Yesterday was a banner day on the employment front… meh. So I spent all afternoon cleaning up after the behavior of an ostensibly professional member of the staff who, for whatever reason, decided it would be a good day to pull a psychobilly freakout on one of the more valuable members of my crew. This…
There was a time back in the early 90’s when I’d sneak over to ESPN’s chat forum while I should have been typing a paper at the computer lab. The pure, unadulterated crapflood that I experienced there was fun because it was so diametrically opposed to the task before me. I never thought much about…
Cory Doctorow, god bless his little heart, read all of Bruce Sterling’s The Hacker Crackdown. He even did so aloud. In to a microphone. You can hear the results too. Even as a podcast. And even though it pains me to no end (like he’d ever link to my podcast), here’s Cory’s podcast link.
The Economist tries to shed it staid reputation with a story on the Texas “Pole” tax. Linked here because there are a plethora of funny headlines I could of used to title this entry… Ultimately I decided it best to err on the side of tact.
Dark Reading—CMP Technology’s offering for the occasional suit who thinks about security issues—runs down the three biggest bot-nets currently out there. Not a lot of technical analysis going on but interesting in a big picture sort of way. I’m still amazed that Rbot is still alive and kicking to the degree it is.
So it looks like I took a goodly amount of time off, not only from work, but from blogging. I buried myself in holiday celebrational activities like eating and visiting with relatives and playing games and programming at 3pm in nothing but a bathrobe. The highlight of all this fun? I put a ball and…
I was a bit intrigued by a certain referrer in my log file who has been drifting at the bottom for the past week+ but suddenly shot up into the top 5 yesterday. The link ostensibly goes to http://tvsetmp3.com/ but gets redirected to http://ismymovies.com/. The page is constructed to look like it throws a system…
I just really like this for some reason: The Bureau of Communication I’m sure they’re harvesting email but it’s almost totally worth it.
A fellow denizen of the network cube farm hipped me to this online comic. It starts here for the moment. At turns silly and beautiful and poetic, it’s a delight to read. I hoovered up everything in the space of a few moments this morning. It now sits in my collection of RSS feeds. Simply…
I know it’s probably landed in you inbox once or twice already but Elz forwarded this one to me today. Particularly prescient given what’s been going on at work since I walked in the door this morning. Sometimes a plugin upgrade isn’t really a great idea. Then again, you never know until you test it…