SecureCon, SciPy, Gaming/Blade Runner

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Gave my presentation at SecureCon yesterday. PDF of the slides available, notes coming soon. The medieval castle metaphor does work particularly well for network security; also caught up with catsidhe who was present. Unfortuntely have not been able to attend today, but have successfully fixed an install of NumPy and SciPy, which required some annoying modifications to the code.

This Sunday I start the アイヌ語のラットの伝説 game. Tonight playing Polaris, last night D&D 'Ralia where my wide-eyed Hobbit continues to play the idiot savant. Tomorrow expecting some more gaming goodness with imajica_lj, kremmen, hathhalla, ser_pounce all making appearances before we head to the Astor to see Blade Runner, the Final Cut.

Ahem: I'm a goose; that's next Saturday which of course I'm booked with severina_242 and _zombiemonkey. Better fix that..

Yesterday slotted in another three scenes to my online HeroQuest Glorantha game. Have also completed a review of a classic RuneQuest/Judges Guild module, Broken Tree Inn on rpg.net

I've been saying this for years: Without Words there are no concepts (from hasimir via flemco). 8 limbed girl has operation. A blunt and pithy assessment of the economic claims in the Australian election. Howard on being sorry, and keeping wages down. News just in: Howard heckled with 'scumbag' taunts.

Comments

[zey.livejournal.com]

There was a comment on the interest rates apology from someone at Crikey:

Media coverage of Prime Minister John Howard saying “sorry” for interest rate rises was seized upon by the Opposition yesterday. More fool them. The PM later sprung his trap, revealing that when he said "sorry", it wasn't actually an apology!

At some point, the ALP needs to start taking the piss out of Howard using clips of The Fonz from Happy Days doing his "Surr-ruuh... Suh-ruuh..." thing. Happy Days was always meant to be a comedy, but, Howard's beyond a joke these days and his weasel-words have become a self-parody.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Ridicule is a powerful weapon (as Keating often showed). Rudd however doesn't have the demeanor to use it.

The Party does need a front-bencher who is capable of such commentary.

[zey.livejournal.com]

Even someone with a sense of humour contributing to their advertising wouldn't go astray :-).

[laptop006.livejournal.com]

On the way back from a job last night we saw a politial ad with a photo of Howard and the text "Australian working families have never been better off"; the rest of the ride home we tried to figure out if it was a Liberal or ALP ad. (Still no idea)

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The ALP isn't that subtle :-).

Hey, what are you doing with that mountain of money you have in Warbook?