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Continuing my quest to get into the subtleties of security and measures to protect against ‘bad guys.’ I came across an interesting article in the New York Times, about choosing passwords. One of the fundamental questions that i grapple with...
Read more →As you can imagine I’ve been reading and learning more about security with my work in Elections (http://www.trustthevote.org). It’s a hall of mirrors and I struggle to really grasp when a possible threat is worse than the cure for it — in real world terms, rather than theoretical terms.This article ...
Read more →We’ve been on an SEO binge over the last 4-6 weeks. I’ve been educating myself by listening and reading to everything I can find my hands on. What’s SEO anyway? It stands for “Search Engine Optimization” and it refers to the **science and art of getting your site to come up when people are searc...
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What are high reactives? > “Temperament is a complex, multilayered thing, and for the sake of clarity, Kagan was tracking it along a single dimension: whether babies were easily upset when exposed to new things. He chose this characteristic both because it could be measured and because it seemed to ...
Read more →“Harry, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it,, don’t wait for it, just … let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men’s store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee…”(Dale Cooper, in Twin Peaks) Don’t ask me why, the quote just strikes me as funny! Originally posted on Apr 28, 2007. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
Check out this post Chefs and Editors from Dilbert.com Blog: > And that’s your future of the Internet. The cost of content, such as this blog, and my comic strip, will continue to approach zero. The art will h...
Read more →You may not have followed the discussion that ensued when Ray Kurzweil was reported to ‘not understand the brain‘, but it’s pretty fascinating. Here’s what PZ Meyers said: > “There he goes again, making up nonsense and ...
Read more →I bet many of you didn’t realize that Roger Ebert is still writing a fantastic column, with movie reviews yes, but also some excellent written commentary. For example, check this fine post [Ten things I know about the mosque](http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/08/ten_things_i_know_about_the_mo.htm...
Read more →Ok, that’s my own curious headline for this interesting article in the New York Times: > “What, after all, is a more recognizable symbol of the capriciousness of life than a deck of cards, out of which your fate is randomly dealt? And yet here the deck icon is only superficial. At heart it’s not a random-card generator but the opposite: a highly wrought program with a memory, an algorithm and a mandate to keep children in the game. An app posing as a spatiotemporal object.” (from The New York Times)
The other day I wrote a post where I mentioned Google’s App Inventor, and I mentioned it with some skepticism. Today, a column in the [New York Times that covers Google’s App Inventor](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/technology/personaltec...
Read more →Check this link out, there are lots of really fun drawings. The artists take a little kid’s drawing and turns it into something amazing. Here’s a taste: 
Originally posted on May 04, 2007. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
Check this post iPhones Help Cops Solve Crimes By Capturing Everything You Type, Do from The Consumerist: > Cops love finding iPhones at crime scenes because ...
Read more →I think I might be entering a new phase in my music listening. I listen to a ton of music, on my iPhone, on my computer, in my car, all the time. And up to now it’s always been downloaded (purchased) music that I organize manually within iTunes. From time to time I’ve had subscriptions to [eMusic](...
Read more →Check this post The flatfooted learning society from Joho the Blog: > But, I am a flatfooted “programmer” and always will be. I have limitations that would have kept me from ever b...
Read more →Google leaves products in Beta forever, they say. Not Google Wave. They actually announced Wave’s impending cancellation. > “But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked....
Read more →It seems like nowadays, to be a cool, 21st century kind of application, you need to allow me to use my facebook, or google, or yahoo, or twitter, or … account to access a site. Ok, sounds like a fine idea, don’t you think? Here’s the problem. I go to one of the zillions of sites out there that I use, and it asks me to log in. Now, not only do I have to remember a username / email, a password, but I also have to remember if I used Google, Facebook, OpenId, or whatnot, to get in. I guess I should set a policy for myself to never use anything other than the built in username/password. That’s probably a better policy for security as well.
I never realized this and I am surprised that BlackBerry and Research In Motion advertising have not made a big deal out of it. According to this article [BlackBerry communications travel over a highly encrypted channel, not the open internet](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/business/global/02berr...
Read more →If you are a hardcore blog reader like I am, and like BlogBridge fans are, it’s worth giving a little thought to what this article is saying: > “I read this and thrashed and spluttered like Yosemite Sam for a while before I admitted it: he’s right. It is a self-created p...
Read more →Continuing the post from the other day about Wikileaks, I found some excellent further links that might interest you: - The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World’s First Stateless News Organization – Article in PressThink - No Secrets – Profile in the New Yorker Magazine