All News

2008 Sep 28
Long time without a real update...

Current Location: Seattle

I've been working at the tech startup Pelago, makers of Whrrl for a few months now. It's been a ton of fun, and I've learned more than I thought was possible. Not only do I have a better appreciation for the work that goes into a startup, but I'm eager to see what challenges tomorrow brings. I don't know if my counterparts at large companies XY&Z share my enthusiasm. :)

In other news, I've picked up a new camera bag.. this one will fit my laptop so I've made it my primary carrying case. Hopefully, with my camera with me all day I'll have more pictures to share.

I'll try to update this more frequently, but you never know with how busy I am these days.

2008 Apr 24
Another thesis done.

Want to read my Masters Thesis? Okgo.

2008 Mar 18
31 c0

xor eax,eax

2008 Feb 14
Erlang is the Future.

Just to make chris upset, I am proclaming Erlang the future of programming. Plz stop all development in other languages. I will only review/build/test/checkout code written in Erlang. Thx.

-The Mgmt.

2007 Oct 21
Dolly is coming.

Shh... Inventing web 3.0 right now. Plz do not bother me. :)

2007 Oct 20
Trying to embed videos

2007 Oct 17
ACM@UIUC R|P Conference

Conference this year was good. Talks are online now under Videos. I personally enjoyed the Steve Yegge and Randall Munroe talks.

In other news - TCIP is done with, time to finish my Masters and get out of here.

2007 Apr 16
Gallery Added

So, I finally broke down and installed Gallery on this site. I moved my HDR photos into an album there and maybe someday I'll upload more. There's a link at the top or if you are too lazy to look for it. Click Here

2007 Mar 3
First HDR Photos

Been using my new camera a lot. Got interested in HDR photography and here are my first few attempts:

Siebel Center

Siebel Center 2

2006 Jun 11
Thesis done

Traffic Analysis of Tor Hidden Services

2006 Jan 22
New Doc

"Hijacking Linux Syscalls & Writing a Linux Keylogger: A Case Study" has been added to docs. This talk was given at a SIGMil meeting on Jan 20, 2006. It covers some background information on how Linux syscalls work as well as the old 2.4 method for replacing syscalls. However, the intent of the doc is to cover finding the sys_call_table[] in the 2.6 kernel.

2005 Dec 11
CTF results

SIGMil places 4th (out of 22) in CTF. Our team placed first out of all teams from the United States, beating schools like: UT Austin, Georgia Tech, and UCSB.

2005 Nov 28
Crunch Time

Applying to grad schools now. Busy writing personal statements and other similar documents to sell myself adequately. Also, preparing for CTF.

2005 Nov 21
Thanksgiving Break

On break now, hopefully this will give me the time to add more content to this site. Look for more in 'Projects' and 'Docs & Tutorials' in the coming days.

2005 Nov 13
Success!

Many updates have come in short time. Random headlines on the main page, custom written content management, mysql backend... lots of code being thrown around behind the scenes. The only important feature not yet added is the ability to edit news posts. Right now only add and delete exist... so I better get it right the first time. :)

2005 Nov 11
3:00 PM

Finished creating pages for the other section of the site, including "more headlines". Next on the list of things to do is a better content management system. This will likely involve MYSQL and some more PHP code.

1:00 AM

Major website revision. Been busy with stuff and things lately, however I'm taking this time to update..

In case you are wondering, the headlines are provided by slashdot and reuters via RSS feeds. The actual work of fetching and parsing of these RSS feeds is done with the help of MagpieRSS.

The code I used for the headlines in very short ( < 20 lines ), but it is also very uninteresting. A near-future improvement would be to randomly choose a headline from the pool of those offered. Alas, this must wait for a later date.

Other things to be added/fixed in the near future are the projects, doc & tutorial, links, and contact pages. Until that happens, you can visit the old versions at oldSite