After some futzing around with converting a professional website theme to GraffitiCMS (yes, I still like it and use it), and some hacking with a special HTTP module, I can now announce that the 64SAINT blog is live and ready for readers. For those not in the know, 64SAINT is my Volvo 1800S and I thought it well time that I parceled off all the posts about it over to its own site. […]
READ MOREThis particular article sprung pretty much fully formed from an XKCD comic. It’s the one called “Password Strength” and talks about password entropy and about choosing a password by selecting four separate words at random. I’m sure my readers, sophisticated souls that they are, already know of it. […]
READ MORELast week I finally buckled and went to see my doctor about a pinched nerve in my shoulder. It had been bothering me for weeks – but I was sure that after yet another good night’s sleep or a day’s gardening work it would be gone. But no, so off I went to my GP (as we say in England) and the only outcome was the need for physical therapy. And an appointment for a physical check-up. And… an appointment for a colonoscopy. […]
READ MORE(One in a continuing series on the slide rules I own. [list]) […]
READ MOREHandy hint, Frontier Airlines: if you don’t have my name in your database, just don’t send the email: […]
READ MOREThe iPhone 5 comes with a new connector: out with the decade-old 30-pin dock connector and in with the Lightning connector. The new connector is way smaller (meaning that iOS devices can be even thinner than before), doesn’t depend on being inserted the ”right side up”, and of course just doesn’t work with all those devices you may have had with the old connector. At the time Apple promised an adapter to convert from old to new and also provided new USB cables. […]
READ MOREI can’t remember the genesis of this particular article on the Turing Test, but this year being the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth certainly makes it very apt a year later. […]
READ MOREA couple of months ago, I was told some pretty sad news: after 26 years in the business, PC Plus was closing down. Future, the publishing company that owns it, decided that the magazine was no longer economically viable and that October 2012’s issue (number 326) was to be the last one. The news was made public about two weeks ago: […]
READ MOREA couple of weeks back, we went to the Pasta in the Park gala evening for TESSA, a charity that provides help for victims of domestic and sexual abuse here in Colorado Springs. Taste testing of pasta sauces by sponsors, silent auctions, raise the paddle auctions, drinking, eating, and supporting a great cause. […]
READ MOREA photography topic this time: HDR photos. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and is a set of algorithms that attempt to widen the range of detail in a photo from the darkest shadows to the brightest highlights to more closely mimic what the human eye can see. […]
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