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12/01 Amazing Stuxnet story — With apologies for quoting a Foxnews story, and with thanks to Scott Adams for the link, here’s a fascinating behind the scenes story of Stuxnet: > “The mission: Infiltrate the highly advanced, securely guarded enemy headquarters where scientists...
11/30 [GEEKY] Ruby 2.0 Refinements in Practice — I went to RubyConf and heard a detailed presentation on a new possible feature of possible Ruby 2.0 called ‘Refinements’. I have to admit that I didn’t fully grasp how the feature really would be used. Here’s a nice and quite techical article about it: Ruby 2.0 Refinements in Practice from Katz Got Your Tongue?: > "The first thing you need to understand is that the purpose of refinements in Ruby 2.0 is to make monkey-patching safer. Specifically, the goal is to make it possible to extend core classes, but to limit the effect of those extensions to a particular area of code."
11/18 Woz speaks (on iPhone) — I happen to be reading iWoz, which is Steve Wozniak’s memoir/biography/whatever. It’s a very breezy easy read and fun if you follow this kind of thing. So naturally this caught my eye: > “Woz then moved on to the topic of Android saying that Android smartphones, not the iPhone, would become dominant...
11/15 [Geeky] RubyConf Summary (updated 2) — RubyConf 2010 was excellent. It was my first and probably not my last. Some general thoughts and then a master list of links (the real meat.) - Unlike most all ‘business’ type conferences and talks I have gone to, the RubyConf style of presentation (and perhaps the Rails or Ruby community — I don’...
11/13 Overreaction — I tend to agree with this writer that: > “With respect to airport security, it is remarkable how we have come to place Sept. 11, 2001, as the fulcrum upon which we balance almost all of our decisions. As if deadly terrorism didn’t exist prior to that day, when really we’ve been dealing with the same...
11/12 [RubyConf] Percentage of Windows users — Odd thing happened in a talk at RubyConf. Speaker asks all attendees who are using Windows to raise their hands. Looked to me like about 3% of folks here are on Windows. Now its a very biased audience but still an interesting number!
11/06 [GEEKY] CSS Deep Thoughts — I feel that I am finally mastering CSS and in doing so I am seeing some interesting patterns. It seems to me that it’s very easy to get into a situation where you have too many CSS rules that overlap and override each other in ways that are more complex than necessary. It seems like there could and ...
10/21 Robot wars — Two very contrasting ways of looking at our relationship with Pakistan. I don’t know where I stand, to be honest. If you are interested in the topic you owe it to yourself to read both articles, because I had a hard time finding an appropriate section to quote in each case. [Here is Johann ...
10/08 Big Changes coming in Curaçao! — You may not follow the news, but Curaçao is undergoing major constitutional changes, as are all the Netherlands Antilles. In fact, as of this Sunday, Oct 10, (“10-10-10”) the Netherlands Antilles will cease to exist as a legal entity. The easiest way to explain this to Americans that I have come up ...