Parallel Structure: Programming Edition
I was reflecting on some of the code that I've read over the last two years, and thinking about how unreadable a lot of it was. I couldn't put my finger on the reason until I looked at it in the same...
View ArticleHerding Firesheep in New York City
There's been a lot of talk about Firesheep over the last few days. The free Firefox extension collects cookies that have been broadcast over an unprotected WiFi network without using SSL. You turn it...
View ArticleHerding Firesheep: Addendum
Following my previous post I found that out of brevity I'd omitted some information. This serves as an addendum to my previous post. This has been editorialized as little as possible.The original...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Open Internet
In the wake of the recent FCC action on net neutrality, we're starting to see more mainstream coverage of the issues around the open Internet. But most people don't understand how a failure to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Snowmageddon 2010
I woke up this morning around 5am and decided to brave the snow to take some photographs of the aftermath of the blizzard. Despite having given my ankle a mild sprain while walking across the park on...
View Articlethefacebook/WHARRGARBL
I joined thefacebook in early 2005. Since then, new features have been released, always met with a storm of criticism for "changing things." Yet in retrospect, almost all of these features have been...
View ArticleEclipse Indigo on OS X 10.6.8: Tuning eclipse.ini
Based on information from a lot of places (on stackoverflow here, here and here; and various other parts of the Internet) I've cobbled together an eclipse.ini that doesn't hose my system. Note that I'm...
View Article
