Why Your Website Needs a “Discovered Content” Section
One of the advantages of social content sharing is that if I like what you write then there’s a good chance I’ll like what you…
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A Word on my Distaste for Conditional Friendship
One thing that bothers me severely is the concept of a conditional friendship. There are a few ways these come about, but the most common…
News Entertainment: The Latest Chapter of Greed and Stupidity
Sometime within the last couple months I’ve realized that CNN and Fox (and most cable news channels) have become news entertainment. The reason for this…
What’s Your Favorite Pen? | Daniel Miessler
I like pens. I’m a Moleskine fan (yeah, one of those guys), and I like having writing utensils that match the class of that surface.…
NYC Crime Visualizations | Daniel Miessler
Few things get me as excited as data visualization. I seriously love the stuff, and this project by the New York Times is excellent. It…
Redirecting a Domain Using .htaccess
Here’s how to redirect from one domain to another within Apache using .htacess. This is how to do it permanently (using an HTTP 301 redirect)…
A Proposed Project to Summarize the Concepts Taught by the Classics
So I have an idea for a project. The idea is to document the core concepts taught in the major classical works. Phase two would…
Aggregating and Displaying Your Discovered Content Using Google’s Feed API
So I finally accomplished something with the site I’ve been wanting to do for a couple of months now–my “Discovered Items” section in the first…
Feel vs. Features: The iPhone Now #1 in Japan
I think my argument for feel vs. features has been thoroughly supported over the last few years of iPhone success. Not just success in the…
Getting IP Location Information in Wireshark
Laura Chappell just posted a great tutorial on getting GeoIP working with the new version of Wireshark (1.2). I set it up myself recently and…
A Security-focused HTTP Primer
What follows is a primer on the key security-oriented characteristics of the HTTP protocol. It’s a collection of a number of different sub-topics, explained in…
Installing the Latest Version of Nmap Using Subversion
As of the last year or so my preferred method for installing and updating nmap is to use subversion. It’s a good way to make…