mmmmm ribs

one critical flaw. I forgot the brown sugar! sprinkled some on though and wrapped in foil. now I have a slight sweetness to some burning HOT Spicey ribs.
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wanting to blog more...

thinking that its time to start blogging about my daily brainfarts and figuring things out. i'm a big fan of Matty over at prefetch.net. our day jobs seem to be very similar.

slakin.net|mattsn0w.com back online

server OS needs to be upgraded still, but the server is back online. not much bandwidth still but in a colo with inline APC and generators.

Databases...

After a year and seven months at a database company I finally learned something about database design.
Unique identifiers are a must thing to have in database tables. Foriegn keys are cool but a unique ID is better. :)

Flying to detroit tonight ...

So Friday my boss and a colleage come to me while I'm in the server room working on cabling. They both look like they want to ask me for something. They do... "matt, how would you like to take an all expense paid trip to troy Michigan?". I reluctantly ask …

Iphone wp posting

Work picked up an iPhone for me. Good times.

nifty hardware links

How computers boot up - http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-computers-boot-up

Motherboard chipsets and memory maps - http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/motherboard-chipsets-memory-map

Kernel boot process - http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/kernel-boot-process

Links to fun stuff

How to be sucessfully lazy - http://blog.liferemix.net/lazy-productivity-10-simple-ways-do-only-three-things-today

Why ActiveX+web front-end to your SSL VPN is BAD! - http://www.sensepost.com/blog/2237.html

NetFlow tools - http://www.openbsd.org + http://www.mindrot.org/projects/pfflowd/ + http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flowd/ + http://www.dynamicnetworks.us/netflow …

back from LV/DC16

I'm headed back to work today. Very scared by the intern3ts. Defcon is always such an eye opening event. Computers have come a long way yet still programmers/coders for paid products care less and less about security. For once I applaud microsoft for trying to have heap overflow protection …

defcon16

wednesday night a few buddies and I will be boarding a WRX near us to drive to Las Vegas for Defcon 16. there is for sure to be some good talks, great conversation with some of the smartest minds in security, and a bit of partying at the hofbrauhaus and …

new blog software...

i'm no longer using WheatBlog due to the lack of captcha for comments. The fucking spammers are relentless.