April 1, 2008
Thanks to the design department at Addison Wesley, I have a proposal for a cover page of my upcoming book:

This is really exciting. I have been working on the book for over a year now and finally it seems that the end is in sight. I have three chapters completely done and they should appear in a rough-cuts program, as an electronic pre-version, very soon (next three weeks). Another three chapters I got back from my awesome review committee and then there are three chapters I still have to finish writing.
Applied Security Visualization should be available by Black Hat at the beginning of August. I will do anything I can to get it out by then.
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January 28, 2007
I haven’t written about VIM in a long time. Although I am using the editor daily. Finally, I fixed some HTML errors on the
VIM page and added some comments about the new features in Version 7 of VIM.
December 6, 2005
I find myself adding data to files that need to be randomized. Well, just call awk from within vi and use the rand() function
:%!awk ‘BEGIN {srand()}; {if (int(rand()*4)==2) {printf(“\%s,S\n”,$0)} else print $0;}’
Maybe even a bit more comfortable AND this only adds to the lines if they don’t use SA, S or F
:%!awk ‘BEGIN {srand()} \!/(SA|S|F)$/ {if (int(rand()*4)==2) {sub(/$/,”FA”);}};{print}’
I need to remember this one:
:g/some text/s/$/,more_data
This will add another column of data to all the lines with “some text”. Simple but useful.