Entourage Rule to Filter Russian Spam
May 8th, 2009
See and Look
May 7th, 2009
In English, “see” and “look” have very similar meanings, while “oversee” and “overlook” have almost opposite meanings. I find this amusing. It’s even more amusing when it shows up on a resume like the one I saw today:
I overlooked a team of five doing blah, blah, blah…
So, did this person fail to notice a team of five that was doing a lot of important work? Or did he actually mean that he “oversaw” them? 
I also notice that we can have an insight, but not an outsight. We can have an outlook, but not an inlook. We can oversee and overlook, but we can’t undersee or underlook, unless we are perhaps undersea.
Poker Copilot: The only poker helper for Mac users?
May 1st, 2009
I’ve done a bunch of work in online poker lately (for Cigital), and so it’s important for me to improve my game to where I’m not just one of the fish. I was keen to try some of the software that’s out there, but I’m a Mac user. I’m not going to use Windows just to play poker, especially when both PokerStars and FullTilt Poker offer Mac native clients. That’s where Poker Copilot comes in. I tried a couple others, but they seemed too limited, too “beta,” for my purposes. Read more…
Book Review:
April 23rd, 2009
I recently read Ari Takanen’s Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance. This is a valuable book on fuzz testing, and timely. Read more…
Why is Facebook worse than TV?
April 23rd, 2009
I was just reading “Five Clues That You Are Addicted to Facebook” on cnn.com and it occured to me that Facebook should really be considered in the same light as television. Read more…