Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to catalana and hofdave!!! Hope it's a great one for you both!

Interests -- let's start a movement!

I have included the following paragraph in my bio, and added the appropriate interests.

Note on interests: Regardless of what ignorant morons have put as a "rule of thumb" in a sidebar to the interests list, the word "interest" does not mean "liking" or "approval". It means that I am interested in discussing a topic. For example, my interests list contains the word "censorship", which I thoroughly disapprove of. It also contains "La Marseillaise" in spite of the fact that the chorus could easily be misconstrued by ignorant morons as a death threat against my enemies. I don't necessarily approve of that sentiment; I just like the song. Got it?

Feel free to include this paragraph in your own profile, with or without credit. And if three people -- just three people -- put "La Marseillaise" in their interests lists, they just might think it's a movement...

Computer Forensics and Anti-Forensics

How Online Criminals Make Themselves Tough to Find, Near Impossible to Nab -- Good article on computer forensics and its limitations.

Despite all that, casting doubt over evidence is just a secondary benefit of antiforensics for criminals. Usually cases will never get to the legal phase because antiforensics makes investigations a bad business decision. This is the primary function of antiforensics: Make investigations an exercise in throwing good money after bad. It becomes so costly and time-consuming to figure out what happened, with an increasingly limited chance that figuring it out will be legally useful, that companies abandon investigations and write off their losses. Business leaders start to say, I cant be paying $400 an hour for forensics that arent going to get me anything in return, says Liu. The attackers know this. They contaminate the scene so badly youd have to spend unbelievable money to unravel it. They make giving up the smartest business decision.

Pretty sobering stuff.

Working offline

This article by Don Marti includes a useful list of tools for working offline -- without a net connection.

It's not just for working on airplanes -- we've all been in hotels with flaky or expensive connections. And it ties right in to what I've been saying about owning your own content.

Another well-written blast at 6A

See this post by czircon.

Despite the latest half-assed "apology", it doesn't look as though LJ is getting any of my respect, my trust or my money anytime soon.

Tracks! (finally)

Finally overcoming my laziness and the myriad distractions of Grand Central Starport and LJ, and getting back to work on CC&S. Callie and I gave it a close listen back on Monday; there were problems with almost everything, but mostly a lot of bass booming on the guitar. Applied some eq to "Cicero", "Mushrooms", "Stuck Here", and "Uncle Ernie's". So that's four out of 18.

I'm pretty seriously sleep-deprived at this point -- I'm going to take a warm bath and go to bed rather than risk screwing up on one of the tricky ones.