Being sick can suck it. I'm beginning to think there is something wrong with me. I've been sick about 4 times so far this year. That's just not right.

What the hell am I doing wrong?

Also, I've been watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia on http://hulu.com

There is some relief in that. It makes me feel a bit better.

I got an awesome birthday card from my Grandma in Florida, that helps too.

Otherwise, nothing good to report right now.


Feeling like I could use another vacation.

I think I need a change of pace. I should do something different for a while.

I'm thinking more Linux maybe? More teaching maybe?

Maybe I should move somewhere else to see what that's like. Any suggestions?

I never thought I'd be able to say this, but I'm contributing to an open source project.

I'm pretty damn excited about it.

I use Wireshark almost every day to decode all sorts of voip messages. One thing that has always bothered me is not all the SCCP messages (the protocol used to control Cisco IP phones) are decoded properly. I would wind up referring back to the standard and decoding the hex. Ugh.

Thanks to the wonderful world of open source I can fix this.

Here's the dissector for sccp packets.

I've got my build environment all setup with SVN syncing the source from the wireshark repository.


I've compiled the code from SVN and it worked right off the bat!

Next step:

Make my modifications to packet-skinny.c and compile it again. I've got a slew of SCCP packet captures to test against.

I would love to have my name in the AUTHORS file of Wireshark. How bad ass would that be?

Wish me luck!