forever roaming with a hungry heart
If you are the kind of person who enjoys reading accident reports for fun (hi), you may have heard of the Therac-25, a medical radiation device. Some of us learned about it in school, including yours truly, by reading this paper by Leveson Turner describing how it had some software bugs and ultimately killed Continue reading "Implementation Detail or Invariant?; or, The Hardware Interlock Fallacy"
The above cartoon had pride of place on my grandparents fridge in Colorado for all the years that I knew them. I assume it was a gift from a friend or colleague after Grandpa retired from DEC and started his consulting business. A couple years ago a family member who was thinking about starting their Continue reading "Advice for New and Aspiring Consultants"
I was revisiting my Github README article about incident communications the other day and noticed that many of the links I had put in my bio to Akamai s public-facing incident management documentation had rotted away due to some intervening revision of the Akamai web site. Since they provided valuable context and I had cause to Continue reading "Incident Management Resources from Akamai"
I value the truth, and, more importantly, I value the process of seeking the truth. Scientific methods, despite every misstep, are the best methods we know for developing and understanding truths about the universe around us and ourselves—that is to say, they give us the best ability to predict what will happen in the universe Continue reading "What I Value"
I wrote up some fairly off-the-cuff travel cybersecurity advice back in 2022 for a client, and it s generic and useful and still current enough that I thought I would post a lightly-edited version here. Its audience is mostly-US persons and US-based organizations traveling abroad for conferences in a professional capacity, although I think it is Continue reading "Basic Conference Travel…