May 2008
11 posts
“So packed with lushly designed poetry, fiction, and essays is Ninth Letter, the...”
– Literary MagNet | Poets & Writers
“At the end of the day, however, we are facing a much bigger, more metaphysical...”
– Dan Geer at Source Boston 2008 (via Schneier on Security)
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The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading...”
– AJAX Libraries API - Google Code
“Many people whose recommendations I would value don’t blog much any more. They...”
– Twitter Musings. I feel the same way. There are plenty of people who’s blogs I subscribe to but who’s twitter streams I won’t follow, and I regret that I’m missing some things (e.g. Tim’s tab sweeps) because of it.
“This is a HARDWARE problem! After playing around with removing the battery and...”
– Apple - Support - Discussions - Unresponsive Keyboard and Trackpad …. This just happened to me last night. Given all the software problems that there have been with MacBook Pro keyboards under Leopard, it was hard to track down this information on hardware problems with the keyboard. Sigh....
“On May 13th, 2008 the Debian project announced that Luciano Bello found an...”
– Debian OpenSSL Predictable PRNG Toys. Wow, this is huge, both in terms of level of embarrassment for affected Linux vendors and (more importantly) potential impact to their customers. Even I’m a little embarrassed about only having learned of this so long after the announcement, but...
“The other day, I got an email from Edd, an OpenBSD user, claiming that Samba...”
– When seekdir() Won’t Seek to the Right Position. A great story, and a great example of what I love about the OpenBSD community. They find and fix things like this all the time.
“In the interim, I’m sure I’ll eventually get used to life without...”
– Stevey’s Blog Rants: Settling the OS X focus-follows-mouse debate (FWIW after six months I still haven’t gotten used to it, but the 30-inch screen really does help. Maybe this is all just a plot to sell more display hardware?)
“Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink,...”
– Gin, Television, and Social Surplus 