A day late, and a bit more than a dollar short. We missed the storms this evening by attending the ASC Cabaret - lovely. Weekend: yardwork, getting a bunch of stuff done, but just one bed fully prepared, planted, and protected from the wrascally wrabbits. * * * DoD reports no casualties in the last week. Ciao!
Continue reading...Whoops. One third of a year is gone. And we apparently went straight from Winter to Summer this last week. It was still Winter on Monday, with a frost coating all the lawns and roofs in our neighborhood. Spring lasted about 6 hours. I say this because, for me, Spring is the period of time between turning off the furnace, and turning on the air conditioning. That lasted about 6 hours on Wednesday (it was a 40°F wake-up temp), I figure the furnace was running until about 10 AM; I turned on the AC at 4 PM (it was 87°F…
Continue reading...Fun weekend. After the first full week back from vacation, I put in a grueling day and a half at BSidesCharm. Talks and panels all day and into the evening on Saturday, then I came back for half a day today. I missed a couple of afternoon talks and the closing ceremony so that I could catch up on the mowing, etc. Favorite talks: OSX/Pirrit by Amit Serper on Saturday, and Effective Monitoring by Russell Mosley and Ryan St. Germain on Sunday (yep, I'm biased about that one). The Saturday evening Straight Up panel was a lot of fun, only…
Continue reading...Well. That was one of the longest breaks I've had in posting since I started 18 years and change ago. Reasonable reason: We went out to California to visit family. Other than puttering about working on Python a bit here and there, I was offline most of the time. A very relaxing trip, but hard to jump back into the groove. We got back near midnight Wednesday. Thursday was shopping, picking up the dog from the boarding kennel, and (apparently) sleeping much of the rest of the day (but a couple of hours patching systems remotely in the mid-evening hours).
Continue reading...I don't have anything particularly amusing going on just now that is pertinent to April Fool's Day, but there's always an RFC, so here's one of two from this very day: Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode. If those terms aren't in your weekly vocabulary, then you're probably not going to find much distressingly funny about the other end of the link, but I had a chuckle or two. We had a lovely week, with my niece Alex joining us for much of it. She got some quality museum time in, and saw some friends from elsewhere. She also joined us…
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