Still going after all these years.
If you had told me five years ago that almost every lunch out I ate while at the office would be vegetarian, I would have asked you where you left your marbles. It’s no secret that I love food. For many years at the office that translated to food runs for lunch that ended at … Continue reading “In clover”
It seems I’m falling into a pattern where at least one day a week, I will end up posting for two days worth of material. This is one of those days. At least I have a good excuse for not posting. It was Veracode’s Hackathon IX this week, and that means craziness. Monday’s activity? Live-action Pac-Man. What … Continue reading “Never too late to have a happy childhood”
Practical Return-Oriented Programming Even in OSes with fully randomized address spaces and data execution protection, you can use return oriented programming to patch together malicious code from sequences of instructions that are in memory from common executables (“ransom note exploits”). The lesson: shift the game from focusing on injection vulnerabilities to minimizing the damage an … Continue reading “Ransom note exploits”
Googler ships exploit to defeat ASLR+DEP | Zero Day | ZDNet.com Address space randomization and data execution protection are no longer sufficient to keep buffer overflows from being exploited. (tags: security windows google) Guru of Gang Starr in coma after heart attack – Boing Boing Bad, bad news. Here’s hoping we get Guru back soon. … Continue reading “Grab bag: Mitigation unmitigated”
Yesterday was our “day off” between the Mass in C performance on Friday night and today’s 9th Symphony performance. Of course, the “day off” included the morning’s orchestra dress rehearsal of the 9th, which was a treat to be a part of. We had the best seat in the house to watch guest conductor Christoph … Continue reading “Beethoven 9th rehearsal: snapping back heads”
Minuteman Bikeway Rail Trail Blogging an attempt to inline skate the Minuteman Trail and the rest of the rail line. (tags: arlington blog) Remembering Rauschenberg – Hoefler & Frere-Jones The Hoefler contribution to the RR fest. (tags: obit rauschenberg) Soho the Dog: Combine Matthew Guerrieri’s tribute to Rauschenberg. (tags: rauschenberg obit) Talking Points Memo | … Continue reading “links for 2008-05-14”
My current employer is built around a couple of concepts: certain kinds of needs are better served on demand than by buying a tool, and certain kinds of software testing (in our case, application security testing) can be automated. There are other concepts that come into our business model, but those are kind of at … Continue reading “Automated application testing has deep roots”
Thinking about John reminded me to look up some of my other authors from the first three issues. Mohit Bhasin, whom I served badly with a poor choice of anatomical clip art next to his poem in the first issue, appears to have kept up his dual pursuit of literature and medicine. Laura MacCleery is … Continue reading “Rag & Bone class of 1992-1993”
Last night I came home from the second of three performances of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé with the BSO (the third is tomorrow night at Carnegie Hall), and stopped on the way to pick up eggs and bread for breakfast. Since the concert went until after 10 and I live in Arlington, it was almost … Continue reading “Putting James Levine in his place”
Last year it was a mild and easy meal, the year before an epic battle, the year before that a show-off feast, and in 2002 and 2001 we helped out in other people’s kitchens. For this, the fourth Thanksgiving in a row we’ve hosted and the sixth since I started blogging in 2001, we’re playing … Continue reading “T2006: The Rise of the Turkey”
After nine and a half months (!) of progress, two hard drives with a total of three-quarters of a terabyte of usable space, and over a thousand CDs, my project to rip all my CDs to losslessly compressed digital files is finished. There are other projects ahead, metadata updates (I have over two thousand tracks … Continue reading “The Great CD Lossless Ripping Project: Final Tally”
It’s nice to kind of be back in the US. My VP of sales and I are in the Summer Shack in Logan’s Terminal A, after a fun day of travel that included the following: A brisk cold shower at 4:30 am Austrian time A 3 hour drive from our hotel in Austria to the … Continue reading “Back on terra firma”
I have now figured out the secret of surviving a Tanglewood residency. It involves a car, a map, and an Internet connection. To back up: I had a hazy, mystical picture of life at Tanglewood prior to arriving here, including random music clinics with the famous and artistic; brushes with genius at every turn; and … Continue reading “Beerhunting along Route 7”
According to MSNBC, which has journalistic : apparently today, January 24, is “statistically” the most depressing day of the year. I love the “model” that Dr. Cliff Arnall (a “specialist in seasonal disorders” at the University of Cardiff, Wales) devised to calculate this phenomenon: I decided to try this formula out, but I quickly ran … Continue reading “(Not) the most depressing day of the year”
Back last winter, I wrote about submitting some photos to the SENT camera-phone exhibition. The exhibition, which combines works by invited artists and celebrities as well as thousands of submissions by the public, is finally going to happen, starting July 10 in Los Angeles. You can even look at some of the public submissions online, … Continue reading “SENT finally going live”