Well, what an interesting weekend. A cold, working like a slave, and one of my co-workers is a father for the first time (Congrats, Ty!). But that’s not the most interesting news. I will be taking sole ownership of my forum, Aussieveedubbers, sometime this week. This means that I will have to spend a bit…
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Texas School Board of Education ^W Dumbasses
SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! Texas’ Board of Education will be ridiculed by pretty much everyone (including me in this post). I would make more fun of them if the consequence of their gross incompetence didn’t lead directly to irreparable harm to the next ten year’s worth of students who will be unemployable in any medical, bio medical, biology, DNA testing,…
Baby Girl Makes 21,710,079
Mackenzie is now an Australian citizen. Awesome.
The new dark ages are approaching
When I left for America, I was surprised at how few places accepted electronic payment methods compared to our experience in Australia. By the time we left the USA barely two years later, that was not a problem – almost everywhere took cards. Except … now, we’re back in Australia, and things have gone backward….
Back in Australia
It’s a bit of a shock coming back. Some things are the same, many things are very different. I had been homesick for some time, and I was glad to meet up with my family and my cat(s). Unfortunately, Greebo either did not remember me or worse, didn’t want to talk to me. Meebles was not…
Speaking at OWASP AU
I will be speaking at OWASP AU 2009 this year! I am conducting a one day training session on how to BUILD secure applications using ESAPI and verifying the same using Application Security Verification Standard (OWASP ASVS). If you are a builder, you will want to attend that class, which is very reasonably priced at…
Andrew: Cultural Learnings of America Benefit Glorious Nation of Australia
Well, it’s time to go home. We’re leaving the USA at the end of the month, and should be back in Australia February 2-4. It’s going to be a bit busy over the next few weeks whilst we pack, sell all our worldly goods, and organize our new life in Australia. I’ve had a blast whilst in the USA,…
2009 – The Year of WebAppSec Solutions
“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future” – Orwell, 1984 Looking back at the last few years, we’ve made some huge leaps at swatting at issues that bit us in back in the past, but still have not made a huge fundamental leap to controlling the…
Santy Paws Came To Town
Well, that was a blast. On Wednesday afternoon, I took Baby Girl to see Santy Paws (Satan Claws or Santa Claus, depending on if you believe in Ceiling Cat, Basement Cat, or are just a plain pagan). We stood in line for close to three hours. There was one Santa’s helper on duty, and for…
A review of 2008
Last year, I made the following observations / resolutions. Let’s check out how well I did: Be a good dad to Mackenzie my gorgeous daughter, and a wonderful (hopefully less chubby) hubby to Tanya, my beautiful wife. I think I succeeded at this one Lose some weight and mean it this time. What New Year’s…