The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey May 6, 2018

6 May 2018

Whoops. One third of a year is gone. And we apparently went straight from Winter to Summer this last week. It was still Winter on Monday, with a frost coating all the lawns and roofs in our neighborhood. Spring lasted about 6 hours. I say this because, for me, Spring is the period of time between turning off the furnace, and turning on the air conditioning. That lasted about 6 hours on Wednesday (it was a 40°F wake-up temp), I figure the furnace was running until about 10 AM; I turned on the AC at 4 PM (it was 87°F…

Brian Bilbrey April 29, 2018

29 April 2018

Fun weekend. After the first full week back from vacation, I put in a grueling day and a half at BSidesCharm. Talks and panels all day and into the evening on Saturday, then I came back for half a day today. I missed a couple of afternoon talks and the closing ceremony so that I could catch up on the mowing, etc. Favorite talks: OSX/Pirrit by Amit Serper on Saturday, and Effective Monitoring by Russell Mosley and Ryan St. Germain on Sunday (yep, I'm biased about that one). The Saturday evening Straight Up panel was a lot of fun, only…

Brian Bilbrey April 22, 2018

22 April 2018

Well. That was one of the longest breaks I've had in posting since I started 18 years and change ago. Reasonable reason: We went out to California to visit family. Other than puttering about working on Python a bit here and there, I was offline most of the time. A very relaxing trip, but hard to jump back into the groove. We got back near midnight Wednesday. Thursday was shopping, picking up the dog from the boarding kennel, and (apparently) sleeping much of the rest of the day (but a couple of hours patching systems remotely in the mid-evening hours).

Brian Bilbrey April 1, 2018

1 April 2018

I don't have anything particularly amusing going on just now that is pertinent to April Fool's Day, but there's always an RFC, so here's one of two from this very day: Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode. If those terms aren't in your weekly vocabulary, then you're probably not going to find much distressingly funny about the other end of the link, but I had a chuckle or two. We had a lovely week, with my niece Alex joining us for much of it. She got some quality museum time in, and saw some friends from elsewhere. She also joined us…

Brian Bilbrey March 26, 2018

26 March 2018

Busy week and weekend past. The week brought us our heaviest snow of the season, on the first day of Spring. Here's a shot from my drive home last Wednesday, midday: Much of the weekend went to house cleaning and associated chores - we have a house guest arriving shortly. I also roasted some more of the Guatemala Pico Mayor Gesha from Sweet Maria's. Lovely stuff, and it wouldn't do to run out because I'll be brewing more than usual, perhaps. I also did some more glue-ups on the new jig I built last weekend: We march in spirit with…