I’m 19 today. However, this comes with no new privileges or abilities. 2 more years until I can drink, 6 more until I can rent a car, etc. Still, it’s been a good birthday so far.

Recently, I’ve been playing a bit of Second Life (Wikipedia has a good page on it here). This is not so much a MMORPG as a virtual world, a metaverse if you will. There is no set of goals or levels in second life like a game. Second Life allows you to interact with other […]

Dear Benjamin E. Seidenberg,
Thank you for booking your travel on continental.com. Your flight purchase is confirmed. Your eTicket Itinerary and Receipt will be sent separately.
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Travel Summary
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Confirmation Number: XXXXXX
CO334 - Raleigh/Durham, NC (RDU) to New York/Newark, NJ (EWR - Liberty) on
Fri., Jun. 15, 2007
CO108 - New York/Newark, NJ (EWR - Liberty) to Edinburgh, Scotland (EDI) on
Fri., […]

Introduction:
This guide will walk you through the creation of an encrypted filesystem using LUKS. LUKS is the Linux Unified Key Setup and is a standard format for linux hard disk encryption. It has a lot of interesting features such as using a key on a removable disk, keeping multiple keys, and more. This is the […]

Dear Benjamin Seidenberg!

Your account ‘benjamin’ has just been created in the central LDAP
database of the Debian project. Please note that it needs a bit of time
until this information is synced with all developer-accessible machines.
You should be able to login or upload packages after about 30-60 minutes.
The password for this account can be found appended […]

Thjis: This is the right time to automatically search for RC bugs. So was a year ago. Although we want the RC bug count to drop, an RC bug is still an RC bug regardless of whether we know about it or not. And many RC bugs didn’t exist a year ago. Take for example […]

One thing that has always appealed to me about Debian is the strength of the community behind it. A somewhat recent incident has reminded me of how strong this community really is. When several members of the Debian community became concerned about a situation in the life of another member, they immediately tried to contact […]

[This is the first post in the new “Cornell” Category]
Well, my room looks quite empty and the van is quite full. We weren’t sure if all the stuff we were planning on taking was going to fit, but it did. Now, the question is will it fit in the 10×10 dorm room that is typical […]

Today marks the 1 year anniversary of my application to become a Debian Developer. Here is an approximate break down of my time in the NM Queue:
Waiting for advocate: 2.5 weeks (This should have been shorter, I had my advocate lined up, but then there was a question about me signing the key of the […]

One of my former teachers told a reporter from the local paper that I had just gotten back from Israel and he called me to set up an interview to get my views on the recent conflict. I met with him monday, and the story is now in print. I haven’t seen where in the […]