Sunday, August 11, 2013
Beauty Blog Coalition Weekly Roundup: August 11, 2013 Edition
Fun Fierce Fabulous Beauty Over 50!: Find out why Sephora's $16 Black Magic Palette is getting rave reviews!
Mama Fashionista: Quinn shares her latest and greatest favorites from Smashbox Cosmetics!
Lola's Secret Beauty Blog: The Organic Pharmacy Rose Plus Marine Collagen Complex is a potent and highly effective anti-aging product that REALLY beats the competition!
BeautyTidbits: A
The Beauty Blogazons Weekly Roundup: August 11, 2013 Edition
Beauty by Miss L: Miss L is loving Queen Helene Mint Julep Natural Facial Scrub which is mechanical scrub, but doesn't feel harsh on your skin.
Mama Fashionista: Quinn shares a new way to use your facial exfoliating pads for beautiful, summer skin!
Lola's Secret Beauty Blog: Love a gorgeous ethereal glow? Then Burberry Fresh Glow is a brilliant choice, and it is back in stock!
TheFabZilla: Do
Back from Paradise
We're baaaack!!!! We arrived home early Saturday morning and were greeted with a cool 93 degree weather in our no air con car....it made for a lovely ride home from the airport. Although, I must say, we didn't care much seeing as how we're still on vacation high from all the things we've seen this past week. It was also nice to be able to just unplug, relax, and spend time 'in the moment'.
I now know why people fall in love with Cambodia when they visit. It's such a vibrant culture, with fantastic food and even kinder people. We actually started scheming ways that we could move there. It's a habit of ours anytime we travel abroad. Some people call it fickle, we'd like to just think of ourselves as dreamers...and indecisive.
I can't wait to fill you all in on our adventures wandering the streets of Shanghai (which the photo is of. Since we had a 10 hour layover there we decided to go and explore a surrounding area), venturing through temple ruins in Angkor and our motorbike trip from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap (which I'm just now starting to get the feeling back in my bum from being on a bike for that long). So stay tuned these next couple weeks!
In other news....
And FINALLY, in case you missed it on Ms. Melyssa's blog, here are the August pairings for the Snail Mail Collective! By now, I hope that most of you have seen these and contacted your partner, but if not, go check up on the rules and contact your new blog friend! Remember, this month's theme is 'Under the Sea' get creative and have some fun with it!
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| Zhujiajiao region in Shanghai |
I now know why people fall in love with Cambodia when they visit. It's such a vibrant culture, with fantastic food and even kinder people. We actually started scheming ways that we could move there. It's a habit of ours anytime we travel abroad. Some people call it fickle, we'd like to just think of ourselves as dreamers...and indecisive.
I can't wait to fill you all in on our adventures wandering the streets of Shanghai (which the photo is of. Since we had a 10 hour layover there we decided to go and explore a surrounding area), venturing through temple ruins in Angkor and our motorbike trip from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap (which I'm just now starting to get the feeling back in my bum from being on a bike for that long). So stay tuned these next couple weeks!
In other news....
SNAIL MAIL COLLECTIVE AUGUST PAIRINGS!
Pikachu (Birthday) Makeup Tutorial!
A couple of week�s ago I went to a fancy dress party and the theme was �Favourite Childhood Characters�. It really wasn�t a difficult decision at all for me who I adored growing up (apart from Count Duckula) it was of course Pikachu. I have been obsessed with Pokemon since it hit my TV at the age of about 13, I have every episode of the original TV series on DVD and have completed both red, blue, yellow and diamond editions of the game on my multiple gameboys.
Now, being as it�s my birthday today (I�m 25, so old!) I decided to upload my Pikachu tutorial in ode to my childhood. If you are ever in need to look like a pokemon, look no further!
Pikachu!
I really hope you enjoy this video. Do subscribe to my YouTube channel (it�d make my day) and let me know what your favourite Pokemon was, maybe I�ll do their tutorial next! For now, I�m back to birthday celebrations!
Who was your favourite childhood character?
xxx
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Sixty Lions on the Ellis Hotel's Cornice - Really - I Counted Them
The Ellis Hotel was the Winecoff Hotel, scene of a tragic fire, December 7, 1946, in which 119 people died. Allen Goodwin's Winecoff Fire Remembrance Page is a moving, historical reminder. Another Atlanta tragedy, the Orly Crash in 1962, killed 130.
That needs to be said, but this is the Archtiecture Tourist and we are here to talk about sixty lions on the cornice.
The Winecoff opened in 1913. William Lee Stoddart designed it as well as the Georgian Terrace and the Ponce Apartments.
Can you see the lions from down here?
I'd never have noticed except that whitespace put together an exposition for Stanley Beaman & Sears studio on the top floor of "Davisons" featuring art by Ann Stewart and Seana Reilly.
This was a 3-fer: Art, Architecture, Elevation so I went.
When I got out of the elevator on the 6th floor, the Ellis cornice was right in my face.
What do you think of the cornice detailing? And it has lions.
Lions-in-the-cornice has been a good look for a long time. See The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Limestone cornice with a lion�s head early 4th century B.C..
I had to count them.
The south cornice has three
The east cornice (facing Peachtree Street) has 25.
The north cornice (facing Ellis Street) has 29
The west cornice has three.
But what's the story on Lion 45?
View Larger Map
That needs to be said, but this is the Archtiecture Tourist and we are here to talk about sixty lions on the cornice.
The Winecoff opened in 1913. William Lee Stoddart designed it as well as the Georgian Terrace and the Ponce Apartments.
Can you see the lions from down here?
I'd never have noticed except that whitespace put together an exposition for Stanley Beaman & Sears studio on the top floor of "Davisons" featuring art by Ann Stewart and Seana Reilly.
This was a 3-fer: Art, Architecture, Elevation so I went.
When I got out of the elevator on the 6th floor, the Ellis cornice was right in my face.
What do you think of the cornice detailing? And it has lions.
Lions-in-the-cornice has been a good look for a long time. See The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Limestone cornice with a lion�s head early 4th century B.C..
I had to count them.
The south cornice has three
The east cornice (facing Peachtree Street) has 25.
The north cornice (facing Ellis Street) has 29
The west cornice has three.
But what's the story on Lion 45?
View Larger Map
Daily Blog #49: Sunday Funday 8/11/13
Hello Reader,
It's that time again, Sunday Funday time! For those not familiar every Sunday I throw down the forensic gauntlet by asking a tough question. To the winner go the accolades of their peers and prizes hopefully worth the time they put into their answer. This week I am changing things up and letting the winner pick their choice of prizes!
The Prize:
The Challenge:
This week on the forensic lunch we have been talking about OSX and timemachine forensics. So let's have a OSX/Timemachine Challenge!
You have been given a timemachine drive that had multiple systems backing up to it over the network. After imaging it you need to determine what has been done, answer the following questions:
1. What are the different types of backups you could find on a timemachine drive
2. How can you distinguish which hosts backup you are looking at
3. How would you extract a single backup for a specific date
4. What is the difference between a timemachine backup and a .mobilebackup
There, thats not too bad now is it? I look forward to your answers!
It's that time again, Sunday Funday time! For those not familiar every Sunday I throw down the forensic gauntlet by asking a tough question. To the winner go the accolades of their peers and prizes hopefully worth the time they put into their answer. This week I am changing things up and letting the winner pick their choice of prizes!
The Prize:
- Winner's Choice A year license of Accessdata Triage or a Advanced Training Track ticket to PFIC
The Rules:
- You must post your answer before Midnight PST (GMT -7)
- The most complete answer wins
- You are allowed to edit your answer after posting
- If two answers are too similar for one to win, the one with the earlier posting time wins
- Be specific and be thoughtful
- Anonymous entries are allowed, please email them to dcowen@g-cpartners.com
- In order for an anonymous winner to receive a prize they must give their name to me, but i will not release it in a blog post
The Challenge:
This week on the forensic lunch we have been talking about OSX and timemachine forensics. So let's have a OSX/Timemachine Challenge!
You have been given a timemachine drive that had multiple systems backing up to it over the network. After imaging it you need to determine what has been done, answer the following questions:
1. What are the different types of backups you could find on a timemachine drive
2. How can you distinguish which hosts backup you are looking at
3. How would you extract a single backup for a specific date
4. What is the difference between a timemachine backup and a .mobilebackup
There, thats not too bad now is it? I look forward to your answers!
Dupe Alert: Chanel Rouge Coco Shine in Boy & Hourglass Femme Rouge Velvet Crème Lipstick in Edition!
When I reviewed Hourglass Femme Rouge Velvet Crème Lipstick in Edition, Sara made the comment that it reminded her of her favorite Chanel Rouge Coco Shine in Boy- which was precisely what I had thought when I swatched it.
I decided to find Boy and swatch them to see, and wouldn't you know it- they are nearly identical!
In fact, so much so that if you have one and are considering
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Mata Thai | Affordable Thai Food
28th July 2013
Mata Thai is located near the CPF Building at Bishan. It is my third time visiting this neighbourhood Thai restaurant and I always find the food to be okay. Their strength seemed to lie in their main courses and for a Thai restaurant, I am convinced they can’t do Thai desserts.
It is my first time trying their Fish Head Curry which was recommended by my sister and brother-in-law and although I am not sure how Thai is this dish. That doesn’t matter because this is some good stuff. The curry was really good together with their white rice. My gripe with this dish however is the fish. The flesh was a bit chalky which could be a sign of frozen fish. Then again, maybe it is just the kind of fish they use. I am happy with the curry.
I wanted to order Phad Thai but in some confusion it ended up as Tang Hoon with Prawns (6.00 SGD). They are very generous with the prawns. The stir-fried glass noodles was decent too.
Desserts were a let-down. The Tapioca was tasteless and the Mango Sticky Rice just didn’t make the cut with its dried out glutinous rice and slices of sour mango. Overall, I think I would come back again for the main courses and skip the desserts. The prices are wallet-friendly here too. The total bill was about 10-15 per pax with drinks, rice, desserts and main courses included.
Mata Thai
#01-390, Blk 508
Bishan Street 11
Joe & Dough | Bread for the Average Joe
3rd August 2013.
After much research, bouncing of messages on Facebook with my two fellow Moose, I surrendered (I can't beat them when it comes to argumentative) and let them decide the place to meet up and to my delight we meet at somewhere really affordable at Millennia Walk.
Let’s just say company and affordability were the saving grace here. The Vanilla Latte (5.80 SGD) was not bad but the Croissant (2.80 SGD) was disappointing. While I appreciate that they warm it up for you, this croissant is comparable to those served on planes. It deflates the moment you hold it in your hand and lacks the buttery fragrance I seek.
Joe & Dough
Millenia Walk
9 Raffles Boulevard #02-31
Singapore 039596
They have another outlet at Marina Bay Link Mall as well.
Opening Hours:
Mon - Fri : 0730 - 1900
Weekend & P.H : 0900 - 1900
Daily Blog #48: Saturday Reading 8/10/13
Hello Reader,
It's Saturday! Hooray! The week is over and fedex pickup ends earlier today meaning you either have extra time in the lab or a some time at home. Either way, get some coffee and lets get our forensic reading going.
1. Joachim Metz has updated his volume shadow specification paper, not this week bu recently enough that I didn't read it until this week. If you are at all curious about how the volume shadow service data structures are stored then read this for what I believe to be the most detailed guide outside of whatever internal team at Microsoft developed it. In addition if you care more about the usage of volume shadow copies in your analysis and the existence of unallocated space in VSC's you should read this paper he presented which will answer questions you didn't even know you had.
2. Did you read yesterday's blog? No? Oh well we had another Forensic Lunch with David Nides, Kyle Maxwell, Joseph Shaw and the fine fellows I work with at G-C Partners. Tune in and keep up with what I think was a great hour of forensic discussion.
3. Andrea London has posted the slides for her talk at DefCon http://www.strozfriedberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/DefCon-2013.pdf tilted 'The Evidence Self Destructing Message Apps Leave Behind'. Her talk covers a wider base of these applications than I've seen covered before and it's a good read as she and Kyle O'Meara go deep into the file system internals and network traffic exchanged.
4. Lenny Zeltser posted a nice retrospective of how teaching Malware Analysis has grown, http://blog.zeltser.com/post/57795714681/teaching-malware-analysis-and-the-expanding-corpus-of. It's a nice short read and reinforced the idea that his advice remains the same 10 years later:
It's Saturday! Hooray! The week is over and fedex pickup ends earlier today meaning you either have extra time in the lab or a some time at home. Either way, get some coffee and lets get our forensic reading going.
1. Joachim Metz has updated his volume shadow specification paper, not this week bu recently enough that I didn't read it until this week. If you are at all curious about how the volume shadow service data structures are stored then read this for what I believe to be the most detailed guide outside of whatever internal team at Microsoft developed it. In addition if you care more about the usage of volume shadow copies in your analysis and the existence of unallocated space in VSC's you should read this paper he presented which will answer questions you didn't even know you had.
2. Did you read yesterday's blog? No? Oh well we had another Forensic Lunch with David Nides, Kyle Maxwell, Joseph Shaw and the fine fellows I work with at G-C Partners. Tune in and keep up with what I think was a great hour of forensic discussion.
3. Andrea London has posted the slides for her talk at DefCon http://www.strozfriedberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/DefCon-2013.pdf tilted 'The Evidence Self Destructing Message Apps Leave Behind'. Her talk covers a wider base of these applications than I've seen covered before and it's a good read as she and Kyle O'Meara go deep into the file system internals and network traffic exchanged.
4. Lenny Zeltser posted a nice retrospective of how teaching Malware Analysis has grown, http://blog.zeltser.com/post/57795714681/teaching-malware-analysis-and-the-expanding-corpus-of. It's a nice short read and reinforced the idea that his advice remains the same 10 years later:
- Too many variables to research without assistance
- Ask colleagues, search Web sites, mailing lists, virus databases
- Share your findings via personal Web sites, incidents and malware mailing lists
5. If you are doing USB device forensics and have a Windows 8 system that Woanware's USB Device Forensics application does not support yet then check out TzWork's USB Storage Parser. So far its the only tool that I have that take the multiple Windows 8 USB artifacts and combines them to a single report of activity.
6. Hal Pomeranz put out a new Command Line Kung Fu entry this week, http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2013/08/episode-169-move-me-maybe.html, always a good read.
7. On an earlier Forensic Lunch you may have heard Rob Fuller talk about anti-forensic hard drive custom firmwares. Going more into that topic here is a great article about Hard Drive hacking and showing how these firmware changes are researched, implemented and performed. If you are dealing with an advanced subject you might want to be aware of these new possibilities! http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack
8. In this week Forensic Lunch we talked about parsing carved binary plists. For those of you looking to implement your own parsers or just try to understand the format better here are two sources. The first is the OSX code for binary plists, http://opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-550/CFBinaryPList.c, and a great write up on plist forensics by CCL http://www.cclgroupltd.com/images/property%20lists%20in%20digital%20forensics%20new.pdf.
That's all I have for this Saturday Reading. I hope these links are enough to get you through your day. Tomorrow is Sunday Funday and I have yet another challenge waiting for you to solve. This week we will have 'winners choice' where the winner can pick from a free ticket to PFIC or a year license to AccessData's Triage tool!
Friday, August 9, 2013
Daily Blog #47: Forensic Lunch 8/9/13
Hello Reader,
Going to try something different today and see if I can embed our Forensic Lunch live stream in the blog!
Forensic Lunch is something we are trying to do every Friday where we talk about updates to research from around the community as well as our challenges and successes here in the G-C Lab. If all goes well you can watch the show either love or recorded in the embedded Youtube below!
Going to try something different today and see if I can embed our Forensic Lunch live stream in the blog!
Forensic Lunch is something we are trying to do every Friday where we talk about updates to research from around the community as well as our challenges and successes here in the G-C Lab. If all goes well you can watch the show either love or recorded in the embedded Youtube below!
Tomorrow is Saturday Reading and I have some good articles and papers to pass on and don't forget Sunday for our weekly forensic contest!
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