Results of Vegan December

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

As some of you know, I decided to go vegan for the month of December just to try it out and see what all the hype was.  This morning was my final weigh-in for this vegan experiment and I must say the results were really impressive. First off, those who know ...

W3 Total Cache

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

I'm trying out a new caching plugin for Wordpress called W3 Total Cache and so far I am very impressed.  PC Sympathy is now running it and using Amazon Cloudfront as the CDN.  I see a tremendous improvement over the other caching plugins.  Here's some bullet points for W3 Total ...

InfoSec Snobs

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

I've read two articles recently that helps validate what I've been noticing since I joined Twitter and started listening to Security podcasts to gain more information in the field.  I keep seeing posts and hearing comments from certain people (no names will be mentioned but most of you will know ...

A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Here is another awesome blog post from Jeff Moser over at Moserware.  It's literally a stick figure guide to AES.  A must-read.  Even if you don't quite understand it. http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html

Facebook makes you smarter, Twitter makes you dumber

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Have you ever written a text message and then failed to correctly multiply 3 by 7 right after you pressed "send"?Have you ever posted an update on Facebook and instantly reached for your Proust? And have you ever sent a tweet, looked in the mirror, and suddenly believed that you ...