Dropsafe

In one of my occasional fits of madness – wherein I switch off my natural cynicism and try to pretend the world is a nice place – I skimmed [diveintomark.org] and found the following piece of wisdom: How to credit people whose links you republish Ever since it was discovered that bloggers kill kittens plagiarize

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[www.wired.com] Security-Free Wireless Networks  SAN JOSE, Calif. — With a laptop perched in the passenger seat of his Toyota 4Runner and a special antenna on the roof, Mike Outmesguine ventured off to sniff out wireless networks between Los Angeles and San Francisco. He got a big whiff of insecurity. While his 800-mile drive confirmed that

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…is another scan of an old negative. If I remember right this was about a 6 second exposure on Fuji Superia 200 at f/8 on my Minox GT-E, set up using my Minox mini-tripod, and timer to reduce shake; the exposure is AP so I cannot be exact about it. Scan 2400dpi on a Epson

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well, the first round of holiday pictures are up on the website at [vol1] – smaller versions at [vol1-small] – after some fiddling with the scanner this weekend; it’s fantastic to be able once more to convert old (and new) film images to digital format, and – being as I eventually went for the mid-cost

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From [www.abmc.gov] : Please be advised that we only have the records of those casualties that are buried in our cemeteries or are placed on the Walls of the Missing a total of 33,717 records. There were 118,518 American casalties in World War I. …which answers a question that was in the back of my/our

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This weekend I will mostly be doing domestics, and perhaps scanning photographs from my recent biking holiday in France. First installment: the American Battle Monuments Commission‘s (of whom, more anon) memorial to the WW1 Battles of the Aisne/Marne, near Saint Thierry – as stumbled across en-route for Reims. larger version: [www.crypticide.com]

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A permanent state of war, in a country with nobody to fight. Not a good combination. Back to the 1950s for America? [www.congress.org] Pending Draft Legislation Targeted for Spring 2005 The Draft will Start in June 2005 There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will

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One of my neighbours is a British-Bike aficionado – having ridden most of them since 1950 – and a book from his library surprised me by saying that not merely was the original horizontally-opposed boxer motorbike engine a British design, but it also suggested that the design’s greatest modern exponent – BMW – licensed its

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[news.com.au] Rumsfeld bans camera phones From correspondents in London May 23, 2004 MOBILE phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, The Business newspaper reported today. Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US Defence Department believes that some of the

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[www.salon.com] May 25, 2004 […] my attention wandered to the film’s soundtrack, the last resort of the jaded and popcorn-less. Soon, from the score’s generic, thundering drums and sawing strings arose a lone female voice chanting in a nameless tongue, pouring out her melodious lament like a widow over a fresh grave. If “Troy” were

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Does Solaris 9 still include drivers for SCSI half-inch tape drives of the 6250cpi vacuum-fed variety? I know I should go look this up but I am rather bogged down at the moment…

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[zdnet.com.com] Microsoft has launched an effort to produce a version of Windows for high-performance computing, a move seen as a direct attack on a Linux stronghold. High-performance computing once required massive, expensive, exotic machines from companies such as Cray, but the field is being remade by the arrival of clusters of low-end machines. While the

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