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"[Case] also saw a certain sense in the notion that burgeoning technologies require outlaw zones, that Night City wasn't there for its inhabitants, but as a deliberately unsupervised playground for technology itself. "
— William Gibson (Neuromancer)

Last month, I shut down the Gibson Index project. I hope one day to resurrect it in a new form and with renewed purpose, but this first version of it did not garner the traction necessary to keep me engaged.

Manually compiling data on increasingly commonplace cyber attacks was a lot of work, and tacking on an arbitrary rating to each one provided little to no overall value. Instead, I am hoping to free up time for my litany of other projects, including one that automatically compiles data on restaurant inspections (and tacks on an arbitrary rating - but using an algorithm, instead).

Thanks for reading. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Just want to jot this down so I don't forget (and maybe it can help someone else). I spent an inordinate amount of time wrestling with the ZF2 documentation trying to find out how to do pluralized translations, so hopefully you won't have to.

I've created a new Sculpin extension called "Icelus". You can use it to automatically generate thumbnails of images on your Sculpin-based website or blog. I chose the oddball name because Icelus is a genus of fish otherwise known as “Scaled Sculpin”, and thumbnails are scaled images (it's imaginative, dammit!).

For those who haven't heard of it, Sculpin is a static site generator like Jekyll or Octopress (or many others). Instead of acting as a dynamic application on a web server, it takes your blog posts or website pages and outputs them as a set of simple HTML files that can be hosted on any web server.

Cyberspace. The freshest frontier.¹

These are the voyages of the cybership n00b, on its continuing mission to seek out new synergies and explore new business relationships. To boldly go where no information security model has gone before.

If companies don't smarten up and start taking security seriously, they might find that the tech frontier can burn them worse than they can possibly imagine.

This is what happened to Sony Pictures². This is what happened to Lenovo³. And if it happened to those companies, it can happen to yours.

There are a few things your company can do that might help prevent a catastrophic embarrassment.