Archive for the tag 'San Francisco'

Feb 23 2008

San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade

It’s that time of year again, and it was a very wet one. Why couldn’t they have the parade in March like last year? And because of the rain, I didn’t get to see many costumes or even floats with people on it before the parade started. Miss Chinatown didn’t even come out yet by […]

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Jan 24 2008

OWASP-SF Meeting

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Tonight was another good OWASP Bay Area meeting. Over 50 people attended the meeting, and I hope these numbers continue to rise.

The first talk was on Adobe Flash security. Here are my notes:

Cross-site flashing takes advantage of the html flash parameter allowscriptaccess=always
Stefano Di Paola released SWFIntruder a few months ago to help analyze Flash applications […]

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Jan 22 2008

2007 Crunchies Award Ceremony

Last Friday was the 2007 Crunchies award ceremony at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. This was my first time attending the award ceremony, and I had a great time. The Crunchies is an annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. It […]

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Oct 10 2007

Engadget SF Reader Meetup

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Wow, it was pretty crazy at the Engadget reader meetup today. For the first 200 people, a 4gb Sandisk Sansa Connect with WiFi was given, and for the next 250 people, a free Flickr Pro account was given. But by the time I got there, the line was around the corner!

And by the time I […]

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Oct 05 2007

OWASP-SF Meeting

Yesterday was another great OWASP meeting by the SF chapter. The lineup included Ivan Ristic, who talked about web application firewalls (WAF), and Neil Daswani, who talked about emerging security vulnerabilities and the impact to business.
The meeting was held at Golden Gate University, a place I didn’t even know existed, even though I pass it […]

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Sep 03 2007

Kung Fu Tournament

Last Saturday, the Tat Wong Kung Fu Academy had its annual in-house tournament at Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco.

The day started off with the lions escorting all the students in for the national anthem. Following that were amazing performances from the various sihings, sijehs, and sifus from the various schools.

During the tournament […]

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