The main security blog I read is Matasano Chargen, which is educational and amusing. Today Wes Brown posted a basic intro to SIP and SIP security issues in the context of a story about Mario, Princess Peach, Luigi and Bowser. Fear the turtle.
This Saturday there’s an Oktoberfest celebration in the Dimond district from 11 am to 6 pm only about 6 blocks from our house. Obviously, we’ll be there. Local brewers Linden Street, Pacific Coast Brewing, Trumer and Triple Rock will be pouring their beer, plus there will be beer from New Belgium and traditional Bavarian brewer… Read More: Dimond Oktoberfest »
We take a train from Budapest to Vienna this morning. Budapest has been fantastic, though the weather was not always so great, chilly and rainy at times. We had a wonderful stay this week at the Danube Guest House. Bob and Zoli have been the perfect hosts. They were gracious, helpful, informative and kind. Our… Read More: Budapest to Vienna »
Saturday morning we leave for two weeks in Hungary, Vienna, Slovenia and Croatia. We also sneaked in a twenty-three and a half hour layover in Amsterdam on the way home. They wouldn’t let us make it more than 24 hours without charging us more. Our niece is spending the fall semester in Budapest, so we… Read More: Central Europe Vacation »
I normally can’t see myself riding a recumbent, but this one would be pretty cool. And going back to my previous post that mentioned wooden bikes, this one looks pretty heavy, and that’s just from all the spokes. And topping the recent discussion here of belt-driven bikes is this cable-driven bike that you have to… Read More: Bicycle Exhibition 2008 »
The Daily Show on Wednesday was brilliant. Jon Stewart and his team did a fantastic job of letting Karl Rove, Bill O’Reilly, Dick Morris, and Nancy Pfotenhauer demonstrate their extreme hypocrisy by playing recent videos of them completely contradicting videos of them from the last few months to a year ago. Palin provides a message… Read More: Republican Hypocrites? Nahh… »
The University announced they were trimming some of the contested oaks this morning. Well, I’ve heard from someone on site that they’ve “trimmed” seven of them to the ground. They’re now trying to get the rest of the tree squatters out of the trees. While I consider myself an environmentalist, I’m with the University on… Read More: UC Berkeley Tree Trimming »
So after fixing the flat I got biking to work today (fortunately, it was a slow leak, so I could ride in before fixing it), I’m talking to Stephen about bike innovations. After talking about the bike another friend of mine designed and constructed completely, or at least 99%, out of wood, we start talking… Read More: Penny-Farthing Spookiness »
In a comment on another post, a friend pointed out a fun game from Language Trainers Group for guessing accents . You listen to someone read a few lines from a poem and then you answer a multiple choice question to identify their country of origin. For a couple of them, you can get bonus… Read More: Accent Game »
My mother stayed in Biloxi at a friend’s house very close to hers in north Biloxi. She just went back home and discovered the only damage to be limbs down in her yard. Fortunately, her house is in one of the best places to be in Biloxi in a hurricane. Winds in Biloxi reportedly reached… Read More: Gustav Impact on Mississippi »