I have friends who love Obama. Heck, I like the guy. He certainly gives eloquent speeches, but as this fantastic essay points out, his stump speech strategy is exactly the opposite of what we need in this country.
Patrick Smith, of Salon’s Ask the Pilot fame, has posted an eloquent essay on the New York Times Jet Lagged blog about the inanity of airport “security”. It sounds like he has been reading Bruce Schneier. Refuse to be Terrorized!
While working on an implemention of the iTunes U. authentication algorithm in C#, I came upon a few major gotchas that I thought would be useful to share. I ported the Java implementation that is a part of the example code(zip) package downloadable from the iTunes U. support site.
I like C#. While I prefer languages like Perl and Python, I have to admit that C# is pretty cool. And, with Mono, I could even write nice, happy, FLOSS apps in it, if I like. But, I hate ASP.NET. I am forced to use this abominable framework at work and today I was once [...]
Skype Journal: 5 Things for Bloggers to Do Before DyingSome reasonable advice about arranging for care taking of your digital assets after death.(tags: blog will death weblog )
This guest essay on Grist by Ross Gelbspan discusses an important issue that doesn’t seem to have yet broken into the mainstream discussion on climate change. What if it is already too late? From the article: As the pace of global warming kicks into overdrive, the hollow optimism of climate activists, along with the desperate [...]
Hackito Ergo Sum: The Library ProblemFor the library science geeks out there…how to organize a home library.(tags: library book organization diy howto weblog ) Handbook of Applied Cryptography(tags: cryptography security book weblog )
Al Gore’s speech is both a sober warning and an inspiring call to action. I hope people pay attention to his message.
This latest Bali update from the NYT DotEarth Blog reminds me once again just how frustrating and demoralizing this last decade has been for those of us concerned about global climate change.
This Salon article is pretty scary. From the article: How dire is the climate situation? Consider what Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the United Nations’ prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said last month: “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in the next two to three years will [...]