Archive for April, 2008

Disaster at the HakHouse. Part 2 - Demolition brings upgrades

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

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Hak5 Mini-Meetup: Springfield, Missouri

Friday, April 25th, 2008

I'm in Springfield, Missouri for the weekend visiting Shannon while the guys hold down the fort. And by hold down the fort I really mean live in a hotel while the HakHouse is gutted and rebuilt. So if you're in the area and want to get together with Shannon, myself, and ...

Disaster at the HakHouse. Part 1

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

I'm making a note here, epic fail. Yesterday I came home from work to find the HakHouse a wet soggy mess. A pipe burst above the kitchen that flooded the entire downstairs and parts of the upstairs. Everything is wet. Everything is soggy. The place wreaks of fail. The cause? Crappy ...

Siege of the Zombie Hookers

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Anyone who has known me from irc.hak5.org over the last three years probably knows about the Zombie Hookers. And tonight for the first time I decided to Google the lovely undead ladies of the night. This video was made for the Grindhouse Trailer contest. I'm normally not one for the ...

Would you like a history lesson with that?

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Brandon points out on a recent post that my Google Maps directions from Springfield, Missouri to Williamsburg, VA end on Rochambeau Dr. Indeed the road is named after Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau, a French noblemen who served as Lieutenant General in the American Revolution. In 1781 he led 5,000 French troops from ...

Hak5 production. A story of trial, error and learning at the speed of failure.

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Failing isn’t exactly something I look forward to. In fact I tend to avoid it if possible. However I have come to embrace learning from failure rather than fearing it. With innovation comes risk and with risk comes falling on your face. And after three years of podcasting I nearly ...