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[Update: I'm sorry to report that Cafe Pesto wasn't all that great. Follow the link below to Yelp if you want more info on what I thought.]

We’re off to Pesto Cafe. Matt (the groom) said it was his favorite! Yelp lists it as 4.5/5 stars with 17 reviews. And, they have pizza (the best food ever). So, we simply must try it. I’ll report back later and let you know how it was.

My friend Jen (not my wife, Jenny) recently introduced me to a great satire weblog called “Stuff White People Like”. A post from Tuesday really hits home.
#76 Bottles of Water
Coincidentally, Jen and I just got new water bottles, Sigg bottles to be exact. Doh!

A friend sent me an email linking to a very interesting Ars Technica story, “Researchers crack FileVault, BitLoacker with canned air hack“. The canned air hack involves using the canned air bottle upside-down to cool the RAM enough to prevent data loss long enough to read key schedule material, etc… (enough information to crack the disk encryption).

It’s a clever hack for sure. I just wish the implementors of FileVault (Apple), TrueCrypt (it’s Open Source so anyone that knows how can presumably fix it), dm-crypt, and BitLocker (Microsoft), had been more careful in their implementation. My guess is that they did what they did for speed purposes and figured that if sensitive information were in RAM it was only for a few seconds. The trade off was worth it to them so they could claim encryption / decryption speeds that would keep them from losing market share. But, that’s all uneducated speculation on my part.

It’ a very cool hack that’s good for responsible law enforcement, bad for the bad guys, but also bad for good people who just want to keep their personal information safe. That said, I doubt the average laptop thief is smart enough to employ the hack.

PS - Bruce Schneier has his take on it here:

There is a general security problem illustrated here: it is very difficult to secure data when the attacker has physical control of the machine the data is stored on.

Our yellow lab Mufasa was the best dog Jenny and I have ever had. We had to put Mufasa down on Friday, February 1st, only a few weeks before his 13th birthday. He lived a long and very good life. Despite his waning eye-sight, diminished hearing, and weak hind legs, he was one of the happiest dogs I’ve ever seen, right up until night-night time the night before he passed.

Mufasa was the type of dog who would walk into every room of the house until he knew where everyone was. He liked keeping his pack together. Just about everyday, he would poke his head into the shower to make sure we were still around.

He was a drive-by kisser. If we had shorts on, we were sure to get a kiss on the leg from Mufasa. If we had just come back from the gym, we wouldn’t need a shower because Mufasa would bath us in kisses.

We’re pretty sure Mufasa slept all day, especially in his later years. But man, as soon as we walked in the door and he heard that beep-beep-beep from the alarm system, he sprung into a state of excitement and joy. He was always sooooo happy to see us. He would come greet us. then search around for this one half ripped apart, yellow football. And, it couldn’t be any of the other two footballs, he had to have his football. Once he had his football he would go to the center of the living room (or center of the bedroom), drop his ball on the floor and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark (…) until someone played with him.

Even though Mufasa is no more, our love for him lives on. Mufasa will be in our hearts for the rest of our lives. I love you Mufasa!

I hadn’t heard this theory before. Sounds interesting and very Microsoft-like.

Of course, the real goal all along was to initiate the acquisition phase of the deal, perform due diligence tests to see what sort of technology Yahoo employs and what it has in store for the future and once the Department of Justice found problems in the deal, back out.

Don’t believe me? Look no further than Microsoft’s attempted deal with Intuit for all the proof you need.

Rogue Amoeba switches their blog to Wordpress and gives hat tip to Mars Edit.

With this post, I’m happy to announce that Under The Microscope has just hit version 3. [...] Also, I’d be remiss if I didn’t give a hat tip to Red Sweater’s MarsEdit, which I’m now using for all my posts.

Well, I’m glad to see that I’m doing the same thing as cool Mac developers.