Unlike the deniers in the Liberal party, I understand climate science well enough to know that we should give our only planet the benefit of the (very little) doubt. It’s time to act. But not with an ETS. I hope that the Liberals (== conservatives, for my US readers) defeat the ETS a.k.a Carbon Pollution…
How not to answer secret questions and answers
This one is not quite safe for work, but it’s very funny: Live Chat Help Currently experiencing network delays, one moment please…. Network connection re-established. Adam Brooke: Do you work for the IRS? Kamyar: Thank you for waiting Sir. Unfortunately we cannot access your password, however we can reset it, which enables you to access…
The OLPCs are here
Wow – that was quick. I have three OLPCs in my office. I need to go sort out some US power plugs for them so I can charge them, but they’re here! 🙂
Proto GaiaBB runs fine in Browse
Phew. Obviously, the default theme fails a bit when you see only two rows of topic activity. Will really need to make that work a whole lot better. However, the actual rendering is perfect. Yay! One less task to be done.
GaiaBB and OLPC
Peter Quodling. an old friend, e-mailed out of the blue last week. I have a lot of time for Peter as he’s one of the few Australian IT architects that really knows his stuff, plus he’s a really nice guy. He is involved in OLPC in the PNG region. Last Christmas, I nearly bought an XO…
Dang expired credit cards
Well, that’s been a rotten few days… My friend TJ, 43, passed away from diabetic related complications and worse than third world access to basic health care in a first world country – the USA. My USA credit card expired. This domain expired and failed to auto-renew using my USA credit card. Tanya had to…
“Protect the Data” Idiot! Redux
Richard Bejtlich at his TaoSecurity Blog makes a very strong assertion that we’re all idiots for wanting to protect data, rather than the container. I’m not going to play a semantic game about protecting data versus the thing the data is in at the moment, but honestly, I think he misses a really strong point as…
Google: Don’t be evil
I work on an open source project, ESAPI for PHP. Well, “work” might be too strong a word for it, but I try to prod its lifeless carcass from time to time. That’s not the reason I write today. I write because of stupidity, and evil being conducted in the name of a “law”. I…
40 years ago today, humanity landed somewhere else than Earth
40 years ago today, three brave folks and a huge team at NASA (and indeed the entire industrial military might of the USA) travelled to the moon, and two landed somewhere else other than Earth. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out for two and a half hours, slept for a bit, ate a meal,…
Neilsen on password security vs usability
I read Jakob Neilsen’s post on password security, and although he has a point, there are several issues as to why this is a monumentally bad idea. First, passwords are a fundamentally bad idea for all data risk classifications. Instead of trying to make passwords more usable, how about getting rid of them? Second, exposing…