Dropsafe

…and so the security-geek’s event correlation thread kicks in once more; over the last three weeks I have seen two separate old Tears For Fears get playtime on various of the music channels on TV, as well as a rerun of a Top of the Pops appearance doing Mad World. “Aha!”, sez I, “this behooves

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After four nights of visitors the house needs a cleanup, the garden needs a flamethrower and weird booze abounds such that I don’t know what to do with it. Well, that’s a lie. “Drink it” is probably a good start. Valerie was astonished – nay, horrified – that I had never before encountered something called

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It’s been evident to me for some time that my iBook is caching the WEP Key for my home network, elsewhere than in my KeyChain; indeed my keychain can even be locked and yet my iBook will merrily reconnect to my home network when I get back frmo a day at the office. Does anyone

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…and so do I; after having a 20 minute introduction to it c/o Darren Moffat midweek, I am positively enthused about DTrace. The Register article [www.theregister.co.uk] suffers from having to explain DTrace to ordinary people; for Unix geeks it is probably fastest to say: It’s the bastard offspring of an unholy three-way union between your

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This is not what you think it is. Well, strictly that’s not correct – it’s about precisely what you think it is; just that it’s not. It’s a hilarious 17 minute FoxSearchlight short that demonstrates above all else that some Americans really do understand irony. Finally. Also: when in doubt, hit the power switch. [www.foxsearchlight.com]

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Welcome to Bush Is Lord. [bushislord.com] open-source interface for ISBN retrieval [www.isbn.org.uk] Many online booksellers provide an ISBN lookup service, but the bibliographic information on the results page is mixed in with the graphics, text and code required to provide for the sale of the book. Some companies provide access to the raw ISBN data

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a friend in another blog faces this challenge: Does anyone know enough Latin to translate “Nihil domestica sede iocundius” ? It was inscribed above the lintel of a house in Venice and it’s bugging me. The closest my l337 latin 5killz can get is something like “there is nothing common (domestic) in a pleasant home.”

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I understand your language perfectly. Je parle français comme une vache espagnole. Hablo español como un gringo borracho. Ich sprechen deutsch wie italienisch Fußballtrainer. I bet those machine guns are fake. C’est du toc, toutes ces mitrailleuses. Apuesto a que estas metralletas son falsas. Ich wette, diese MGs sind Attrappen. Are all of your jails

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Globbed from neil gaiman – are you someone annoyed by websites that demand “free registration” irrespective of whether you fit inside their typical customer demographic? Some newspapers have begun to implement a: click here if you live outside [insert name of catchment area] opt-out, but if not then take a look at [www.bugmenot.com] The only

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darren’s just back from watching formula-1 cars mess around in london and brought back a bottle of 15yo Laphroaig to say thanks for putting him up!

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As the images below illustrate, I’ve been visited by the divine Valerie over the weekend, and a most diverting time was had by all. Airport pickup and shopping led to food prep and a high tea – cucumber sandwiches on homemade bread, likewise homemade Victoria sponge cake, salads, cheeses, and … well, let’s be honest,

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[news.bbc.co.uk] My advice: only vote for candidates who run Trusted Solaris and harden it using JASS. That ought to rule-out all of them. President George Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry have come under attack from a US net privacy advocate and adviser over website security. Both sites have left themselves open to online “vandalism”

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