Dropsafe

Like most any geek, I tend to accrue “stuff” – neat stuff, tech stuff, books, etc – which tend to linger around the house; indeed a lot of it has been here longer than many people might consider normal, so I have a pretty good idea of what constitutes “un-necessary toys” versus “interesting antique, to

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Old to some, no doubt, but new to me: [www.cs.huji.ac.il] Remember those flat round things you may have found lying around the house. Those that never really worked well as flying saucers? Well, the other day I happenned to have a good look at one through a magnifying glass. I was able to discern something

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Working backwards through the UK’s 4-day weekend, a recap of what happened: Easter Sunday: Kitchen Flooding and a Convivial Dinner Like her pseudonymous namesake, my friend Bridget works in publishing, is beautiful, single, unnecessarily obsessed about her weight, has a disturbing enthusiasm for trashy pop culture, an insane mother, gets on extremely well with men

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small: [www.crypticide.com] medium: [www.geoffarnold.com] large: [doc.weblogs.com] One of the design decisions I made when my first website went up, one goal that I have maintained ever since, is to shoot for a “clean” style for ease of loading, rendering, and reading. By and large dropsafe is a single pull of HTML and should render fairly

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Clipping from a mail from my sister: [Hospitalised for a chest infection, my 97-year-old Uncle] Arthur has declared that this is it. He’s not eating and wants to go. He’s intending to hang on until Duncan gets there which should be lunchtime tomorrow – Wednesday. He does have a phone by the bed but I

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The main point of my testimony today is to make clear the extraordinary urgency of addressing the unregulated sale of personal information in the United States and how the data broker industry is contributing to the growing risk of identity theft in the United States. Whatever your views may be on the best general approach

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Working backwards through the UK’s 4-day weekend, a recap of what happened: Easter Bank Holiday Monday: Visit Alan Cox & Telsa Gwynne Swapping mail with Telsa a couple of weeks ago, I promised to come and visit her and Alan, and the Bank Holiday Monday was the soonest opportunity I had free to make the

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From Dave Walker’s blog, elsewhere: The UK quality press had quite a session of beating HP up in the immediately post-Carly days. In particular, The Times had an article in their business section on February 12th which not only described HP as an “ink company” (have they been listening to Scott, I wonder?), but also

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Has anyone reading this used Bias Inc’s Soundsoap ? I have a lot of automatic-gain-control-related hiss on the video from my digital camera; I’d like to clean it up a little, and Soundsoap seems a good candidate. I am not looking for hi-fi quality, but want to remove the artefacting and annoyance from these digital

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When writing a blog, reading a web page, or otherwise skimming some content that you actually need to comprehend properly, highlight the text and pull down the: [ApplicationName] > Services > Speech > Start Speaking Text …function, and have your Mac read it to you. Maybe I am getting old, but it’s amazingly easier to

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This was linked from the Banksy articles below; I’ll need to dig into what happened to him, since the technique appeals… Gallery linked from page. Artist Draws ‘Clean’ Graffiti from Dirty Walls Morning Edition, July 15, 2004 A British street artist known as Moose creates graffiti by cleaning dirt from sidewalks and tunnels — sometimes

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‘Hang-and-Run’ Artist Strikes NYC Museums All Things Considered, March 24, 2005 In a reverse-theft of sorts, a British artist has been sneaking his works into some of New York’s top museums. The artist, who goes by the name Banksy, has surreptitiously hung works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the

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