Mandatory States for Human Happiness
I’ve been thinking recently about what states of being are required for optimum health. A few things bring this on: 1) Paul Graham’s writing on…
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An HTML 5 Christmas | Daniel Miessler
It’s Christmas day and I just happened upon a post by the Google Webmaster team talking about removing the HTML, HEAD, and BODY tags from…
3 Trends for an Advancing Human Civilization
One of my favorite things about true learning is that it magnifies itself. True understanding doesn’t just teach you about the topic at hand, it…
A Collection (of Collections) of Obama’s Accomplishments
This next year is going to yield many debates on what our current President has or has not accomplished in his first term. Here’s a…
Why Christopher Hitchens Inspires Me
News of Christopher Hitchens’ death was crushing to me last night. I can think of no other author that is so inspiring to me. Here…
Observations of Japan | Daniel Miessler
I had the opportunity to go to Tokyo, Japan for a week this month for work and while there I kept a running list of…
Who Makes the Best Web Security Testers?
There’s been some debate in my circles recently on the topic of what type of person and background makes the best web security tester. The…
Plane Crashes and Child Molestation
In one of Malcolm Gladwell’s books he talked about how respect for authority has caused a massive number of plane crashes over time. Basically, the…
A Civilization Manifesto
This will be rough. I’ve always been attracted to the idea of identifying unifying characteristics of desired society, and defining those ideals as sacred to…
Visualizing Interesting Log Events Using Splunk’s Google Maps Application
I never stop being fascinated by the fact that web admins have boxes online that anyone in the world can reach out and touch. Visualizing…
A Depressing Truth About Friendship in Adulthood
One of the most depressing things in life is not being able have all your friends from various phases of your life meet and spend…
Handling Redirects with Varnish and Nginx
[ NOTE: I am now using Nginx for everything, i.e. not using Varnish anymore, and getting the same or better results. ] I run Varnish…