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Reality drama at the Creation Museum
Tipped off by today’s CIDOMLB cartoon I went and checked-out http://answersingenesis.org/museum/: [answersingenesis.org] We’re not talking about so-called reality TV,’ which places real people in unrealistic situations and throws in a bizarre twist at the end. At the Creation Museum special effects theater, you’ll see true stories from the Bible, not embellished with unrealistic subplots. And…
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Dropsafe Look-and-Feel
Yes, yes, I know the colours are a fright, but I am working on the blog in my spare time, seeking to improve rendering speed and readability, and I am using the new colours to try and spot issues, and to help me unify my CSS and make the whole blog’s look more switchable/tweakable. On…
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Gallery of Airline Food.
I am surprised this guy didn’t get booked for being a potential terrorist: [www.flickr.com]
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Microsoft Readies ‘A1’ Security Subscription Service ??!?
If this article is correct: [www.microsoft-watch.com] Microsoft’s anti-virus/anti-spyware strategy is taking shape. Sources say Redmond’s prepping a fee-based bundle, which could go beta soon. …am I the only person who thinks that this would be potential corporate marketing suicide, in the vein of some hypothetical product marketers who might be saying: Nah mate, nuts to…
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Java: A language to teach novice programmers?
I just got asked by a colleague on AIM: Gilles: Question for you. What language would you suggest for somebody who wants to “learn to program”… something easy, yet with good concepts… …and the attached is my response and justification. I’d be interested in what other people have used to teach modern newbies the essentials…
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the best bit about my bike…
it’s not that i’m an overgrown schoolboy or something, but sometimes i wonder whether the nicest thing about my bike isn’t how that at low-revs it sounds like a WW1 fighter plane, but at high-revs it sounds like a fighter jet…
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X-Ray Security Scanners at Heathrow
Chris Gerhard cited this article in The Register: [www.theregister.co.uk] A Register reader passes us an eye-witness account of progress with the see through clothes scanner currently being tested at Heathrow Terminal 4. As one might expect from a country that deploys stuff without considering health implications, the testing is splendidly incoherent, and unlikely to produce…
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History of bombings in the UK
Incidentally, this is an interesting page of bombing-related history taken from [news.bbc.co.uk] Bombings 31 Oct 1971: Bomb explodes in Post Office tower 22 Feb 1972: IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks 06 Sep 1972: Olympic hostages killed in gun battle 19 Sep 1972: Parcel bomb attack on Israeli embassy 10 Sep 1973: Bomb blasts…
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terrorism isn’t everywhere
I’ve spent more than a week marveling that there has been no coverage of the terrible threat of global terrorism, chiefly because the world has had it driven home that when Mother Nature wants to create havoc, she can kill fifty times as many people as the 9/11 terrorists with just a little slip of…
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“Advise for the young”
I just received this: To Alec Muffett, I’m a 19yr Australia male, and interested in taking up a career in I.T. Security. What i would like to know from you is do you have any recommendation as to where to begin to learn about I.T security. I have read your site and it’s one of…
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Banbury Chocolate Factory
OK, this is driving me crazy; on the southbound M40, as you pass into Oxfordshire, approaching the Banbury junctions the Prodrive building will be on your right, and from somewhere will come the aroma of chocolate, or perhaps coffee beans, being roasted or otherwise cooked. The scent is not strong, but it is consistent, and…