Paco Hope

Out of Date I've quit using DenyHosts and started using SSHGuard.

I got an iPad 2 recently.

[][1] Swinging With the Finkels

I travel a lot and go to different countries fairly often.

My first trip to the middle east, my first trip to Israel.

I was looking for childrens beds recently, and I stumbled across Children’s Bed World.

I discovered stripgenerator.com.

I got a [Kindle][1] recently.

I found an old copy of Virtual PC I bought back when it was useful.

Ashley Mitchell, an IT professional from Paignton, Devon, England was recently charged with hacking Zynga’s Facebook poker game.

The Department of Homeland Security announced that it was discontinuing its color-coded security advisory system today.

I understand that people like different kinds of tones for their SMS alerts.

There has been a lot of backlash against the advanced imaging technology, and a lot of ink spilled both in favor and against, including an article suggesting that the technology might be unconstitutional.

When we need formal announcements, particularly in the US, we seem to feel compelled to use idiotic, artificial speech.

Most people have probably heard of Citirix’s GoToMeeting.

I’m not sure if this is a feature of the phone or the OS.

My friend Walt asked me if I had any quick impressions of England, now that I’ve lived here only a few months.

Whose roads these are I think I know.

I happened to go to (ISC)2’s web site and visit the member’s login page.

I’ve been contemplating the math that my microwave uses.

Time Warp Facebook is savvy about time zones and the fact that its users span the globe.

I’m in the UK for a couple weeks, so I got a T-Mobile GSM Broadband adapter.

There are tons of good reasons why so-called “security question” are terrible.

One of my vices lately, akin to the way some people read trashy romance novels, has been to hang around Yahoo!

Introduction I travel a lot and I care about the environment.

If you are an American who makes poor decisions, fear not.

I got an iPhone 3GS recently.

If you check out Neuton Mowers, they’re these battery-powered lawn mowers.

I did a Parody of Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.”

As you may know, I bought a Dell Inspiron mini 9-Inch to hackint0sh it.

There are a gazillion reviews for the latest Star Trek movie out there.

I’m starting to get a lot of Russian spam now.

In English, “see” and “look” have very similar meanings, while “oversee” and “overlook” have almost opposite meanings.

I’ve done a bunch of work in online poker lately (for Cigital), and so it’s important for me to improve my game to where I’m not just one of the fish.

I recently read Ari Takanen’s Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance.

I was just reading “Five Clues That You Are Addicted to Facebook” on cnn.com and it occured to me that Facebook should really be considered in the same light as television.

In my previous post I left off without telling you whether or not I successfully hacked my Dell Inspiron mini 9-Inch.

Several people I respect (notably Gary McGraw) as well as others that I don’t really know (e.g., the author of this blog post “5 reasons why software certs suck”), have argued vehemently against certifications recently.

When I read about getting a Dell Mini 9 for $200 and hackint0shing it to run Mac OS X, I was all over it.

Some colleagues of mine have recently published a book Implementing Automated Software Testing.

These are books that I frequently recommend in my childbirth class.

I now have a variety of applications that are incompatible with Mac OS X because I chose to install a case-sensitive filesystem 3 years ago when I got my Mac.

I was doing laundry this weekend.

Lots of my friends are filling out the X facts about me.

I went to pick up an eyetv hybrid from the mac section of Microcenter.

I’ve resisted for a long time, but now I just don’t have the time to resist.

Perl documentation has an annoying habit of pretending to give a good example, when it actually gives you a completely useless example.

There’s huge debate today about the fact that Barack Obama picked Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation.

I play a game on Facebook called “Pirates: Rule the Carribean.”

I could hardly have been more disappointed.