Capital Center Inn

So we stayed at the Capital Center Inn in Kansas City when driving down to Memphis recently. This was a mistake. I certainly hope you don’t make this same mistake. To help, here’s a little travelogue if you will. It looks serviceable enough from afar. Even moreso at night after a full day of work…

Is next: Duqu

A great intro to the next big security threat can be found here—ripped from the pages of Mefi as always. The architecture of this is just phenomenal. I wish I was half as good as the folks who put Stux/Duqu together. Then again, I’d probably be rabitting for the NSA or somesuch and that’s not…

Self-referentially awesome

So I’m reading Reamde because I happened by the CBPL and against all odds they had it on the shelf. The benefits of being one of the few cyberthriller readers in the metro area that didn’t pre-order on Amazon or just torrent the thing I guess. Anyway, there is a part where the main character…

Who needs string-replace()?

Why would XSL use a standard-ish way of naming their string replace function? No, they have to use translate($string,’a’,’b’) for some reason knowable only to the damn committee that wrote the spec. Thanks StackOverflow for the reminder. I’d be pretty pissed to have written my own string-replace() thing and then run across this at a…

Mez more ees

Listened the heck out of this album yesterday. I think I made it through the album, front-to-back, three times in one afternoon. The flashbacks were more than I had bargained for. Still being attacked by random bits of nostalgia today. It’s funny the way some bits of music have such deep triggers in the brain.…

One in a series

Memo to self: When doing a google image search for comical Austin Powers catchphrase related clip art at work, don’t. Unless you’re pretty strictly filtering your results list. Because, well, a whole panoply of macro images of young fillies in various states of undress isn’t really appropriate to be flashing up on one’s monitor. Pretty…

LiveJournal rev2

It’s probably not the most brilliant observation but it just came to me today that Facebook is basically LiveJournal, only with more adults and fewer kitty animated gifs. The more they play with friends and groups, the stronger the correlation becomes. Not sure if this is a feature or a bug. Also, the upcoming profile…