This makes me ill, for so many reasons. More later.

I'm up to around 250 CDs in my music collection these days.  Well, 220 if you throw out the duplicates like the 3 copies of Hole's Live Through This or my 2 copies of Radiohead's OK Computer.  (I can't really explain why I have 3 copies of Live Through This, it wasn't label trickery like that Radiohead boondoggle.) Recently I've been on a kick to archive them all in Windows Media Player format.  There are a couple reasons for this.  First, my new Jeep is so insecure, I don't even bother locking the doors.  Remember the bike locks that can be...

I can't sleep and something has gone horribly wrong with the Everquest 2 servers, so I figured I'd do some late-night blogging.  I'm also halfway through ripping my CD collection with Media Player, but that's another show... err, topic. First order of business was to update the conference listing on the right-hand side of the page.  These are conferences that are going to be held in the Pacific Northwest (and Vancouver BC) in the next few months. The first is the Directory Experts Conference (DEC), which will be in Vancouver BC during the ides of March.  This conference focuses on Active Directory security.  This includes securing...

A whopping 5 posts in November.  Yeah, I know.  You should see how badly I'm neglecting my email. I've been in a funk lately.  It comes around this time every year, pretty much.  Holidays are a trial for me, mostly because holidays are about family more than anything, and my family is far away and I won't see them.  Most holidays I'd prefer to spend in bed with a pillow over my head, hoping they'll pass before I regain consciousness.  Even though I treasure my wife's family (there's roughly a billion of them, and they all live locally), it's hard to spend the day...

Dave Aitel from Immunity Inc stopped by to mention that CORE actually released the WINS vulnerability the day before Immunity's release went to press.  The first news I saw about it (I guess I'm not subscribed to the right lists) was the Immunity announcement.  but if you go to CORE's site, they definitely published on Thanksgiving day. I still think Immunity could have waited until Monday to share the technical details of the vulnerability with the world.