NYC

dr_memory reminds me what is so great about NYC.

Chickens enter video contest

If you don’t read Savage Chickens (savage_chickens) comic, you should.

Now check out this video he’s done for a contest: more info

Another great idea I had that was ignored... sort of.

Microsoft is reaping the benefit of taking security seriously by using a plan of attack that I wrote a paper about in early 2002. I’m not saying they stole it; I’m saying that it was obvious enough that they came up with it too. The paper never saw the light of day because I submitted it to the Usenix Security Conference and it was rejected.

I wish I had the rejection letter. The committee’s feedback was that they couldn’t see how it would be useful (but I can’t remember the exact words they used).

This morning I spent some time searching my old email archives and it looks like I deleted everything older than 2004. Ugh.

Is it too egotistical to think that if the paper had been accepted at the conference then this might be called “The Limoncelli Model” and others would have used it?

(and like a fool, I didn’t think to include this material in the next edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration!)