Dropsafe

[nytimes.com] [slashdot.org] “William Safire of the nytimes [nytimes.com] has an interesting column this week describing how the Soviets purchased bogus computer chips from the West in the 1970’s. The technology topping the Soviets’ wish list was for computer control systems to automate the operation of the new trans-Siberian gas pipeline. When we turned down their…

from ducati, whom else? [www.ducati.com] found at [blogs.motorbiker.org]

I’ve been expecting this for ages, and finally it has happened. Ontology. Today I received my first works e-mail that uses the word: Few devices share a common ontology today. …and I expect more. According to the dictionary, the word means: [dictionary.reference.com] The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being. or: 1.…

[www.waitrose.com] is a lovely place to go, especially if you time it towards the end of the month when a lot of stock is on knockdown.

a day of housecleaning and shoppery, followed by a hurricane. or at least, that’s what it sounds like at the moment. how’s you doing?

…old friend Marcus Ranum posits that it may well have been an al-Quaeda whale, combining biological / bacterial terror weapons and suicide bombing in a single convenient package.

buster just came to me to complain: the cat flap had frozen shut.

There is a page at Kevin Smith’s website [www.viewaskew.com] which features a clip – formerly only available on DVD, and then only with basic audio – that puts a rather different spin on Azrael’s bar-room scene. “Evil is an Abstract”.

Subject: blog clipping regarding “outsourcing” an interesting read at [www.ftrain.com] – not least as commentary upon and a pointer to another article… Initially, I found The Dark Side of the Outsourcing Revolution to be a breath of fresh air. The article seeks to see the growing debate over outsourcing (call centers, programming services, etc.) not…

Was the term “next generation” quite so prevalent in business circles *before* the first sequel series to Star Trek was broadcast?

[www.onelook.com] – A Reverse Dictionary Subtly different enough from a Thesaurus for me not to get snippy about calling it one.