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    Dungeons and Dragons

    I walked into my office and caught people playing Dungeons and Dragons.  It brought a smile to my face.  I haven’t played since I was in the 8th grade (or 7th) but I remember those days fondly, with Rob, Jason, Steve, etc.  And seeing that my office is as geeky as it should made me very happy.  It was on a Saturday, btw, so they weren’t playing D&D instead of working.  🙂

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    Edge Family Gifting

    You see, in my family it can get hard to buy good gifts for each other.  After my first book came out my dad decided that I needed a website.  So for my birthday he was kind enough to build me one in Flash.  Now that’s some serious Edge family gifting: http://charlesedge.com

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    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal While attending DefCon, a hacking conference in Las Vegas, Three18 staff members learned of Ciscogate. Ciscogate revolves around the plight of Mike Lynn. He was a researcher for Internet Security Systems Inc (ISS) until he resigned last week after giving a speech at Black Hat, an Information Technology security conference in Las Vegas. Due to the presentation and the speech Lynn gave a suit was filed against him by ISS and Cisco. Cisco hired people to go through the CDs given out by Black Hat containing all of the presentations and replace them with CDs absent the presentation. The first appearances of the case…