http://www.greebo.net mostly useless crap from me Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:25:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, I've had the snip, which apparently is surprising to most of the folks who know us. Both Tanya and I are pretty darn clucky. We want more kids. But there's this huge issue we can't get past - Tanya's health is just not going to get any better any time ... http://www.greebo.net/2008/07/04/had-the-snip/ I've been busy over the weekend. I met with Blake Turrentine at a diner near where I live. We had a good long discussion over breakfast on the future of the Guide 3.0. The Guide 3.0 will be about how to design apps and code securely. That's it. Only positive controls will ... http://www.greebo.net/2008/05/19/owasp-guide-30-and-coding-guide-2009-start/ We took Mackenzie to the pediatricians today. She did real well - even the vaccinations she only screamed for a few minutes.  Here's a few very recent photos for you! [gallery] The first image is her sitting. By herself. At 3 and 3/4 months. The second image is her out on the porch wearing ... http://www.greebo.net/2008/04/11/best-daughter-ever/ In other news, all my talks for OSCON were rejected again. Why did I bother? I should have paid attention my last year's rant. Most likely, I will have to give up on submitting papers to certain open source developer's conferences as honestly, why bother doing the work of doing ... http://www.greebo.net/2008/04/02/feelings-of-rejection/ I'm currently in Colorado Springs doing some training for a customer. The flight in was long - nearly 12 hours all up from the east coast, all told including delays and running to make my little rubber band plane connection. It takes only another 15 hours to make it to ... http://www.greebo.net/2008/04/02/colorado-springs/ Jim asked a great question - what is the current state of the nation for HttpOnly? I’m glad he asked! Pass - read/write cookie protection IE 7.0 Firefox >= 2.0.0.5 Firefox 3.0 beta Camino 1.5.4 Barely Pass - read only cookie protection IE 6.0 Opera 9.50 beta Fail - no cookie protection Safari 3.1 Firefox < 2.0.0.5 Opera 9.2.6 (currently shipping stable ... http://www.greebo.net/2008/03/25/httponly-update/ I'm working (slowly) on porting ESAPI to PHP. This will be great! So just in case I keep on having a life after hours, Jeff kindly created an ESAPI for PHP project. If you care about PHP security, come help us finish the port. It's only 3900 lines of code, and I've ported like a 1000 ... http://www.greebo.net/2008/03/21/esapi-for-php-is-go/ I am a bit of a science freak. I play experiments with myself to see which things work, and get rid of things that don't. For example, since becoming diabetic I've tested the following things: The effect on my favorite breakfasts on my post meal blood sugar level. It turns out that ... http://www.greebo.net/2008/01/28/results-not-typical-evidence-based-weight-loss/ In 2007, I realized I am not particularly good at prioritizing what time I have available. In true geek style, over the Christmas break I looked at all the recent time management fads to ensure I picked the laziest/easiest/geekiest (pick two), and found 43 Folders, which is based upon a ... http://www.greebo.net/2008/01/02/fresh-starts-and-modest-changes-dmz-e-mail-day/ It's that time of the year again. In my previous list, it turned out I did some of the things I said I would, and a lot more besides. In 2008, my desires are: Be a good dad to Mackenzie my gorgeous daughter, and a wonderful (hopefully less chubby) hubby to Tanya, ... http://www.greebo.net/2007/12/30/sayonara-2007-konnichiwa-2008/