Dropsafe

my hotel bed is deeply weird – lumpy and high on one side, and low and squishy on the other. i worked out that the low and squishy side is the one from which the TV is most easily visible, implying that (a) most people in hotels watch TV from ther bed, and (b) the…

…and i am starting to feel it. i’m gonna set my alarm when i get back to the hotel and try to watch the football on ESPN, and then do it all again, tomorrow. not sure how i am gonna fill this evening, though.

it’s hot and sunny with temperatures around 100’F. so why am i in a conference room reading e-mail? 😎

it’s hot and sunny with temperatures around 100’F. so why am i in a conference room reading e-mail? 😎

From: Rob Evans <rhe@NOSC.JA.NET> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:04:42 BST Subject: Amendment to the RIP act… To: UK-SECURITY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Those with a political leaning (or an interest in privacy) might want to look at the newly updated STAND website: http://www.stand.org.uk/ In a nutshell, last year the RIP (Regulation of Investigatory Powers) Act was passed in…

time to wake up, and i have had nearly six hours sleep. from the experience of past trips, this is almost miraculous. it’s weird, though – no SMS, no mobile phone, no e-mail (mostly) – this would be fine when I am on holiday, but when i am meant to be working, i feel extremely…

time to wake up, and i have had nearly six hours sleep. from the experience of past trips, this is almost miraculous. it’s weird, though – no SMS, no mobile phone, no e-mail (mostly) – this would be fine when I am on holiday, but when i am meant to be working, i feel extremely…

The man in charge of archiving and maintaining electronic copies of Norway’s most important historical documents is dead and so is access to those archives. So the director of the Norwegian cultural center is pleading for hackers to help him crack the center’s password-protected database. URL: http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52997,00.html

well i am here in san jose. wheeeeeeeeeee… i am in the hotel, having been out for sushi with colleagues, plus a vendor who was a nice chap, even if we did have fun trying to cram into his saab 9000 aero with integral boat-mast and boom running the length of the car from trunk/boot…

well i am here in san jose. wheeeeeeeeeee… i am in the hotel, having been out for sushi with brad and jason and a chap from nortel/alteon who i had not met before, but who was a nice chap, even if we did have fun trying to cram into his saab 9000 aero with integral…

For those who are interested, I will be at Santa Clara campus, for most of next week, and will be staying at the Hyatt in San Jose. For fellow attendees: it appears that people are arranging all manner of official dinners and stuff for the Technology Leadership Council which I am visiting next week. I…

this is a test of a slightly cleaned-up suite of blog scripts… two people have prodded me so-far, saying that they want to start-up blogs of their own, so it is almost inevitable that they’ll want to have a go with my code, sometime…