Dropsafe

if you are reading this, did you borrow my unabridged stranger in a strange land? it seems to have gone missing…

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i’ve installed a robots.txt file, due to the inordinate amount of indexing performed by no-name search engines for no apparently useful end. i will be watching the results with interest, but in the meantime do please let me know if this causes you, dear human reader, any problems.

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read neil’s bio at [www.fiddlersgreencon.org]

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Getting up, going outside, and seeing a Douglas DC-3 Dakota fly over Prepping the bike, and going out with Tony for a observed ride; getting out as far as Winchester Watching a F-117A Nighthawk fly over, as I rode the back roads around Basingstoke. Getting home, parking-up, only for an Avro Lancaster to fly over…

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august 2003 – average 1957 hits per day july 2004 – average 5600 hits per day not quite trebling traffic in 1 year, but not far off…

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For people who are wondering what the time flies posting was all about, see the explanation at [html] Of course the follow up to that particular tale will investigate the question: Time flies do what, precisely, when you’re having fun?

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I have a white ceramic flowerpot in my kitchen, fitted-out with a wooden T-bar that converts it into a “knock-bin” for coffee grounds and other organic, compostable waste. It was filled with a few days’ worth of waste – the tag ends of some lettuce, a bit of banana skin (etc) when I noticed a…

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Simply put: the problem with reusable passwords as a form of authentication is that there are too few of them. This goes for all sorts of passwords in the modern day, not just Unix passwords; I find the latter particularly egregios for reasons that I will explain another time, but for the moment let’s speak…

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Neat photo hardware hack; harder to do in metric Britain where you can’t easily source 1/4″ 20tpi Whitworth bolts anymore (unless you know a good ironmonger) but good, nonetheless. [www.jakeludington.com]

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My friends Jim and Catrin are engaged! [found.pale.org] “My, it was only a mere 16 years ago that he and I were getting drunk under tables, hacking computers and behaving like utter students…”

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Andrew mentions this Register-Article which he deftly summarises: UK “accelerated learning” company recently did a survey of the contents of MP3 players owned by various types of IT professionals and found relationships between career niches and musical tastes. Microsoft weenies, apparently, are into shiny mainstream pop like Britney Spears and Dido, penguinheads are into “electro”…

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one of these days, maryam abacha (sic) really is going to get an e-mail account; at which point nobody is going to believe her…

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