Back in the Saddle

March 29th, 2011

Time to start blogging again, no reason it feels like in particular other than seems it’s kind of out of practice. Or then again. maybe there isn’t the right time now to be blogging but will see what this looks like in the morning and perhaps decide then.

Evenings after five o’clock or so seem to be the time of day that is least productive, often have commented that it is good for nothing after that hour. A time when mistakes creep in, or things are said wrong. Wouldn’t hurt to tempt fate again for a while though eh? Tempting to keep track of the golf game by writing, it’s a very Zen sport and would seem to lend itself well to vocalizing my progression of the game.

Breaking The Web

February 10th, 2011

Gawker media and all of it’s web sites went blank this week, due to a hideous kludge because some engineer somewhere thought that it might be a good idea to have web visitors download a huge chunk of javascript to save a teeny bit of server resources and perhaps work around the statelessness of the web. At least that’s the only reasons I can think of. Best quote to describe the situation is “whoever set this up this way is a complete fucking moron.”

Smoke Screen

December 10th, 2010

Interesting Google graphic showing where the traffic is coming from for searches on the term “wikileaks”. As postulated elsewhere, the latest batch from wikileaks are low-level secret cables and the purported whistle blower was amongst a few million people that had access to the data. So why not Let It Happen On Purpose once again, create a database of whose hands this data ends up in, might be some juicy intelligence gained. Except they didn’t count on someone getting the data that *really* knows how to publish to the www and the consequently the masses of people interested in their contents.