Uh, I got editor credits in Gordon Lyon's Nmap book. You might want to check it out, it's pretty good (see http://nmap.org/book/ for reviews and more information). In other news, I recently read 4 books on the SR-71 "Blackbird": Blackbird Rising: Birth of an Aviation Legend (Donn A Byrnes (Col. USAF (Ret)), SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story, SR-71 Blackbird: Stories, Tales and Legends, and Flying the SR-71 Blackbird (all three by Rich Graham (Col. USAF (Ret))). If you are at all interested in some spectacular aviation history, you might want to order these (I ordered mine directly from the authors).

I discovered the 'nohz=off' boot parameter for the Linux kernel a few days ago. With absolutely dire Ubuntu performance on a Lenovo T61p, this parameter was salvation. Firefox 3 no longer spends untold seconds hogging the machine when it fsync()'s and VMWare Workstation actually runs smoothly. A tip if you're experiencing poor performance on your Ubuntu 8.04 system (2.6.24 kernel): try booting with the aforementioned parameter.

I revived an old DNS tool, and found a dumb bug in the Promise NAS NS4300N GUI (dumb bugs are good for enabling functionality).

Ok, so I cheat by using a little CSS, but I finally got around to changing the look of the old site (I had to do something other than programming while the hardware is failing to support it - yep, full service has yet to resume, much like the trains I have to rely on to get to work).

Here's hoping the site is finally W3 compliant.