driving around with Emily, and I mentioned to her the origin of the name and logo of Cisco Systems. I can’t remember how it came up, but it did. I’m constantly tinkering with stuff in my lab, so she knows what the logo looks like even though it isn’t her [...]
We’ve had a more interesting winter than usual here in New England this year. Average snowfall in Boston is around 40 inches per year, and we’ve had nearly 70 this year (as of January) spread across 10 or so snowfalls. So I’ve had some time to watch how people react to snow (whether I like [...]
Men and women have both known for a long time that the two sexes see colors differently. Women often wonder why men just say “blue” when we see things like the sky, the ocean, Facebook, every Ford Focus, and so on. And men wonder why women have silly colors like azure, cobalt, sapphire, iris, teal, [...]
Last night I had to go to the store to get rum. The rum was gone. I posted about it on facebook. It was a problem. I announced my intention to my loving fiancee, who promptly asked me “honey, could you get me tampons?” in the most adorable “I know you won’t want to do [...]
So this company Wicked Lasers recently came out with a new toy. When I look at it, I think to myself “I should never own anything like this” and “I have to have one” at the same time. Previously, high powered laser “pointers” would go for pretty ridiculous amounts. Usually the high hundreds to over [...]
So there’s this guy at our place with a Segway. You know, the dorky pogo stick with wheels that middle age yuppies and mall cops think are really cool. Well, this guy thinks it’s real cool. And he’s fucking creepy about it. I first heard about CSG one saturday morning when Emily came into the [...]
On the subject of the the following article, Full Text (via Huffington Post) I often think I could have been a lawyer or a politician. I think a lot of this generations bright and well meaning potential politicians have been scared off by how much BS and red tape there is in the way of [...]
So I’ve been away from blog-land for a while. I recently migrated my main server for iggdawg.com from FreeBSD to Ubuntu, mostly due to lack of CUDA support on FreeBSD. The details aren’t important, and you probably aren’t here to listen to techno-babble. Unfortunately during the move, a Bad Thing happened and I managed to [...]
I thought this was good enough to repost. Alt-text reproduced faithfully. Ref: http://xkcd.com/712/
