About
My name is Daniel Miessler (\mē'slûr\) and I'm from Newark, California. I started this site in 1999, and today it serves primarily as my blog and the home for my /study and /writing resources.
Site Concept
The concept for the site is embodied by my site tagline "grep understanding knowledge" which translates in Unix-speak to "search for understanding within knowledge". The idea is to take a mess of disconnected knowledge about a subject and distill it into a true understanding that can be applied in real-world situations.
I find it quite rewarding to learn something once myself and then produce a resource that I and others can use as a reference. And not just as an informational reference, but as a way to learn or relearn the underlying concept of a given subject. And that's the primary function of the site -- maintaining an archive of my own such pieces on a myriad of topics.
The idea admittedly started out as a fairly selfish endeavor, i.e. me using the site to archive my own explanations of various technologies and protocols I needed to remain fluent in. As I began receiving positive feedback I decided to make more of an attempt to package the content for broader consumption. What you see here today is the result of that continuing effort.
Me
If I had to pick a single piece of semi-interesting trivia to share about myself I suppose it'd be the fact that my initials are DRM. To most geeks this is a rather negative term, which sort of puts a damper on me ever achieving the illustrious ESR or RMS status, i.e. being known as a three-letter acronym. Alas, nobody wants to be known as "that DRM guy."
At any rate, feel free to contact me if you have a question, a comment, a subject explanation request, or if you just want to say hello. Until then, I hope you find something here worth your time.:
