Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
02dec2006
OmniVapor, John Gruber on vaporware. Also shows why my main blog is a bit silent at the moment. ;-)
RESTful Security, that is SSL and HTTP Basic/Digest, provides a stable and mature solution that addresses transport level credential passing, encryption, and integrity.
the night i became an atheist, “Being an atheist in America often means being the outcast. It’s hard to be different, and churches are full of really nice people and potential new friends. Superstition and boring rituals are a small price to pay for acceptance, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all to find that there are plenty of people out there that belong to religions they secretly think are foolish, simply because they get acceptance out of it.”
Heart of mine so malicious and so full of guile,
Give you an inch and you’ll take a mile.
Don’t let yourself fall Don’t let yourself stumble.
If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime
Heart of mine.
— Bob Dylan, Heart Of Mine
Google Mondrian, web-based code review and storage. “Guido van Rossum unveiled his first Google project, Mondrian, tonight during a Python tech talk at the Google campus in Mountain View. Mondrian is a web-based code review system built on top of a Perforce and BigTable backend with a Python-powered front-end.”
The Polonium Restaurant, in Sheffield, UK. Be careful.
Recursion Parallel Prolog, “Reform Prolog is a recursion-parallel implementation of Prolog. By executing all invocations of a recursive predicate in parallel, data-parallelism can be exploited.” That’s a great idea, really.
2006 Perl Advent Calendar, neato.
Trip report: Kazakhstan, “Kazakhstan has probably had more Google hits in the last month than ever before in its short existence as a republic independent of the Soviet Union.”
Well I know what’s right, I got just on life
In a world that keeps on pushin’ me around
But I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down
— Tom Petty I Won’t Back Down
The Compleat Gentleman: MMM’s Guide to Bitches, Buddies and Booze , by MotorMachineMercenary.
Streitende Zimtsterne, sorry, muss sein. :-P
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