Archive for the ‘random’ Category
Monday, November 17th, 2008
no time to make a reasonable post but there is an amazing set of quotes from my network security book:
At one of the final IETF meetings before AH and ESP were finalized, someone from Microsoft got up and gave an impassioned speech about how AH was useless given the existence ...
Posted in fall 08, procrastination, random, security | Comments Off on zomg school!
Friday, September 19th, 2008
So life has actually been somewhat exciting and full of (good and bad) things recently...
among these things is the fact that I have massive wrist pain (both wrists!) so in lieu of a real update you should grab me and we'll chat.
Posted in fall 08, procrastination, random | Comments Off on PAIN!
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Nothing is actually going on in life right now but there's a first I just noticed... if you google for "android competition results" my post about it is hit #1.
Hit 1? Really? How in the world did that happen?
And hit 3 for just "android competition".
I mean, I realize that phrasing ...
Posted in android, google, pointless, random, summer 08 | Comments Off on Milestone
Friday, June 13th, 2008
One of my fellow CoC bloggers wrote a bit about how CS majors all want to reinvent the wheel and it's so very true. At lunch with my extended team we hit on the topic of random personal projects and it surprised me (though I suppose it shouldn't have) ...
Posted in navel gazing, random | Comments Off on On reinventing the wheel
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I've been through three first weeks with various companies (Proficient, Amazon, and now VMware) so the experience of joining a new workplace has become somewhat old hat[0]. I've found, in my vast experience[1], that the first week (or so) does a lot to set the tone of my tenure ...
Posted in amazon, navel gazing, procrastination, random, summer 08, vmware | Comments Off on Reflections on the onboarding experience