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New software: Pelican 01 September 2019
Imprint? 06 September 2007
Site update 26 May 2007
Carolina colours 20 June 2006
Hockey colours 15 June 2006
First post. 21 December 2003

Quinn on the 09-10 Oilers 02 April 2010
Grading the Players: 2009-12-31 vs CAL 01 January 2010
Burkie's Heart 24 November 2009
Grading the Players: Sorry Steve 11 November 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-11-10 vs OTT 11 November 2009
Oilers vs Flames followup, 3 October 2009 05 October 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-10-03 vs CAL 04 October 2009
Grading the Players: The Grades 04 October 2009
Schremp and the draft 01 October 2009
Heatley's Baggage 03 July 2009
Penner for Heater? 30 June 2009
Finals and Drafts 28 June 2009
Playoff Predictions: SCF 2009 28 May 2009
Playoff Predictions: Round 3 2009 15 May 2009
Playoff Predictions: Round 2 29 April 2009
Playoff Predictions: Round 1 2009 13 April 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-03-26 at Phoenix 27 March 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-03-07 vs TOR 07 March 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-02-19 vs DAL 20 February 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-02-05 vs STL 06 February 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-01-30 vs MIN 31 January 2009
Something else gonna give? 21 January 2009
Something had to give: Garon on the move 17 January 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-01-15 vs MIN 16 January 2009
Grading the Players: 2009-01-05 vs NYI 06 January 2009
Grading the players: metapost 04 January 2009
Grading the Players: 2008-12-30 vs Ottawa 31 December 2008
Grading the Players: 2008-12-28 vs Nashville 29 December 2008
Grading the Players: 2008-12-17 vs Vancouver 18 December 2008
Math is hard: powerplay faceoff percentage 20 November 2008
Grading the players: 2008-11-19 at Columbus 19 November 2008
Please sir, could you get that number? 16 November 2008
Headshots 08 November 2008
Grading the Players: 2008-11-06 vs Pittsburgh 07 November 2008
Simmons Part 2 on Frost 29 October 2008
Steve Simmons shows us how it's done 28 October 2008
Grading the Players: 2008-10-27 vs Bruins 28 October 2008
Grading the players: 2008-10-22 23 October 2008
Grading the players 22 October 2008
Tempests in teapots are insignificant only if you're a coffee drinker 22 October 2008
Grading the Players: 2008-10-18 19 October 2008
Game 1 2008: an undeserved win 13 October 2008
About time 12 October 2008
IPB Blogging Questionnaire: MikeP edition 04 October 2008
Statsguys vs nonstats guys (things have gone downhill) 03 October 2008
Watching Hockey for Newbies 10 August 2008
College boys leaving town 17 July 2008
Oh, that's just Burkie 10 July 2008
Whither Horcoff? 02 July 2008
Torres, Pitkanen out, Brule and Cole in; Dupuis 01 July 2008
Vish: to Edmonchuk 30 June 2008
Poor Mats Sundin 22 June 2008
No more HNIC theme? Say it ain't so! 05 June 2008
Damn wives 02 June 2008
Stanley Cup Finals 2008 19 May 2008
2008 Playoffs Round 3 Predictions 05 May 2008
HNIC Towels 27 April 2008
Staples: look at the success of previous RFA offers 24 April 2008
2008 Playoffs Round 2 Predictions 23 April 2008
Avery's a dick too 15 April 2008
CinO wonders what the bullet equivalent of a puck to the testes is 15 April 2008
Oilers Players: post-season interviews 2008 14 April 2008
Next year's Oilers: the forwards 13 April 2008
2008 Playoffs Round 1 predictions 07 April 2008
State of the NHL: 23 March 2008 23 March 2008
Stick a fork in 'em 04 February 2008
Tarnstrom and Glencross 02 February 2008
Those who live by the sword 25 January 2008
Reporters and deadlines 08 January 2008
MAD or just mad? 24 December 2007
Things were so much better in the old days, weren't they? 15 November 2007
Dustin Penner: a mid-November look 11 November 2007
Reasons to Hate 3: The Detroit Red Wings 11 November 2007
Game Day Saturday: Oilers Flames 10 November 2007 11 November 2007
Reasons to Hate 2: The Buffalo Sabres 04 November 2007
RTH: Derek Boogaard 04 November 2007
Schremp back in Springfield, some thoughts on Pouliot 20 October 2007
Gameday Saturday: 13 October 2007 13 October 2007
Friday the 12th 2007: Vancouver at Edmonton 13 October 2007
Reasons to Hate 1: The Anaheim (Mighty) Ducks 13 October 2007
Reasons to Hate 0: Intro 13 October 2007
The Oilers so far 07 October 2007
Good job, Bettman 03 October 2007
Moreau gets the C 02 October 2007
MacT: money quote 23 September 2007
Laforge: divorce is worth it! 13 September 2007
Pisani 06 September 2007
Player agents: show me the money 03 September 2007
Sundin's new squeeze is news? 18 August 2007
A reason why I love hockey 11 August 2007
Cammalleri, Penner 07 August 2007
Terror struck 28 July 2007
UFA quickies 12 July 2007
Sid the Kid signs 11 July 2007
Lowe and the press 08 July 2007
UFA season, 2007 (part 1a) 02 July 2007
UFA season, 2007 (part 1?) 02 July 2007
Tricky Dicky 29 June 2007
Anti-rant: First round, 2007 23 June 2007
Muckler and Hartnell out 18 June 2007
Yashin? 07 June 2007
Not really Canada's team 07 June 2007
Schremp 06 April 2007
Edmonton Major Junior Thunder 18 March 2007
Sun Media and stupidity 15 March 2007
The future 04 March 2007
Last on Smytty 04 March 2007
Captain Highliner 01 March 2007
"Captain Nassau" 28 February 2007
Thoresen back to Wilkes-Barre, Samsonov waived 06 February 2007
vs Avalanche, 3 Feb 2007 04 February 2007
Stortini finally draws in 21 January 2007
Luongo, you dolt 16 January 2007
Hrudey's kind of a jerk too 16 January 2007
Ripping NHL icons new ones 13 January 2007
Mario the not quite Magnificent 08 January 2007
Sign some D 08 January 2007
On reporting in hockey 13 December 2006
Fans are stupid 12 December 2006
More on Smyth 25 November 2006
Where's the beef - Captain Canada 21 November 2006
Shootouts 20 November 2006
Of mice and men.. Stortini gets the call. 20 November 2006
Six to two Ducks? 26 October 2006
Detroit game: 21 October 2006 22 October 2006
What about hockey? 20 October 2006
MSM hates blogs 20 October 2006
No I in team... 14 October 2006
Carolina, Columbus 29 September 2006
RFA offer sheets 13 September 2006
Brief hockey notes, 12 September 12 September 2006
Lombardi vs Stoll 18 August 2006
Sean Avery is a dick too 16 August 2006
I say corps, you say core, he says corpse 29 July 2006
Oilers media advisory, 19 July 2006 19 July 2006
Mike Hudson vs Slats 12 July 2006
Rich Winter, Agent Provocateur 11 July 2006
Two down 05 July 2006
Last on Pronger 04 July 2006
Oilers, post-Pronger 03 July 2006
UFA Feeding Frenzy 2006 03 July 2006
Hockey roundup, 2006 FA season 03 July 2006
Back to Oilers colours 02 July 2006
Nameless 29 June 2006
Pronger the last 28 June 2006
It's official when it's official. 24 June 2006
Hockey families 24 June 2006
Pre-draft 2006 scuttlebutt 24 June 2006
Brindy's contract 23 June 2006
2006 SCF Postscript 20 June 2006
Carolina is #1 (2006) 19 June 2006
Game 7, SCF 2006 19 June 2006
Pre-game, G7 of the 2006 SCF 19 June 2006
Game 6 of the 2006 Finals 17 June 2006
Primary vs Secondary scoring 16 June 2006
Ranks - PSA 14 June 2006
Game 5 of the 2006 Finals 14 June 2006
Fact checking 13 June 2006
Game 4, 2006 SCF 12 June 2006
Game 3 of the 2006 SCF 10 June 2006
Game 2 of 2006 SCF, vs the Hurricanes 07 June 2006
MA Bergeron 06 June 2006
After Game 1: Goalies 06 June 2006
Game 1 of 2006 SCF, vs the Hurricanes 05 June 2006
Carolina vs Edmonton 03 June 2006
Game 5 vs the Ducks 27 May 2006
Game 4 vs the Ducks 25 May 2006
Game 3 vs the Ducks 23 May 2006
Game 2 vs the Ducks 21 May 2006
Game 1 vs the Ducks 19 May 2006
G6 redux 18 May 2006
Game 6 vs the Sharks 17 May 2006
Game 4 vs the Sharks 12 May 2006
Game 3 vs the Sharks 10 May 2006
Game 2 vs the Sharks 08 May 2006
Game 1 vs the Sharks 07 May 2006
Round 2, 2006 playoffs 06 May 2006
Life is good... Looking forward to California 03 May 2006
Thoughts from Game 6 vs Detroit 01 May 2006
Thoughts from Game 5 vs Detroit 29 April 2006
Thoughts from Game 4 vs Detroit 28 April 2006
Thoughts from Game 3 vs Detroit 25 April 2006
Thoughts from Game 2 23 April 2006
Thoughts on being a fan 09 February 2006
Downie vs Bertuzzi 02 January 2006
Todd Bertuzzi 23 December 2005
CHL draftees 24 November 2005

Speaking to the dead 02 September 2024
Fortunes 03 August 2024
Cars in Newfoundland 31 March 2023
Gorgeous Georgeous 23 November 2019
Bacon and Egg Coal Miner's Pasta 15 October 2019
Travis, 2003 - 20 May 2015 20 May 2015
Hello, goodbye 04 July 2013
Mein Name ist 04 August 2011
Wired for info 18 August 2009
Ada Lovelace Day 24 March 2009
History is Boring: Dangerous Chain Letters 21 December 2008
That guy you know 03 December 2008
Stock photography reference 14 November 2008
But you're not like me 12 October 2008
IT as a service organization 04 October 2008
Quirks and Quarks on Psychopathy 04 October 2008
I need a book to tell me being nice might get me stuff? 04 October 2008
Lottery systems 03 October 2008
People lie more in an email 30 September 2008
New podcast 20 August 2008
Rev Up For School on Ebay! 10 August 2008
How do I start something? 01 August 2008
Office Space 17 July 2008
Popular views of justice 02 July 2008
Morgentaler to the Order of Canada 01 July 2008
A university's environmental responsibility 15 June 2008
Philosophy is out of the picture 11 June 2008
Chinese society and the white man's burden 03 June 2008
Death in the family 17 May 2008
Personally, I think that this is just my opinion 13 April 2008
Human Coal and Talent 01 March 2008
Justice, mental health, and redirected aggression 17 February 2008
Emotions, simulating and emulating 31 January 2008
Interdisciplinary seminars 27 December 2007
Arguing 14 December 2007
Public credulity with respect to brain science 14 December 2007
Mens rea in Canadian law 13 December 2007
Why your writing sucks. 09 December 2007
Academic assholes 07 December 2007
The Irrelevant Olympics 07 December 2007
Write like you talk, but edit: contradictory advice? 06 December 2007
Writing well 04 November 2007
Chalmers-zombies 21 October 2007
Definitions harmful? 19 October 2007
How does the mind relate to the body? 03 October 2007
Combating "but you're too busy" syndrome 02 October 2007
Succincter 19 September 2007
Succinctness 17 September 2007
Yummy curried cabbage and salmon 16 September 2007
Interpreting user-specified metadata 03 September 2007
Whose responsibility? 01 September 2007
Bell Canada Disservice 01 September 2007
Leadership is doing what you say 22 August 2007
OSXplanet 12 August 2007
Writing Papers - abstracts and using LaTeX 12 August 2007
Good customer service 11 August 2007
On soldiering and yellow ribbons 03 August 2007
Reasons vs excuses 25 June 2007
Necroposting 24 June 2007
Inherently contradictory beliefs and artificial intelligence 23 June 2007
Study of social computing (with some political waffling) 10 June 2007
Creative thinkers at work 10 June 2007
A bit more on AI and forgetting 10 June 2007
Why does it matter? 13 May 2007
Mindmapping and goalsetting 17 March 2007
Mac mind mapping bookmark 17 March 2007
Update on Mind Maps 05 March 2007
Habits of effective philosophy students 05 March 2007
Memory and artificial intelligence 14 January 2007
Mind Mapping 23 October 2006
Cheap at the price 16 October 2006
Naming vendors 20 September 2006
News on your desktop... great idea or timesink? 08 September 2006
Ethics of the infantryman 15 August 2006
Clusters and frustrations 11 July 2006
Captain Copyright 01 June 2006
Outlook 31 March 2006
Habits 28 December 2004
A reply to the monkey's questions about militaries 25 May 2004
Unselling 27 January 2004

Book Review: Practical Threat Detection Engineering 14 October 2024
Reading Microsoft MSG files with Python 30 June 2022
No Robot Searches Please 26 February 2021
FreeBSD host, bhyve with Debian 10.7 guest 16 January 2021
Generating new SSH keys in 2021 07 January 2021
bash redirect stderr and stdout to null 24 September 2019
Privacy and account security online 16 February 2018
Python, MacOS, OpenSSL, MacPorts 25 February 2016
Using jq with Bro logs 03 August 2015
FreeBSD, irssi, screen, and UTF-8 18 November 2013
Using Bro to load balance 13 September 2013
Automated rsync backups with ssh key restrictions 30 July 2013
Double click for new terminal 03 October 2012
Making Mail.app usable 11 September 2012
Documentation and maturity 19 August 2012
chkconfig, mysql 19 January 2012
Using Stow on a Mac 22 December 2011
Dealing with MacOS extended file attributes 19 September 2011
packetfu followup 21 March 2011
What is a driveby download? 25 February 2011
Credential theft, mitigations thereof 29 December 2010
Firesheep: black hats for the masses 25 November 2010
Networked printers are cool 18 November 2010
UNC faculty member held responsible for security breach 08 October 2010
Suricata and pf_ring on RHEL 5.5 20 September 2010
A snark on modern computing 28 April 2010
Doing pcap stuff with Ruby on a Mac 27 April 2010
Snow Leopard vs Macfusion 09 February 2010
Tracking NAT users for abuse reports 25 November 2009
Ubuntu Keyring vs login password 04 November 2009
Developuction 16 September 2009
The Evil Dead Windows 04 August 2009
Crayon network shapes for Visio 29 July 2009
Risky Business: Assuming Competency 25 July 2009
Risk Metrics: A Sad Story 16 July 2009
Why security and usability *must* go hand in hand 03 June 2009
Ethics: open shares 31 May 2009
Clean up bloaty Macs 31 May 2009
Conficker: what gives? 28 March 2009
Users and forensics 25 February 2009
System Monitoring 28 December 2008
SSH keys tricks 24 December 2008
Starting an IH/R program 23 November 2008
Cheat Sheets for incident handling 23 November 2008
IBM's secrets for cluster admins 09 November 2008
Cleaning up after MacPorts 12 October 2008
MSN Shadow: Forensics for MSN Messenger 05 October 2008
Microsoft on investigating a Windows machine 04 October 2008
Mike's Email Apohorism 05 September 2008
When documentation does not match reality: svn 31 July 2008
Followup: Solaris 10 pkgsrc 17 July 2008
Solaris 10 pkgsrc 17 July 2008
Debian 4.0 on SPARC64 07 July 2008
How much to concentrate on patching? 04 July 2008
Security through obscurity: email non-publication 27 May 2008
SEC504: Hacker Techniques and Incident Handling 16 May 2008
Windows Apple Updater and Metrics 20 April 2008
Accountants don't get it 07 April 2008
Computer thefts and privacy: some administrators get it 07 April 2008
Solaris runtime dependencies 29 March 2008
Writing Tools: MarsEdit 23 February 2008
A Sun rant 28 January 2008
Aphorism regarding academic computing 14 January 2008
Writing software - for weblogs 30 December 2007
Backups for your PC 24 December 2007
Sun N1 Grid Engine: don't edit batch files in Windows 14 December 2007
PSA: don't run DoubleCommand + Leopard 16 November 2007
Leopard revisited 09 November 2007
Leopard: Spaces vs CodeTek Virtual Desktop, other tidbits 06 November 2007
Automounting CDs in Solaris 10 15 October 2007
Bad UI: OpenSuSE 10.3 12 October 2007
More on mpijohn 04 October 2007
FOSS Politics 30 September 2007
Lights, camera, hopefully no action 20 September 2007
Solaris 10 under VMWare (Fusion) - busted. 20 September 2007
OpenDNS 14 September 2007
MPI john 06 September 2007
Automapping SMB mounts at login under OS X 10.4 31 August 2007
Mac MUD clients 30 August 2007
Testing Snort 18 August 2007
ftester - a firewall / IDS tester 12 August 2007
Trinity Rescue Kit 12 August 2007
Fixing NTP under OS X 04 August 2007
Using ipmitool on SuSE boxes 03 August 2007
Regular expression quickies 03 August 2007
Pointing the fingers after a data breach 31 July 2007
QEMU for Macs 29 July 2007
Thunderbird + Growl, take two 28 July 2007
Core Force: Free Windows Security 13 July 2007
Google hacking keywords 12 July 2007
Thunderbird + Growl 12 July 2007
Irony (in the Alanis sense)... 01 July 2007
First iPhone vulnerability 01 July 2007
FreeBSD clusters 29 June 2007
Setting hostnames in OS X 29 June 2007
Introduction to rainbow tables 23 June 2007
103 Free Security Applications 23 June 2007
Ubuntu 6.06 vs Dell nvidia card: fight! 11 June 2007
Illusory security 10 June 2007
Distributed john 10 June 2007
Google Earth 09 June 2007
Windows: SMB over SSH 19 May 2007
Communicating with students 18 May 2007
perfmon in Ubuntu 6.10 01 May 2007
Metasploit 3.0 under Ubuntu 7.04 30 April 2007
A question for security pros 24 April 2007
Mini-review: Unicomp keyboard 24 April 2007
bash foreach 16 April 2007
argus hates FreeBSD tun devices? 09 April 2007
Stupid UI: Lenovo 26 March 2007
Dogmatic security 15 March 2007
BackTrack 2.0 beta 07 March 2007
Computer security misses the point 04 March 2007
DISA Checklists 12 February 2007
Google searches 06 February 2007
Mark Pilgrim's History of DVD Encryption 21 January 2007
Brother HL 1440 vs FreeBSD 11 January 2007
Bookmark - Computer Security podcasts 17 December 2006
getmail vs procmail 16 December 2006
Windows Security - Process Monitor 12 November 2006
Keyboards 11 November 2006
MacOS NTP 10 November 2006
SuSE redux 08 November 2006
SuSE updating 06 November 2006
Windows TS using TLS/SSL 05 November 2006
Metasploit vs Ubuntu 02 November 2006
Jarnal: note taking 01 November 2006
SLED VMWare image 30 October 2006
Free network security courses? 29 October 2006
VPNs: Hamachi 29 October 2006
Wiki matrix 28 October 2006
Typefaces 28 October 2006
Free a/v for Windows? 16 October 2006
Firmware sucks 15 October 2006
Big Bad Apple 02 October 2006
What do they have to gain? 30 September 2006
Ubuntu 6.06.1 alternate installer 21 September 2006
Spyware, or, How I Hate Windows 20 September 2006
iPod syncing 15 September 2006
iClickwhat? 29 August 2006
Argus 3.0 on FreeBSD 16 August 2006
Patches and security metrics 06 August 2006
High level: Security vs Ease of Use 27 July 2006
Frustration with hardware 07 July 2006
RT cleanups 16 June 2006
PGP keys 12 June 2006
Air Canada vs WestJet, conclusion 06 June 2006
Upgrading Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger to 6.06 Dapper Drake 03 June 2006
Investigating a compromised Linux host 13 May 2006