I used to go to geek dinners. Back in the day. When BBS’s were the blogs of the time.

Ok, so the default theme is out, Pirates are in! 🙂

Skype. It’s closed. It’s prorietary. Yet it still manages to be cool…

This time it’s personal…

SecurityFocus has an interview with Marcus Ranum which details many reasons why network and computer security has not improved significantly in many years. The most appropriate line for me is at the end: “Blame the IT managers who overrule their security practitioners’ advice and put their systems at risk in the interest of convenience.”

The main stages of a blogger-in-action

Ok, so probably not 100% co-incidence, but certainly more than I’d intended…

Who and why? A brief collection of Rance links.

I’ve see far too many rewrites of Christmas carols/hymns/poems/stories/etc to find many of them even remotely entertaining. I think this is because they usually try to fit too many geek references into a barely humourous framework – and fail. I did find William Gibson’s altered “The Night Before Christmas” tale entertaining: Cyber Claus Extremely good…

Two quick items on the evening before Christmas – and they’re not even Christmas related!

I have decided to adopt the following Code of Ethics (taken from Desirable Roasted Coffee)

If someone claiming to be a geek is completely unaware of one of the greatest Sci-Fi writers of his time, can he truly be a geek?

It’s probably nothing new to anyone interested in easily securing wireless networks, but I thought it was hilarious: Timers on the power cords. I have no idea if any other security measures in place, but surely turning the AP off on a schedule guarantees it cannot be abused! Maintenance at daylight savings change-overs would probably…

Andrew Denton interviewed by Andrew Denton at Reader’s Feast Bookshop

Please, help! How do I make CSS @font-face actually download a font??

I’m disillusioned with CSS…