Dropsafe

It’s bizzare, having a highly-pageranked blog. I get pagerank points for password cracking, security documentation, and a variety of other stuff – photos, artwork – as well as having a widely-read blog with links from lots of other widely-read blogs, so that helps overall contributes to my site’s high hitrate. The amusement comes from the…

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<unhappy> [news.bbc.co.uk] Veteran BBC broadcaster John Peel has died at the age of 65, while on holiday in Peru. </unhappy>

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Oh! It is so refreshing to have a breath of fresh air: [www.datapower.com] As enterprises deploy sophisticated XML-enabled applications, they face several adoption hurdles: * Poor performing applications – Powerful applications rely on complex processing of large XML files. XML is a text-based encoding standard that slows ordinary processors to a crawl, rendering applications unusable.…

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If you are involved in corporate politics – especially in the IT industry – I really recommend the following. Go read the following Q&A interview with SciFi author Neal Stephenson; specifically go read the pitch and response to question 2: 2) The lack of respect… – by MosesJones Science Fiction is normally relegated to the…

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…in fact it’s been rot13(“fuvg”). I woke up with backache – a muscle beneath my left shoulderblade was tense and refusing to loosen; a Radox bath gave me 10 minutes relief but once I fed the cats it seized completely and left me flat on my back on the kitchen floor. I crawled, literally, back…

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Pointed out to me by Rob Diamond – [www.blueman.com] well worth a look.

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A colleague [blogs.sun.com] pointed me to a photo of this bridge between Sweden and Denmark. It takes a moment to work out what’s going on, and then you wonder at at how clever and elegant it is and then – if you are the sort of person that I am – you note… how easy…

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there are quite a few of these around, but this one is rather impressive: [www.levenez.com]

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FilmFour earlier this year screened (if I remember right) a fairly recent Japanese movie — a love story movie set in the postwar period with lots of atmospheric, almost film noir lighting, formal clothing, and repressed desire. For those of a British bent it was a sort of Brief Encounter-ish tale, but with an unexpected…

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Well I know where I am going to be next monday night: [www.skyone.co.uk] Maybe it’ll even make bikers respectable…

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The question nobody is asking: what is the market value of software that costs nothing to download and use? [linux.slashdot.org] …eat your heart out, Epimenides.

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For those who like to analyse geek environments from the perspective of “how highly effective geeks do their work” – may I strongly recommend watching Danny O’Brien’s LifeHacks video, as-is available for download from the NotCon04 archive website. The analysis and “ticklist” of habits that seem common to various net.notables somehow seems to reflect my…

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