In the four weeks that the ask me anything post has been up, I’ve received two questions. My father wanted to know when I was going to call my mother, and my mother asked what a “blog” was. The third question arrived just as I began typing this post. My friend Katherine, she of the photography critique, writes:

Oooh, I have a good one: when are you going to update your damn blog?

You know, if you’re having writer’s block, I could contribute as a guest writer. Then again, the only articles I can think of right now are “How to make awesome cheese sticks,” “The optical properties of cyanobacteria”, or “How to attract pallid, underweight, socially maladjusted men.” I could write any of these articles with some level of expertise, but none of them go well with the computer security theme.

Maybe we should have some guest articles.

Okay, no, I received over three hundred questions, which is remarkable because I didn’t even know there were 300 people on the Internet. I’ll start sorting out the questions and answering the best ones in the coming weeks. To help you pass the time until then, I’m including above a gratuitous photograph from Boothbay Harbor in Maine, shot on July 4th. Which is an American national holiday celebrating Thomas Edison’s invention of fireworks in 1776.