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Archive for December, 2004

quick, happy note: we got a new kitten!

Wednesday, December 29th, 2004

amity and i went down to the south texas persian rescue to look at their kittens. we had one in mind, but ended up going with a deep brown medium-haired male who we found extremely affectionate, well tempered, purrs almost as much as purrbarella and has enough energy to keep satan kitty occupied!

please pardon the [...]

happy holidays to all and fucking hell, did you read about the earthquake?

Sunday, December 26th, 2004

i purposefully avoided interaction with computers for the last day and a half and have actually ended up relaxing and having a fairly nice time. rick and joshel both came over for the dinner amity and i (well, mostly amity) made and we had a generally mellow time of it. we got gifts ranging from [...]

vacation!!!

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004

today makes my last workday for a week and a half! i have tomorrow through the end of next week off…paid!
after contracting for so long, this makes me very excited. of course, i have work for my second job to do, but i have i lot more time to do it in.
so many things i [...]

expensive web security lessen touches many students

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

as anyone who reads slashdot or a number of any other tech or security sites might've read about santy, the new webserver-only worm, written in perl. this particularly interests me, since santy basically searches google for sites using phpBB (a quite popular forum web app written in php). it then exploits a vulnerability in the [...]

quick update

Monday, December 20th, 2004

just going to post a couple of good things because i don't feel up for posting the bad ones.
part of my present arrived! a tascam dp-01, a digital 8-track recorder. took some time this weekend to hook it up the keyboard caleb had given to us and taught myself (well, the manual taught me) the [...]