I've been meaning to write something here for a while, but you know, life keeps on happening. I was going to announce that I'm going to Sweden, but now I've left Sweden. I was there speaking at Sec-T, got interviewed by the press, and was randomly invited to a rave out in the middle of the woods - but still within public transit access, since this ( Read more... )

I caught a sinus-cold/flu/infection/something; It seems that I only post on LJ when I'm ill. [Probably because it's the only time when I have time.] Well, actually that's not entirely true. Other than a few outings, I've been being a hermit the last few months. I'm just emotionally burnt out, or it's seasonal depression, or (as I believe) ( Read more... )

Stuff D700, photo, October 2008, Janurary 2009, Berlin, Germany, Brussles, wedding, 25C3, Maastrict, Liege, Further Confusion, furry, Belgium Julia Wolf Julia Wolf image/jpeg 2008

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I got violently ill again last night, and while puking my guts out on the side of the road (I couldn't reach anywhere else in time.) My phone fell out of my pocket, and hit the cement. It also got a few drops of vomit on it, so I had to clean it. And I think that when I cleaned it off, I accidentally got water in it, and shorted something out. ( Read more... )

A question I am frequently asked is: What do you do for a living?

I'll usually say something like I'm a malware analyst. - although that's an incomplete answer. And they'll say What's malware? And I'll try to explain it to them, but they're too impatient for more than a one sentence explanation. And so I say stuff about hacking and computer ( Read more... )

I usually wake up in the morning with a random song stuck in my head. Most of the time it's something pretty good, like Tori Amos or Smashing Pumpkins (like this morning), since I mostly listen to good music. But every now and then, I'll wake up with something like the Gilligan's Island Theme Song stuck in my head. Why? Why? Why does this happen? I ( Read more... )