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amusing, interesting article on content-sweeping technologies
worksafe: [www.dansdata.com] – link courtesy of james
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other good ones
http://bash.org/?55804 http://bash.org/?6060 http://bash.org/?10846 http://bash.org/?120398 http://bash.org/?10924
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marvellous timewaster
bash.org “stupid things said on IRC” quote server [bash.org] example output: <erno> hm. I’ve lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can’t figure out where in my apartment it is. …and… <rsb> i saw a very disturbing thing this morning <wjr> oh? <rsb> a dirty bum <rsb> he
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stolen source code = delay?
can anyone please explain to me how – aside fom police investigation getting in the way – theft of sourcecode can delay development? [news.bbc.co.uk]
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i have always suspected that something like this was afoot
[www.joyoftech.com]
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adsl
i am still vastly amused by adsl, like someone who has got a motorcycle having previously had a pedalbike. 28 kilobytes/second upload. 58 kilobytes/second download. now: that’s nothing compared to some of the hardware i have at my disposal at work – but it means i can work at home, no longer ph33r my phone
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desert island discs
so i was listening to desert island discs on radio4 on sunday morning, and nick hornby wants to take an iPod with him to a desert island. 10,000 songs. kinda defeats the point, wouldn’t you say?
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RFID Considered Harmful
[www.out-law.com] Retail giant Tesco is using RFID technology in its Cambridge store. The electronic tags are being tested on Gillette razor blades and send a message to a CCTV camera whenever a customer picks up a packet. But a Labour MP fears for our privacy and wants new regulations for the technology. A radio frequency
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european company bikers
one of the unexpected upsides of going to the security ambassadors earlier this month, was meeting ulrich and discovering that for the past 10 years, a group of bikers from my company have been meeting up for an annual run through the alps: [www.suntour.ch] i am not sure whether my next bike will be “up”