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I received an email today telling me that I’ve been accepted to Startup School. This is a free one-day event hosted by Paul Graham’s YCombinator and the Harvard Computer Society. The school is geared toward youngish hackers that are interested in possibly starting a company one day. The list of invited speakers […]

The latest book I’ve been working on, Windows Server 2003 Security Cookbook, has been submitted to the O’Reilly production team and is expected to be in stores in December. For this book, Mike Danseglio, well-known security program manager from Microsoft, is the primary author and I’m the primary editor along with authoring some of […]

I used TripAdvisor extensively when doing research on hotels for my European vacation. Since I found the reviews so helpful, my wife and I agreed we should write our own reviews of the hotels we stayed at in Europe after we got back.
My wife wrote the reviews and I posted them. […]

When I first started my website back in 2003, I manually maintained a RSS file for the front page because I manually maintained all of my pages — I didn’t use a blogging app. Now that I’m using Blogger for the front page, I can add an Atom feed without any additional work. […]

My wife and I just got back from a two week vacation to southern France and northern Italy. We considered a bunch of different travel options, but eventually settled on staying in four hotels and using a rental car to get around for most of the trip.
Our first stop was Aix-en-Provence in […]

While at Foo Camp this year, Mike Hendrickson, Associate Publisher at O’Reilly, told me about a recent letter O’Reilly received. “Barry Cuda” wrote them about being unsatisfied with one of MY books: Windows Server Cookbook. Barry said he is a short-order cook and since he serves from a window and saw the baboon on […]