Over at Security Focus there’s an InFocus article titled “Detecting Rootkits And Kernel-level Compromises In Linux” that I thought was an interesting read.
These things have gotten really sophisticated.
We’re being condo-ified
Well, it’s official now. The new owners of our apartment complex bought this place to turn them all into condos. According to the letter found on my door this evening, we should be getting an official letter soon about the conversion process. I’m just hoping that the prices will be reasonable so we’ll be able to scrape together enough dough to buy our unit so we don’t have to move again.
I’m sure this will be an interesting process. Hopefully not a painful one.
Christmas pains
Heard one of the more amusing variants on ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ on the radio today that I’ve heard in a long time. It was a song called ‘The Twelve Pains of Christmas’ and I got a pretty good chuckle out of it. I particularly liked the guy trying to rig up the lights.
The holiday menu
In a couple of short days, we’ll be headed to the wife’s folks place again to work on another holiday feasting. Their feasting and our working :).
This year we’re doing the turkey and macaroni and cheese as usual, maybe the greens too. For the day after, we’re going to be roasting up a bunch of those little chickens. The things people call Cornish hens. 18 of them. Prepared like the turkey so they’ll be brined and all. Should be interesting. I don’t think we’ll be able to fit more than 5 or 6 of these things in the oven, so we’ll be using every oven on the compound to do this one. Fortunately they only take an hour to cook. We tried out a few of them on a couple of friends last week and they turned out pretty good. If we can get the timing right and manage the 3 separate ovens I think this should turn out pretty good.
There’s just one thing that bothers me about these little chickens. You can Google up plenty of pictures of cooked or uncooked Cornish hens. Finding pictures of what they look like alive is a totally different matter though. Kind of makes you wonder if these things are actually real, or if they’re really some kind of manufactured food. Like Soylent Green or something like that.
Let the holidays begin!
We finally got a start on our Christmas baking. A little later than usual. All of you people expecting cookies will just have to wait a little while. They’re going to be late this year. But they’ll still be just as tasty!
The tree is up too, with a few presents underneath it even. Christmas cards are coming in, but we’ve just been too busy this year to send any out. So to those of you that sent us one (and those who didn’t send us one), I apologize for not sending out a card. But we do wish all of you a happy and fun holiday season and all the best for 2005!
We’ve been thinking of doing one of those Christmas form letters people seem to be so big on. You know, those ones that you get from your friends and family telling you about all their accomplishments and big events over the past year. I thought it might be interesting to take it a step further and do one as a blog entry. The wife thinks I might be a little too ahead of my time though. I think I’ll give it a try anyway. It’s not like there are a lot of people reading this anyway. Or are there…