Dropsafe

WTFs/m This ought to be adopted by our code review people… (tags: funny geek programming)

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There is no better metric of the success of OpenSolaris than the fact that I can no longer keep up even with the subset of OpenSolaris.org maillists to which I subscribe. Over 400 messages a day… I need a tool to read them for me.

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TinyApps.Org : AFP over SSH What if you want to mount a drive over Appletalk via SSH. It’s pretty easy… (tags: apple Security mac osx) Will VRM be commercial? « The Equity Kicker So here’s someone who thinks that the goal of VRM is to create startups, rather than to enable users? I wonder if

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You’re listening to your favorite Pink Floyd CD on your home stereo when you accidentally hit the “change CD” button on the control panel. All goes quiet for a bit as your CD player urgently shifts to play whatever is in the next tray. With dread, you desperately reach for the volume knob, but it’s

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     We visited Versailles a couple weeks ago (summary: happy to have seen it but it’s too crowded and the audio guide was disappointing. It just reiterates what most people already know, nothing about how Versailles worked — who actually built it, who did the daily chores and how or where they lived…). Sadly enough the

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  “The chief pathologist Doctor Michel Durigon decided it was time to create a Salle des Departs, a place where families and friends could come to say goodbye to their loved ones without, as he says, ‘having to suffer sickly background music and a red carpet.’ The result was a commission for a groundbreaking piece

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ACC RIP

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SecurityProPortal.com It’s a shame when website feeds don’t come up to spec; then you have to revisit the site all the time, and then that slides… (tags: security itproportal)

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Charles Bremner – Times Online – WBLG: Don’t mess with the camembert, say French cheese experts Smelly French cheese caused me once to be ordered off a Russian train by border guards during the Cold War. They suspected that I was travelling with something lethal. I was bringing back to Moscow a supply of Reblochon,

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I don’t follow the US elections very much, but I can recognise from miles away the tone of a someone from the Internet age colliding with a lumbering public relations mechanoid; some call it “fisking”, others call it “flaming”, doubtless some will call it “unprofessional”… but I call it a bellwether of the generation gap

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No, I haven’t flipped out. My colleague Brian Herman has been watching Lessig, Hardt and me, and has correctly intuited the reasons why that presentation style is so successful – which he clearly articulates in the first couple of minutes of his own, first-ever, presentation: It’s worth listening to, and it almost makes Project Managment,

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Moblog test Originally uploaded by alecmuffett The current setup…

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