Tophography

I had to start learning Perl this week for a little project that I was assigned. I spent most of Tuesday reading out of Programming Perl, and then spent all of Wednesday porting a Bourne Shell script over to Perl. Even though reading from the Camel book for 8 hours in one day was not particularly enjoyable, I now feel like I’ve finally gotten over the hump. Okay, now that I’ve shared that gem of a pun with you, let me also share the real reason for this post. I’ve found Perl to be somewhat artistically inspiring, and in honor of the language, I’ve created this fine piece of art that I now present to the world.

And remember,
Real Men use strict;

Whenever I’ve listened to somebody give an explanation of RAID, they always emphasize the point that “RAID is not a backup.” It’s a good point to make because people often assume otherwise. I just read an interesting article (also) about a Swedish hacker that set up a bunch of TOR exit-nodes, and sniffed the traffic. That’s right, TOR is not encryption. We all know what happens when we assume, and assumptions are especially unacceptable when making important decisions about security.

I’m sure that I had a lot more to say about this when I stuck this in my draft section almost 3 months ago, but it’s been so long that I think I’ll just be done with it.