March 2009 Entries

ToorCamp 09 - I'm *SO* There

What do you get when you mix a bunch of techno-miscreants and a decommissioned Titan-1 Ballistic Missile Silo?  ToorCamp 2009, that's what. ToorCamp is the United State's first ever full-scale hacker camp. Modelled after the camps in Holland and Germany, ToorCamp will focus on all of the technology topics that ToorCon has become famous for but will expand out into other areas of society. ToorCamp will offer 2 days of talks on many different topics -- Security, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Hardware Hacking, and Privacy are just some of the areas we will be covering. ToorCamp will also feature 2 days of...

Of Cameras and Goodbye Parties

My soon-to-be coworkers recently threw me a goodbye party during my current visit to Seattle, as is the tradition among my people. At some point during the festivities, someone brought me an entirely too small pink tanktop and directed me to strip down and don it.  Having known these people for some time now, I knew refusal would get me nowhere, so I complied.  Naturally a camera was quickly unholstered to record the event for posterity.  I'm sure the pic was on various MySpace pages within the hour. As the pic made it rounds in the office the next day, my coworkers...