Monthly Archives: October 2006

How many pints are there in the 5 liter Heineken mini-keg? Google:pints+to+5+liters. Yep, that’ll do for the party. Oops. Read that label incorrectly. I bought more than 10 pints.

This month in Cato Unbound, the Cato Institute hosts discussion of the question, “Should Libertarians vote Democrat?” I expect this is to coincide with their piece on the libertarian voter, whom they feel is somewhat influential. The libertarian vote is … Continue reading →

I heard one interesting thing on the radio this morning, and one annoying thing. That’s about par. The interesting thing was an article in The Lancet on the rate of death in Iraq since March 2003, which suggests that contrary … Continue reading →

WTF wants brownies with a pizza?

I’m not as well-travelled as I’d like. From b3co.com, via Kellan. One thing I’d like to do is see how far I can travel down the East Coast of the U.S. on local rail lines. Maybe one day when the … Continue reading →

I am slow to upgrade my home desk. One might say it’s because I’m cheap. One might also say it’s because the Company issues a portable desk which suffices, annoying though it may be. But our printer broke, and these … Continue reading →

SQL injection is an attack on computer database systems where an attacker exploits an assumption made by the programmer about the kinds of data that will be entered in the application. The assumption is that no one will use reserved … Continue reading →

There’s a bug in Tivoli Storage Manager, where, given a set of tapes to process in order to reclaim the space occupied by expired data, it fails to complete the task because it runs out of scratch tapes. Then manual … Continue reading →

In a day that needed a bit of levity, Rick points the So-Called Austin Mayor’s suggestion that some perspective is needed. Wired provides that perspective with this handy chart. Recall, after all, that the goal of terrorism is not necessarily … Continue reading →