• Dark Rain

    [This was originally published on attrition.org.] The alley stretched out forever in both directions. Dirty old alley lamps created an eerie lighting effect in the pouring rain. Derek had been walking for nearly an hour before he finally stopped. He pushed his lips together and tilted his head back, bathing his face in the downfall.…

  • mv index.new index.html (a look at web defacement)
    mv index.new index.html (a look at web defacement)

    [This was originally published on Hacker News Network (HNN), Hacker’s Club, and mirrored on attrition.org.] Introduction Browsing the web, enjoying your time, nothing better to do. Casual search for something interesting to read, or maybe even a little research for a project or term paper. Click here, click there, link from site to site. Some…

  • Poetry: best friends

    [This was originally published on attrition.org. The exact publication date is not known.] circle of light, lasting solitude, wretched am i for all the pains, suffer this indignity pointless recoil on open paper, as if to say to justify all that i am not shallow needy words to pamper tired egos not wanting to get…

  • Chain of Command

    [This was originally published on Aviary Magazine and mirrored on attrition.org. The exact publish date has been lost.] Since November of 1998 I have learned a lot of things in relation to the Internet, administrators, etiquette, and more. The biggest lesson I have learned is that I am far more tolerant than these high and…

  • The Power of One… How distributed computing can change the world.

    [This was originally published on Aviary Magazine and mirrored on attrition.org. The exact publish date has been lost.] October 19, 1999 – John Jackson of Montreal, Canada discovered the first million digit Mersenne prime number. John enjoyed the $50,000 reward and had his name added to the history books for his mathematical accomplishment. March 18,…

  • Disclosure: Possible problems with ‘sudo’ package

    During a recent client assessment, I discovered what I thought to be a bug in the ‘sudo’ package. After further investigating and talking with Todd C. Miller (the maintainer of ‘sudo’), I was informed that it was not a bug, but expected behavior under a default install. The reason for this post it to make…

  • Poetry #27: nom

    [This was originally published in F.U.C.K. poetry Issue #27. The publish date is approximate.] what’s in a name you ask? far from divine, it begs why not what culture has deemed so much wrong we go tiptoing through life, trying.. not to disappoint not to let down not to.. my ruling passion is spilled out…

  • #563: can it feel this wrong?

    [F.U.C.K. is an e-zine that I started on January 24, 1993 and ended on January 24, 2000. One concept is that articles should be timeless if possible, so they were not released with dates. As such, the date on this blog is not exact but I will try to use a date as close as…

  • #549: guilt in three parts

    [F.U.C.K. is an e-zine that I started on January 24, 1993 and ended on January 24, 2000. One concept is that articles should be timeless if possible, so they were not released with dates. As such, the date on this blog is not exact but I will try to use a date as close as…

  • Black and White

    [This was originally published in Underground Experts United Issue #440 and mirrored on attrition.org. The exact publish date is not known.] The world is grey. I see everything as it is, people for who they are. Nothing escapes my eyes. I can’t begin to comprehend the idea of color. Color seems like the perfect way…