Dropsafe

In case you missed it, me and some other folk in the Sun security community are trying something a little bit different. Security has always been a problematic topic for a corporation to discuss, except in the narrow sense of products that do some small security thing. You know what I mean – virus scanning,

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Flickr user? Old Skool Flickr user who’s been with them for a long time? This morning, then, you’ll probably have been faced with a big glaring ugly splash screen like this: The people at Flickr probably have heard this, but in case not: boys, that’s a big oops. It’s bossy, ugly, and offers no value

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Further to my thoughts about how to measure the growth of your readership, I hacked up a bit of perl which went sniffing for instances of %d reader(s) or %d subscriber(s) amongst my Apache logs, and boiled down the results. /dropsafe/index.rss 46 readers via Feedfetcher-Google /dropsafe/index.rss 38 readers via Bloglines/3.1 /dropsafe/index.rss 8 readers via NewsGatorOnline/2.0

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Cathy Seipp – a blogger and writer – is gravely ill in hospital and will soon die of complications of cancer; she may have died overnight. Yet when I was seeking for an update I found some twit has registered cathyseipp dot com – I’m not hyperlinking to it, type it into the browser bar

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Jim found a gem: “Give us a pencil. And a couple of those tees. And a Topic. No, not a Milky Way you arse, a Topic! All fecund in its nuttiness.” http://youtube.com/watch?v=p856CfM64w8 I’ve never got on with Joyce. Can’t be arsed to maintain a grip amongst the verbiage. I suspect Tim Caynes will love it,

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Following the Ian Murdock thread on Slashdot a /. commenter > Why would anyone even bother installing “true” Debian at this point? the debian that can be installed in 40 minutes is not the true debian. i used to have a debian Tshirt that said “it’s what your mom would use if it was 20

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A live toad every morning One effect of global warming is that the seasons are beginning earlier each year. As one sign of this, I saw a display of hot cross buns for sale in Coles on Wednesday, January 3rd – at least two weeks earlier than last year. (Via)

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el reg SXSW Science fiction writer and professional pundit Bruce Sterling has cracked bloggers with the extinction stick, saying the plebs will crawl back into their ooze by 2017. “There are 55 million blogs and some of them have got to be good,” Sterling said, during a speech here at the SXSW conference in reference

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Newsflash attached. I’ll let you know my thoughts on this, later. Phipps Ahoy! I’m delighted to be able to welcome a new colleague who’s starting with Sun today. He is starting a newly-defined role as Chief Operating Platforms Officer at Sun, and is responsible for building a new strategy to evolve both Sun’s Solaris and

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…time for The Broadmoor Siren! My nearest siren is about 8 miles away, and on a dampish day you can still hear the weird symphony of them all together. For those of us inclined to think in terms of security theatre, I suspect it qualifies: The siren was installed following a public outcry at the

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If you are in the London catchment area and are an Open Source geek, keep an eye on The Google London Open Source Jam page – I would link to an umbrella page on the Wiki, but onesuch does not seem to exist (?) although there are links for previous events they’ve done. This month

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I had dinner with Geoff tonight, and he mentioned this, of which I had not heard before: australianit APPLE may sell notebook computers without hard disks later this year, an analyst said. The devices would use the same type of fast memory as music players and digital cameras, driving down prices of hard-disk drives. The

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