September 27, 2008
“We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us Maxim: The insider threat from careless or complacent employees & contractors exceeds the threat from malicious insiders (though the latter is not negligible.)”
Physical Security Maxims from Argonne National Lab (they still do classified stuff there)
September 15, 2008
“Conservatives have been told that the colleges are liberal brainwashing factories. How will America compete with Germany and Japan if our people do not respect a college education?”
Chris Espinosa of Apple fame on What’s at stake in this election cycle.
September 8, 2008
“For fuck’s sake, they’ve played you exactly the same way since the 2000 election. Will you please exhibit a learning curve. You’ve been here before.”
John Scalzi on the Democrats acting like they always do.
August 27, 2008
Old Vine Grapes - Old Vines Zinfandel - Klinker Brick Winery

This wine was recommended to me by the waiter at dinner earlier.  Of course, he was bringing me glasses of a Pinot Noir at the same price what which this goes for by the bottle.

August 24, 2008
“Did you ever see Rael Dornfest’s bloxom blog project? Elegant, tight perl that did stuff like string replace on slashes in a fiel path to get an array of dir names, the file name itself, *and* kept the number of substitutions as a variable for traversal depth, in a single line. It was smart, but it also took other coders a long time to understand the JAPHishness of that single line of code, because it was doing three things at once.”
From a comment by Clay Shirky on Why Corporates Hate Perl
August 11, 2008
The LOLcat school of economics
July 1, 2008
Pinball never died in this arcade - Los Angeles Times

I have a love-hate relationship with Vegas, but 200 pinball machines may fully redeem the town.

June 28, 2008
Nautilus trash across file systems

I moved my digital photos onto another partition and noticed that I was no longer able to move items to the trash, only delete them immediately.  Creating a directory in the root of the new file system named .Trash-<username> takes care of that.  On Fedora 9, however, the trash display in Nautilus does not update if you move stuff into the various directories from another process.

June 24, 2008
7 things you can't say on the Internet : evolvingWe

By way of Jeff Atwood, a quick list of tales too ticklish to tell.  I might not completely agree with the reasoning, but the bullet points are hard to quarrel with.

June 3, 2008
The Wine Country Deck: 50 Best Northern California Wineries $14.95 : Chronicle Books

Winery flash cards!  That’s for me.