• Poetry: Resting, a shade of sleep
    Poetry: Resting, a shade of sleep

    Resting, a shade of sleepThinking of the fundamentalBeat of my soulMusic playing an audibleMirror to what i feelLack of respect in a flagrantAnd broken thoughtMore time to watch the ceilingFan spin round, againHead splitting, stomach churningJaw aching, simple frustrationTo those would try to fixMy problems… give upFor i too was a fixer so long ago

  • Poetry #48: setback

    [This was originally published in F.U.C.K. poetry Issue #48. The publish date is approximate.] i feel this hurt alone gentle charisma lost on yesterday sentinel of truth spat on and kicked belief in purity stumbles on a bit of trouble gained from each triumph

  • Should you spy on your employees?

    [This was originally published on IBM Developer Works.] Should you spy on your employees?Why, when, and how to electronically monitor your staff Brian MartinDSIC Security GroupFebruary 2001 If you run a warehouse, you can spot pilfering by the number of empty boxes, or perhaps by noticing that employees are walking out with TV sets on…

  • Poetry #46: still frame life

    [This was originally published in F.U.C.K. poetry Issue #46. The publish date is approximate.] lively animation of still frame life unfocused anticipation, for the personification of the culmination of times past face the hardship as a soldier facing his shadow knowing it is only the harbinger of ill times

  • Movie Review: Mission to Mars

    [This was originally published on attrition.org.] Mars is one of the many recent space exploration movies, focused on the exploration/colonization of the planet Mars. The mystical red planet with the oh so famous ‘face‘ that lead people to wonder about ancient alien civilizations. Anyway, on to the movie… As with any movie remotely technical or…

  • Movie Review: The Replacements

    [This was originally published on attrition.org.] When this movie came out, I quickly dismissed it as a movie I could live without. You have a sports reject team put together (Major League turned football), and Keanu Reaves (Dude..). These two thrown together didn’t seem like a winner pick at the time. Months later and one…

  • Defacement-Commentary Address

    [This was originally published on attrition.org.] “CyberWar Rages in the Middle East!!! YOUR Servers could be next!!!“ This is the kind of crap coming out of so-called security companies and news media lately. The real irony is that they are using data from the Attrition web defacement mirror to support their hyped conclusions. Let’s take…

  • Convict them all! A new breed of ambulance chasers

    [This is a rebuttal/rant in which I ‘reply’ to various parts of a news article, originally published on attrition.org. This version has been updated for style.] Computer crime: Changing the public’s perception12 Oct 2000https://seclists.org/isn/2000/Oct/51 You remember Jonathan James? He made national news a couple of weeks ago. You know, he’s that nice 16-year-old young man…

  • Screw the thief. Convict the state department morons…

    [This is a rebuttal/rant in which I ‘reply’ to various parts of a news article, originally published on attrition.org. This version has been updated for style.] Desperate US offers 25,000 dollars for missing State Department laptophttps://seclists.org/isn/2000/Aug/53 (Original now 404)Thursday, August 10 4:20 AM SGT WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (AFP) – Apparently frustrated and desperate for leadsafter…