Carpe Decorum

Mar
24th

Tue

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

Minimal Effort Not Made 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…

Feb
8th

Sun

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

Feb
6th

Fri

Ishkabibble 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…

Jan
2nd

Fri

Link 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…

Dec
31st

Wed

creative funding Creative Commons is flourishing.

Link 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…

Dec
29th

Mon

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

Whoops 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…

No questions asked 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.