I’ll Tell You What…

So I’m sitting there at work minding my own business when a co-worker walks up and tells me that the “powers-that-be” are testing the security of the UNIX/Linux systems by intentionally doing things that trigger events in our audit logs. I just roll my eyes and think happy thoughts for a minute or two […]

I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed xkcd.

Some of the things Bruce Schneier says reminds me of me. In his latest commentary in Wired.com, Bruce points out that it takes a different kind of person to see through security-tinted glasses.

In the continuing saga that is my professional life and programming, I seem to be doing more in Perl than anything else at the moment. Even with the motivation to read and study Java and Python I seem to be falling back on what I know better. And that’s not a bad thing, […]

I think it’s time to trade this body in for a new one.

This has a much better output. It actually types out the word for the number instead of just the number itself.

Two bottles of beer on the wall.
Two bottles of beer.
Take one down.
Pass it around.
One bottle of beer on the wall.

One bottle of beer on the wall.
One bottle of beer.
Take it down.
Pass it around.
No more bottles […]

/**
* Simple program that prints out the words
* to the 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
* song.
*
* Based on the BeerSong example in the
* _Head_First_Java_ book with corrections.
*/
public class BeerSong {
public static void main (String[] args) {
[…]

public class hello
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println(”hello, hello…”);
}
}