Went to the opening night of the Green Day tour at the Key Arena last night and had a great time.  I have to say that it wasn’t quite as good as the last time we saw them (Orlando in 2005), but it was a great gig those guys really know how to rock a [...]

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As I mentioned in the previous post, things have been quiet here for a while for various reasons, but one of them was I finally got away on vacation   Quite a long vacation in fact (a little over 3 weeks), but even that long was only just enough to scratch the surface and [...]

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Last post for 2008.  Have I really had this for (nearly) a whole year?  It certainly seems to have gone quick   92 posts, not quite the average of 2 a week, but pretty respectful considering I made a determined effort not to just (re)post about anything that came across my RSS aggregator.  Also [...]

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It’s been nearly a week since I got back from SDBP in Boston, but with the Seattle Death Plague (TM – DanK) that seems to be going round everyone, the most I’ve been able to do is my normal workday, let alone keeping up with all the other things.
In any case, first time I’ve been [...]

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Microsoft’s internal security conference BlueHat finished on Friday.  I posted earlier that I would do a write up about it, so I’ll briefly discuss the presentations I went to, and some of the other comings-and-goings of the conference.  I’m told that some of the presentations will be up on TechNet later, so look out for [...]

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Every now and then I get sent out on incident response engagements.  On Wednesday the phone rang; a client had contacted us with a big ongoing incident and needed some help.  I was on the next plane out (red-eye – I hate those things!).
While onsite with the client we went to a users desktop [...]

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Really, not much going on right now other than work!
After getting half unpacked there was a UWH class in DC that I had to go and deliver.  Never been to DC before, so that was going to be good even though I didn’t like leaving the new apartment half full with boxes.  Class was an [...]

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Well, the move to Seattle is on.  I’m going to be adding to this post as our road trip progresses, and then put it up online when we’ve finally made it.  Click the day headings for the route(s) we took.

Day 1

Movers turned up at 8am with, as usual, a giant truck.  I’m always impressed (even [...]

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Tara and I went up to LA for perhaps the last time on Sunday to see Nic, do some shopping, and generally hang out.  Had a really good day so I though I would share some photos.
First up, driving out to Santa Monica we noticed that Rodeo Drive was shut with lots of people milling [...]

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Finally got back home on Thursday, unpacked, washing done, and slowly adjusting to the PST timezone – 15+ hours with an 13 hour flight really plays havoc with ones internal clock, especially when flying east (flying west I never seem to have as much trouble with).
Anyway, as mentioned in previous posts, my wife and I [...]

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