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New Arrival

Many of you already know this, but on Monday of last week (March 7, 2005) our new daughter Ripley Lynn arrived. She was 4 weeks early, but weighed in at 7lbs 4ozs. G was happy that she came a little early because otherwise she would have been a monster.

G was a trooper through the whole thing and went completely natural. She didn't even have an asprin for pain relief through the ordeal. It was painful to watch, but I'm sure it was nothing in comparison to what she was feeling. By the time she did ask for something, it was too late to give her anything. I have a new found respect for anyone who can manage this.

Outside of watching my wife in pain, it was miraculous to watch. Seeing Ripley arrive was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. I know this is completely cleche, but it's true.

Now before I get a bunch of hate mail, here are the pictures.

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Mythbusters

It shouldn't be a big surprise, but Mythbusters is one of my favorite TV shows. G & I watch every new episode together. If you haven't seen it, it's kind of "Mr. Science" meets "Monster Garage" for lack of a better explanation. They look at popular urban myths and figure out whether they are plausible or crap. Generally, something gets blown up in the process.

Anyway, they were the draw at one of the vendor parties last night. Frankly, it was the only reason I went because my company, or at least my division, has no need for this specific product. So, I went for free beer, hors douvres and the Mythbusters. It was very cool because they had a Q&A period, followed by the bloopers that they can't broadcast due to content, and then socialization. I got to talk to Adam for about 20 minutes asking him various questions about things on the show and just BSing. Very cool. Plus I got my picture taken with them. I'll post it when I get access to a scanner (I don't carry one to conferences :-).

That was the high point of the week.

posted at 18:20 [/misc] #

RSA conference

I've been spending this week in San Francisco at the 14th annual RSA security conference. It's been educational. There have been a number of sessions that have made me scratch my head and wonder how these idiots got to speak to this number of people. Then there were the talks that I came to see.

The funny thing is that there are more people here that I know and have read their books and papers than any other conference I've ever attended. Many of you reading this probably know that I like to read about security and crypto for fun. I don't get a lot of the higher level math, but I still think it's cool. Any way, I'm here hearing the big names in the field speak.

I saw a talk by two of the names at RSA (The 'R' and the 'S' specifically). Talking with them was Diffie of key exchange fame. How often do you get that? Then later in the day I saw a talk by one of my personal favorite writers, Bruce Schneier, who's work I often link. All of these were educational.

Then there were two talks by Richard Clark. You know, Mr "I told you so" on the whole 9/11 thing. It was cool to see him speak, but it was more of the same old thing.

I guess the most entertaining was the opening keynote by Bill Gates. It was kind of amusing having him speak at a computer security conference when his products are the biggest problems on the Net. The most amusing part of his talk was his pronouncement that SPAM has topped out and should decline, especially because of new technology that Microsoft is working on. He actually thinks that he can profile SPAM in a way that won't be circumvented in a day or two.

This afternoon, I should get to meet the Mythbusters at one of the booths in the expo hall. That will be cool. G & I love their show. I will post a picture of me with them if I manage to meet them.

posted at 16:51 [/misc] #

We're married!!!

As I mentioned earlier on the blog, G & I got engaged back in February. Yesterday was the big day and we are officially married!

It was a lot of fun and we want to thank everyone for their kind thoughts. Most of the people that we invited to the wedding & reception were able to attend. We were glad to see everyone, even though we weren't able to talk with everyone.

We did have one big announcement that we shared with folks that were able to make it... We are expecting a new addition to our family at the end of March. It was kind of a surprise, but a happy one.

More details on everything to follow...

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Updates

I haven't posted in a while.

Things have been nuts around here. Between the wedding planning and work I haven't had the motivation to actually write anything in this space. There has also been a little trouble with the blog software since I tried switching programs. I think I've gotten the kinks worked out, so maybe I'll actually do something here with the space.

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Odd behavior

You may notice some odd behavior in the blog over the next few days. I am importing historical posts and they are being assigned to the current day. So if you think you've read these already, you probably have. I'm going to work on updating them to reflect the original date, but that may be a problem since I no longer have shell access to the site.

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New blog software

I was getting sick of the old software that I was using to manage my blog. I decided to try something new. The new software is a freeware program called blosxom.

It was a little harder to get it setup, but it looks like it will be pretty cool once I get used to it. It works with plain text files for the entries, and then dynamically compiles them with a CGI script. It's light weight and seems to be fairly responsive.

If you notice any strange behavior, please let me know.

posted at 01:00 [/misc] #

Blog frenzy

As you can tell, I've finally gotten over this lull in posting to this site. I can't guarantee how long this will last, but I will be making more of an effort to post the interesting articles I find. I'll also try to keep things more "techie" instead of the political flavor that I had for a while. I'm sure that I will still be posting articles about politics periodically, but I'm not going to make that the entire content of the blog.

posted at 20:38 [/misc] #

First Post...

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