Dropsafe

🙂

(more…)

20 years ago this would have required Esther Rantzen and be limited tot he UK; or Nader and the US; and it would be too geeky to get coverage. This is what happens when people can speak for themselves, to each other. Backlash: Creative Sparks Customer Revolt When It Tries To Silence Third-Party Programmer Imagine…

(more…)

Good food I’ve not had “roti prata” (yet), but the Hainanese chicken rice, the Chinese dumplings (at Din Tai Fung), the noodle soup (from some place in Food Republic) and the sushi (at Sushi Tei in Ngee Ann City) as well as pretty much any other meal (from nameless places in food courts near the office or hotel) were…

(more…)

One of the other big issues I have with “surprise” parties is that the list of attendees reflects the views of whom it is who is organising it, rather than the list of whom is important to [oneself]. It’s ironic that I spend a lot of my life either railing against systems which take autonomy…

(more…)

Peter cites me in the following video interview he did with Shel Israel: Sun Micro’s Peter Reiser Talks Communities | FastCompany.TV As the chief architect of Sun’s Community Equity 2.0 (CE2.0) project, Peter Reiser is considering the place of the individual in a social network from the perspective of a computer scientist, a sociologist, a…

(more…)

Human security failures, simply demonstrated: How to beat tight security? Just be the DJ…

(more…)

Well, it’s coming up – about a month away and I am torn; I don’t know how to describe the sensation, but I don’t really care about “the big 4.0.” and all that jazz, but I also care enough about not caring about it that… I dunno, it’s kind of a nuisance. For my 30th…

(more…)

WTFs/m This ought to be adopted by our code review people… (tags: funny geek programming)

(more…)

There is no better metric of the success of OpenSolaris than the fact that I can no longer keep up even with the subset of OpenSolaris.org maillists to which I subscribe. Over 400 messages a day… I need a tool to read them for me.

(more…)

TinyApps.Org : AFP over SSH What if you want to mount a drive over Appletalk via SSH. It’s pretty easy… (tags: apple Security mac osx) Will VRM be commercial? « The Equity Kicker So here’s someone who thinks that the goal of VRM is to create startups, rather than to enable users? I wonder if…

(more…)

You’re listening to your favorite Pink Floyd CD on your home stereo when you accidentally hit the “change CD” button on the control panel. All goes quiet for a bit as your CD player urgently shifts to play whatever is in the next tray. With dread, you desperately reach for the volume knob, but it’s…

(more…)

     We visited Versailles a couple weeks ago (summary: happy to have seen it but it’s too crowded and the audio guide was disappointing. It just reiterates what most people already know, nothing about how Versailles worked — who actually built it, who did the daily chores and how or where they lived…). Sadly enough the…

(more…)