Dinis Cruz did
a presentation at OWASP recently
on why security should be invisible to developers.

His basic idea is that security is for security people and building things
is for people who build things. He says that …

Caution, anecdotes ahead.

I was reading some symptoms of ADD today and was stunned by the fact that
they all were the exact symptoms of not having enough discipline in a
household.

doesn’t pay attention
doesn’t follow-t…

I had an interesting idea this weekend regarding the effect that having
children has on one’s life views.

I was talking to a friend of mine about what our plans were for ten and
twenty years from now, and he basically said …

There was
a recent article on the New York Times regarding free will. I posted it here earlier and I just finished posting a comment in the
thread. It follows below:

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Millions of us know the trick of getting our public IP address. Most go to
ipchicken or the site aptly called “whatismyip”. Well, Google just made all
that unnecessary.

You can now just search for ‘ip’ (yes, two letters) an…

Anyone who does web security testing knows that the browser is the most
important tool in the arsenal. Scanners are nice and can help save time, but
no technology is the equal of manually making requests to a page while
passing t…

So you’ve replaced Apache with
Nginx, or put
Varnish
out in front of your main webserver. Or maybe you just spent time converting
all your main site images to
CSS Data URLs. Either way, you’re now ready to taste the fruit…

I recently read perhaps the best book ever written on the American class
system, and it set me to thinking quite a bit about the subject.

First, I put
this
together as a capture location for what I learned.

Th…

I think a lot about why some people are highly productive and successful
while others produce nothing in their lifetimes. Some get Ph.Ds and spend
their time writing books, giving talks, and working on their next big idea.
Others…

This will be rough.

I’ve always been attracted to the idea of identifying unifying
characteristics of desired society, and defining those ideals as sacred to
the group that embraces them. The Constitution does this, of course, but …