Just finished The Cuckoo’s Egg. Pre-morris worm haxoring! The closest anything came to a mention of Redmond was a flippant reference to “DOS” about twice, amongst many other PC OS’s. Ben suggested it, good/fast read. Pre Chaos Club! Pre-BBS! NYT best seller, yadda-yadda.

Last week I was working for a fire alarm vendor fixing their VPN / redoing their firewall policy (Juniper Netscreen for those interested, with an LOL “[permit - permit] on the [untrust -> trust] chain”) in the same room that they test fire alarm equipment: the rest of the room is surrounded by wall-mounted circuit boards with das blinken-lightzen and wire leads running everywhere. This room contains all of the models the vendor installs I guess, ready for testing. Each device beeps evvery few seconds, for what reason I can’t even begin to guess.

Today we celebrate a day that is reliably predictable and observable - the autumnal equinox. Let us all share bad Falling-into-Fall jokes, remember our indian summers, our changing leaves, and share in a holiday that atheists, jews, christians, and muslims, asses and elephants, and rich and poor people would have to deny observation to disagree on!

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security is getting a bit of attention lately. Some groups get it, some miss the point as expected.

Sometimes, I really hate people.

At work, we moved to a new office at the beginning of the month. I got upgraded from cube-vill to a center-office with windows, and a door.

What does the following emoticon mean to you?

We are again hiring for helpdesk, network engineer and senior network engineer positions.

Jumping on.

Ah, it feels like 2002 around here.