But first, an image:
Model: Mirjana @ Fetish Evolution in Essen, Germany
We got home from the big trip on the 15th of April and two days later I had to fly up to Vancouver, BC to present ProxMon at CanSecWest. This wouldn't have been a big deal, but the day after we got to Essen (Germany), my laptop died. (I had backups - yay for paranioa!). So I got a new laptop (Thinkpad X60 Tablet) from work to replace my old one and spent the two days I was back getting it ready. After that debacle, I've gone to Linux for my laptop. I'm running Ubuntu and everything works, even the touch sensitive screen.
Vancouver was fun, I got to catch up with a bunch of old friends at the conference and also some non-hacker friends who live there now. The demo gods weren't as kind as at Black Hat and one (out of ~10) of my demos died thanks to Vista, but I think everyone got the point anyway. After CanSec, it was off to Whistler for some snowboarding. I went with
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enthemic and Jesse, though our two days turned into one after Jesse managed a mild concussion at the end of the first day.Once I was home, my friend Anthony (an Australian residing in London) was passing through on his way from CanSec to Coachella and Mexico and stayed with us on either end of that journey.
Martin (an old friend from Saskatoon) is also in the area and has been hanging out at my place and learning about computer security. I've been giving him a bit of a crash course.
Interspersed has been a pile of early morning surf jaunts to Santa Monica with Dom.