Posted May 30th, 2007 by
rybolov
“When I was a kid, I wasn’t a criminal but I sure did some things that I could have been sent to jail for.” –George H
George was my squad leader back in 1998.
I think it’s still apropos, only today instead of poaching salmon and doing unnatural acts with firecrackers, the kids have computers. =)
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Posted May 25th, 2007 by
rybolov
I’ve been taking vacation over the past week. I’ve been at use/lose with my vacation time since early last year, and I just can’t spend it fast enough. So I’m taking vacation and sitting at home playing games, fishing, and being a socialite. =)
Some of the highlights of vacationing:
- Wine-tasting at the Australian Embassy
- Vendor presentation from Verdasys and Dan Geer
- Teaching half a day with Potomac Forum
- Answering some work-related calls
- Rotting my brain and sharpening my reflexes thanks to Cedega
- Getting in some fishing
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Posted May 25th, 2007 by
rybolov
I just upgraded wordpress from V2.1.3 to V2.2. The old version had some XSS problems that were announced over the past week.
It’s a nice upgrade process. They even have a nice upgrade guide WordPress Upgrade Instructions.
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Posted May 22nd, 2007 by
rybolov
I grew up in the wilds of Idaho. I love the place, the people maybe not so much (OK, I’ll pick and choose the people) but I don’t think people really know how remote some parts of central Idaho are.
Central Idaho is the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. It’s the largest primitive area in the contiguous United States. Our county has one stoplight, and the next one is 150 miles away. The last hand-crank phone was decommissioned in 1991 in Shoup, a little town about 20 miles from where I lived. The interesting thing is that the road turns into dirt just below Shoup and then dead-ends at Corn Creek. The only way to get past that is to float down the river, ride a horse, or walk.
Pictures of my hometown, as huge as it is. There isn’t much else there. I had to ride the bus into Salmon to go to school, a commute of an hour each way.
Now the reason that I consider this to be quite fortuitous is because if I had a computer and a modem growing up, I would probably have been in jail at some time. I graduated high school in 1991, which puts me at the prime age to be one of the wardialers. Knowing my psychological profile, I was very much on the fast track to being one of the hacker kids. Living in the remoteness of Idaho probably saved me in some way.
Anyway, /me shrugs. =)
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Posted May 19th, 2007 by
rybolov
In order to get all my content spidered, I’m setting the blog pages and RSS feed up to be big this weekend. I’ll trim them back on Monday.
I also added a row of social networking bookmark widgets to each post in a shameless attempt to get a bit more traffic coming in. =)
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Posted May 1st, 2007 by
rybolov
I moved my blog to my own domain to save ISM-Community some licensing fees and because, well, I’m a bit of a control freak *gasp*.
The concept behind The Guerilla CISO is a bit of BOFH, a bit of ranting, and a bit of “do it this way because it works”. In other words, exactly what I would give somebody in person.
I’m slowly moving all the old content over and trying to keep at least the date of the original. I’ll lose all the comments and all of the content will be “stale”. At least it will get spidered soon enough.
It’s tough getting evicted. =)
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