Tuesday's security conference went really well. I thought it was gonna be boring, but Jesper Johansson was the speaker for the one track and was actually really interesting. He actually knew what he was talking about, and not just in relation to Microsoft products. It's always nice when people are willing to admit product shortcomings or outright design flaws (especially when they have ways to work around them). Product failures as well, such as Windows ME also known as windows me or windows 98 but they managed to break everything, or Wintendo. Anyways, the day was worth it. While we were there Ross came up with a good idea for shirts so I threw together a draft last night. Everyone liked it so tonight I went all out and started editing 10000x3000 pixel multi-layer images (my gimpswap file was up just over 900MB) and ended up with this (that's the scaled down version). As for the shirts, CafePress also has other stuff, and they're the cheapest assuming they either don't notice or their policies are more CYOA, so have fun. If you have any other suggestions of products to place the image on that you're actually interested in buying, let me know. Tuesday night also involved hanging out at Ross' avoiding rush hour traffic, trying to figure out why my email was taking so long to download and realizing that having 5300 messages in the box may have something to do with it. Then Dave wanted to go to Willow Gate, followed by Starbucks with rather interesting conversations. Wednesday was odd. Seems like every time I tried to do something other things got in the way. Sorted through the above mentioned email, which involved lots of virus warnings and notices to yank machines from the network. I need to remember to add my other machine to the exception list so it doesn't complain when I forward viruses to people... Anyways, tried to work on a server in San Diego, and firewall stuff stopped me. Got that working, and started investigating applying patches to our Windows servers due to the patches released Tuesday, but then the internet connection got slow enough the downloads just sorta crawled the rest of the day. Oh well, it feels like I actually got stuff done. Other interesting stuff of note - that house I was looking at last fall is back on the market again. This time they are selling it for sale by owner (they get an extra 3%), and they bumped the price up again. Sometimes I wonder about people...