Cypress Hill, yo!

So I am digging the Quincy Jones back catalog for the first time ever. Found the source for an awesome Cypress Hill sample here: Qunicy Jones : You’ve Got It Bad Girl : Summer in the City. The track itself? Fantastic!

Capital Center Inn

So we stayed at the Capital Center Inn in Kansas City when driving down to Memphis recently. This was a mistake. I certainly hope you don’t make this same mistake. To help, here’s a little travelogue if you will. It looks serviceable enough from afar. Even moreso at night after a full day of work…

Is next: Duqu

A great intro to the next big security threat can be found here—ripped from the pages of Mefi as always. The architecture of this is just phenomenal. I wish I was half as good as the folks who put Stux/Duqu together. Then again, I’d probably be rabitting for the NSA or somesuch and that’s not…

Self-referentially awesome

So I’m reading Reamde because I happened by the CBPL and against all odds they had it on the shelf. The benefits of being one of the few cyberthriller readers in the metro area that didn’t pre-order on Amazon or just torrent the thing I guess. Anyway, there is a part where the main character…

Who needs string-replace()?

Why would XSL use a standard-ish way of naming their string replace function? No, they have to use translate($string,’a’,’b’) for some reason knowable only to the damn committee that wrote the spec. Thanks StackOverflow for the reminder. I’d be pretty pissed to have written my own string-replace() thing and then run across this at a…

Mez more ees

Listened the heck out of this album yesterday. I think I made it through the album, front-to-back, three times in one afternoon. The flashbacks were more than I had bargained for. Still being attacked by random bits of nostalgia today. It’s funny the way some bits of music have such deep triggers in the brain.…