siqpolicyd released

siqpolicyd just had its first “release”. I originally wrote it for myself (and ran it on NSE’s mail server) but since people started asking about it, I thought I’d make a (minimal) page and a tarball release. Grab it, play with it, break it, let me know :)

For the record

This post is here to certify that I said, in a meeting with somebody that shall remain unnamed and April, something like the following: “Give her data and servers and she will find patterns. I don’t know how she does it” (referring to April). There is no (and there will be no) audio recording of [...]

If it works, it’s obsolete (or a Mac)

I think I’ve become a Machead. I’ve been using my Powerbook G4 for about 4 months now, and I really like it. So much, that I’m going to get a Mac desktop at home (probably an iMac, not sure yet).

Sure, there’s quite a few people that like to run around insisting that OS X [...]

Surprising fact about the US Copyright office

One of the really nice things about Google is that we have a lof of internal “tech talks” — either by our engineers or by various guests (you can see most of the non-confidential ones on Google Video – just search for “google engedu“).

So anyway, yesterday we had some nice folks from the US [...]

Week summary

Ok, I’ve been lazy and haven’t posted much lately. So sue me.

Lots of things happened this week. Most notable:

April arrived in the area for the MAAWG conference. I finally met her after working together for almost 5 years. Went together to a couple meetings and met a bunch of interesting people working on [...]

Computer history museum

Went to visit the Computer History Museum today (it turns out that it’s within walking distance from where I’m staying). Free entrance, and fascinating content — almost everything from an abacus to one of the first Google server racks. Highly recommended to visit if you ever come near the Bay Area.