Monthly Archives: March 2005

May Terri Schiavo rest in peace. While much of what I have heard regarding Mrs. Schiavo focused on whether she should die, I find it troubling that a less ethically difficult, but still critical, question has been glossed over. Since … Continue reading →

Firefox pre-fetches, but only sometimes uses the cached result. Continue reading →

Paul Hoffman announced the release of Bruce Schneier’s and his Internet Draft on Attacks on Cryptographic Hashes in Internet Protocols. It’s readable, and covers the issues in their typically not-paranoid fashion — unlike some other articles I’ve read (but will … Continue reading →

Being the slow, not-so-trendy sort, it took me a while to pay attention to Yahoo! 360°. Or rather, it took Jeremy’s post offering invitations, which suddenly sprouted more than 200 comments. There are lots of observant people out there, so … Continue reading →

Good dog. Lake Placid’s Ubu Ale is a mild-manner red ale, suitable for drinking early in the evening, or on a warm spring day.

John Massengale has his students focusing on the really important projects.

For Kim Regan of Southeast, it’s about having to pile her three daughters into the car to go anyplace, such as the movies, shopping or the library. So begins Michael Risinit’s article on the Riverkeeper’s report on sprawl, on the … Continue reading →

Our request for a variance was not contested, and was granted by unanimous vote. Receiving the variance is thrilling; we can move on to the next stages of the project. If you were watching SusCom channel 8, you could see … Continue reading →

Amazon now shows what similiar items customers ultimately bought after viewing a particular item. So you can see, for example, that 50% of the customers who looked at the Grundig Mini 100 PE Portable AM/FM/Shortwave Radio with Headphones bought it, … Continue reading →

Like all Wright dwellings, Penfield House is a high maintenance item, which means restoration is an ongoing process. He did have some good ideas, though.

Larry Staton pointed out the Not-So-Big Showhouse. Who knows? Perhaps this exhibition will have an effect similiar to Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Our house, after all is said and done, won’t be so big. Certainly attempting to fit … Continue reading →

Tonight before the Carmel Zoning Board of Appeals, we will request a variance. We are on the agenda. APPLICATION OF C. WILLIAM & DEENA COX FOR A VARIATION OF SECTION 63.9 FOR PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT FAMILY ROOM AND BATHROOM. CODE … Continue reading →

The Big Sister just called to tell me that her travelling tots group played soccer today, and she got the ball away from a Big Boy, and scored a GOAL!.

The Journal News led the business section this morning with an article on how Consumers Union is using the Internet to convince Congress to require drug peddlers to release complete test results. You can’t ask your doctor about the new … Continue reading →

Firstly, remember that authentication and authorization are separate issues. Secondly, consider the authentication source as an foreign key, to use database terminology. You link with that key in order to authorize activity, but you do nothing else with that key. … Continue reading →

We finished watching The Village last night. It’s not much of a thriller, but I did like the film. Nice houses, and the village reminded me of Sabbathday Lake, or the Moravian homes in Warren County, New Jersey. My quibble: … Continue reading →

Since I go on and on, at least in-house, about security being a usability problem, I’m delighted to see Ka-Ping Yee and others start a Usable Security journal.

There have been some intriguing developments over the past little while, which remain to be absorbed. Via Ben Hammersley, I find a9 OpenSearch, and via that argument at Sam‘s, Mark brings Greasemonkey to my attention. Greasemonkey in particular could be … Continue reading →

Apache‘s mod_speling does two things. One thing it does is fold case, making URIs case-insensitive. This is handy when users are moving files between case-insensitive, but preserving, and case-sensitive filesystems. The other thing it does is try to correct spelling … Continue reading →

c|net refrained from using the obvious verb in the headline of their story about the Hewlett-Packard‘s acquisition of Snapfish. I’ve been using Snapfish for quite some time and like it a lot. My major problem with all of the on-line … Continue reading →