Paco Hope

I keep coming back to the gunpolicy.org chart of Australia gun deaths.

I get into a lot of conversations with folks about guns.

Someone brought me some data yesterday where they wanted to graph some data that included sizes of files.

Because Cigital is virtually always hiring people, I get a lot of calls from enterprising recruiters.

This article (Yes, the media bears some responsibility for the rise of Donald Trump) got me thinking about the American desire for stuff to be free (news, social media, online services).

It’s a Schrödinger’s Cat dilemma.

Here’s a service I want someone to build.

I’ve seen a few discussions of this story of a licensed, clearly competent pharmacist who shoots and kills a would-be armed robber.

I’m playing FTL: Faster Than Light on my iPad.

I am increasingly perplexed that anyone ever watches TV news any more.

I have found what I think are the most perfect headphones (MA750i from RHA).

When I’m out of the office and running my Mac on batteries, I turn off Bluetooth networking to save power.

I don’t review games much.

There’s an amusing saying about alternative medicine: “What do they call alternative medicine that has been proven to work?

I have a travel card for London’s Underground.

If you haven’t seen some of the great comedy videos made with “text-to-video” software Plotagon (or its predecessor Xtra Normal), you should.

I fly United a fair bit, I’m up to like 500,000 lifetime miles.

So years after its release, I finally saw the movie Avatar.

I’ve got BT Infinity for Business as my home Internet connection.

This sounds flip, but it really is an honest reflection on a zillion articles I have read about how to beat procrastination.

I moved all my data from one mac laptop to another.

We watched the Andy Murray Wimbledon final via DVR.

I recently signed up for a credit card.

I help write lots of “assessment questions”—some are for quizzes after courses, others are just review questions during courses.

The folks at The H Security blog have made much ado about nothing in warning that “Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write”.

I blogged a bit about ever more reasons why software should be secured at the beginning of the lifecycle, not at the end.

There was an article in the Economist ("In praise of a second (or third) passport; Multiple identities are natural.

As the father of a few boys, Legos are a part of our lives.

I just lost my main hard drive in my Mac Pro.

Every so often I moan about things that Apple still doesn’t do on the iPhone that folks like Nokia have done for years.

I’m finally getting a handle on my old home movies.

I’ve been thinking about zombies a lot lately because we’ve been watching The Walking Dead (which I quite like).

We, as security professionals, have to raise our game.

I gave a talk at the Security B-Sides in London entitled “Randomness: Too Important to Leave to Chance”.

There is a presentation tool out there called Prezi.

Right up front let me tell you that I don’t have a link where you can click and download the ring tones.

I’ve just spent about 10 minutes going through the Apple App store looking at photography apps.

I use a Vodafone K3505 dongle on Vodafone UK’s network.

I do a lot of banking by mail—mainly depositing checks that I receive in the mail.

I hate the crapware that comes with modern toys.

This isn’t a post advertising one thing or another, but I was really surprised at the difference in prices when doing some Christmas shopping online today.

The folks over at IT Pro had their IT Pro Awards 2011 recently.

The restrictions feature of iOS 5 are pretty weak.

I noticed the RSS Reader feature on my iPad after I upgraded to iOS 5.

Like many people, I upgraded to iOS 5 on my iDevices very soon after it came out.

Thanks to Dave Coppit showing it to me, I am now the proud owner of an AeroPress coffee maker.

I’ve got a few iDevices (iPad, iPhone) and I realise that this is the “post-PC” era, and the devices are just being invented.

This may sound horrible, but the riots will have an affect on the economy.

I just got a bluetooth keyboard for my iPad, and I have to say it makes the iPad much more functional as a laptop replacement.

I wanted to do something pretty straightforward, theoretically.