Dropsafe

links: [www.geocities.com] and ([www.conceptlabs.co.uk] or [downlode.org] ) and [www.cryptorights.org] and my favourite: [www.maths.uwa.edu.au] which complements the more serious but equally useful [www.infidels.org] and [www.infidels.org] which have stood me in good stead as references for publicly deconstructing managementspeak for many, many years.

From my mate Gilles Gravier comes this minor amusement: [www.guimp.com] …try the “BreakOut” game. 😎

This one ought to go in RISKS-DIGEST: [story.news.yahoo.com] WILMINGTON, Del. – A vanity license tag chosen as a gag has left its owner holding the bag. Jim Cara thought the “NOTAG” plate he got for his Suzuki motorcycle would give people a laugh. Instead, he found that the laugh – along with more than 200…

Picture (c) 2003 Paul Shearsmith / Andrew Grantham Website [www.ajg41.clara.co.uk] One of the things that I cherish most about living in the UK is the flipside of one of the aspects that I detest most about my job, or indeed about working as any sort of researcher or technical person – a boffin, a geek,…

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

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.

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

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…

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…

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?

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…

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…