This essay dovetails quite nicely with what I’ve been thinking w/r/t the current economic climate. The bizarre discounting of risk, the flood of money without anything concrete behind it. I got seriously interested in growth investment in the early/middle 90s but all the historical measures indicators like P/E ratio no longer seemed to apply. The…
Sleep. Glorious sleep is merely an hour away. I shall sleep the sleep of the narcoleptic gods.
Yesterday was a banner day on the employment front… meh. So I spent all afternoon cleaning up after the behavior of an ostensibly professional member of the staff who, for whatever reason, decided it would be a good day to pull a psychobilly freakout on one of the more valuable members of my crew. This…
There was a time back in the early 90’s when I’d sneak over to ESPN’s chat forum while I should have been typing a paper at the computer lab. The pure, unadulterated crapflood that I experienced there was fun because it was so diametrically opposed to the task before me. I never thought much about…
Cory Doctorow, god bless his little heart, read all of Bruce Sterling’s The Hacker Crackdown. He even did so aloud. In to a microphone. You can hear the results too. Even as a podcast. And even though it pains me to no end (like he’d ever link to my podcast), here’s Cory’s podcast link.
The Economist tries to shed it staid reputation with a story on the Texas “Pole” tax. Linked here because there are a plethora of funny headlines I could of used to title this entry… Ultimately I decided it best to err on the side of tact.
Dark Reading—CMP Technology’s offering for the occasional suit who thinks about security issues—runs down the three biggest bot-nets currently out there. Not a lot of technical analysis going on but interesting in a big picture sort of way. I’m still amazed that Rbot is still alive and kicking to the degree it is.
So it looks like I took a goodly amount of time off, not only from work, but from blogging. I buried myself in holiday celebrational activities like eating and visiting with relatives and playing games and programming at 3pm in nothing but a bathrobe. The highlight of all this fun? I put a ball and…