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Tonight my wife and I went out for dinner in celebration of my 39th birthday. It was delicious and the food was good too. I am truly blessed to have such a wonderful loving wife and beautiful family. So tomorrow begins my 40th year. What will it hold for me and what will I bring to the table?

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While walking to the grocery store tonight I was again struck by the feeling that I'm lucky to be living in this place at this time. I was after cat food and honey and against better judgment, I wore headphones and listened to David Shenk's The Immortal Game: A History of Chess. As a technologist who loves Chess, I enjoyed this book thoroughly and keep putting it back on my play list. To be

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Until recently I've lived my life without much planning. I've taken it one day at a time. Since I started commuting 90 minutes a day to and from work, I've been listening to lots of audio books while driving. For the most part, I listen to non-fiction books; books about history, business and self-improvement. One common thread in the self-improvement titles I've listened to is that success

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I've been listening to David McCullough's book on John Adams as I've been working on my house. What an amazing life. The thing I love most is how they wrote to one another. Their letters flow so beautifully, effortlessly and the phrases they turn bring a smile to my face. If only we had mastery over the language as they had. I suppose we can blame our lack of reading for the demise of the written

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I'm happy to say that I'll again be Mentoring SANS Security 508: Computer Forensics, Investigations and Response in Kansas City, beginning in late January and finishing up in early April. It's going to a great time. If you or someone you know is interested, please check it out and pass along the word.

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Life has been busy for the last few months. For those who don't know, I left the University of Kansas where I had worked for nearly 12 years. I am back in information security full time. And it's good. I may have mentioned this previously, but I was exchanging email's with Ed Skoudis and mentioned my return to info sec. His reply was brilliant, "Welcome to the desert of the real." It certainly

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Neighbor's son having four boys over for his birtday. This is an awesome place to raise kids.

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Put up my first blog post over at the Trusted Signal Blog. I saw that SANS' Network Security 2008 in Las Vegas is going to have what's sure to be an awesome keynote by Ed Skoudis and Kevin Johnson on combining traditional and web application penetration testing. As someone who has done a fair amount of web application pen testing over the years and virtually no traditional penetration testing,

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Spent most of the weekend working on the house. We're painting. Finally have a color to two that we both can agree on. This weekend was The Last HOPE conference in NYC. Wish I could have gone. Instead I followed some of the Twitterers at the conference. Big thanks to quine and spacerog for their efforts. I won't make it to Black Hat or Defcon either this year.

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Summer is flying by and I haven't been to the pool yet. When I was a child, I lived at the pool in the summer time. Where does the time go? Grant and Chuck and I were on the swim team, friends with lifeguards and complete pool rats. As I think of those days now, racing bicycles through the streets, over the canal route and through the park to get to the pool, I can't help but smile and feel

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Again from a fellow Obama supporter trying to convince him to not support the pending FISA legislation in the Senate. Begin forwarded message: From: "Alexis N. Mueller " Date: July 8, 2008 15:29:06 CDT To: Senator Obama - Please Vote NO on Telecom Immunity - Get FISA Right Subject: [SenatorObama-PleaseVoteAgainstFISA] Re: RE: Why Won't Barack Obama Call Me Personally and explain Every Single

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Good piece here about the on going FISA & retroactive immunity for the telcos.http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/05/monarchy/index.HTML

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This is forwarded without permission, sorry, from a mailing list or as part of an open letter from supporters of Obama to Obama. These folks are against retroactive immunity for telcos which would let those telcos off the hook for helping the government tap our phones, read our emails, see what web sites we visit, etc. Maybe I'll give my throw away vote to Ralph Nader. Begin forwarded message:

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Every where we went people looked at us like we were nuts and I could hear them whispering, "They must have had to adopt to get a boy."

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Well, the battle is finally over and those who favor the liberty of individuals over the spies of the government have lost. While the American people concerned with the issue weren't looking, members of the House rushed through legislation that finally gave the telecoms what they have been paying House members for for months -- blanket immunity for illegally spying on thousands, possibly millions

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Another day in tornado alley.

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Saw this while walking to the beer barn tonight. I knew a couple avid Nordic Trac users a few years back. Both paid what seemed to this then starving student, a lifetime's wages.Now they're destined for the dump.My inner-maker has a hard time passing up this find. Alas I've more junk than time.

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