Carpe Decorum

Command-line stalwarts by popular vote. H/T kottke.org

Somebody does not seem to understand, or want to understand, why computer activity gets logged. Computers used in California elections did not log deletions, operator changes, or have correct…

February 8 is International Septuagint Day for those in the know. And now the rest of us.

Ish, an excellent mouser, reigned supreme in the art of comfort, be it napping, eating (his or the dog’s food), or being petted. He was a hefty brown tabby when I met him at an adoption fair (Four…

Multilingualism is coming to the web in many ways, reflecting its users:
Asia already has twice as many Internet users as North America, and by 2012 it will have three times as many. Already, more…

Creative Commons is flourishing.

Via kottke.org, a reprise of Consider the Lobster. If history and taste had gone a bit differently, we all could be thankful for lobster, instead of turkey on Thanksgiving. Some of us would be more…

Another day, another data breach: RBS WorldPay systems reporting a hack into its systems November 10 exposing a million and a half social security records and a million or so pre-pay payroll and gift…

Facebook ignored a nasty security hole for four-months, one of those that permits code-injection.

It looks like another oops in the internets: low-assurance certificates for one domain can be easily snagged by another to, for instance, use in a man-in-the-middle attack.