January 2010
24 posts
“Versioning allows you to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every...”
– Amazon S3: Versioning Proposal. Very nice. Only thing that seems to be missing is a bulk form of the DELETEVERSION command.
“It took jurors 37 minutes on Friday to convict Scott Roeder, an abortion...”
– Jury Reaches Guilty Verdict in Murder of Abortion Doctor. I know that’s considered fast, but I’m surprised it took even that long. The only possible defense for Roeder was an insanity plea, and the defense didn’t even try it. The closest they came was arguing for “an unreasonable...
Watch
“Let yaks prowl the grounds unshaven.”
– From the announcement of Letters. Words to live by.
WatchEspresso, Intelligentsia
“allows for multiple monitors to be connected to a single Displayport connector...”
– Displayport v1.2 lands. YES! Now all we need to do is add power and I’ll be back to a single cable to connect when I sit at my desk with my laptop. Then I can finally forgive Apple for omitting docking from their laptops.
“These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered—combined with the...”
– A new approach to China. I feel like I’m watching the end of Return of the Jedi, watching Vader’s catharsis as the emperor tortures Luke. Welcome back from the dark side, Google. Now let’s throw that emperor down the reactor shaft.
Software Carpentry →
This looks like an excellent course, sort of the “trade school” counterpart to the “liberal arts” way of teaching programming that I wrote about a few years ago on my blog… which reminds me that it’s high time I resurrect that thing, so that I can (for example) link to those old posts at times like these.
“I feel a little dirty responding to stuff like this, but I have a point to make....”
– Small Caps | The Ministry of Type. Hear hear! Though typography is hardly special in this regard.
“On December 12, 2009, we factored the 768-bit, 232-digit number RSA-768 by the...”
– Factorization of a 768-bit RSA modulus. Nice!
“Disk really is the new tape.”
– ongoing · Concur.next & WF2 — Tuning Concurrent Clojure
“Here’s a thought experiment: Suppose you asked one of the blue-suit solution...”
– ongoing · Doing It Wrong
Skepticblog » Another Libel Suit – This Time... →
Hopefully this is just a death throe of the anti-vaccine hysteria.
“Why didn’t the United States have enough vaccine to fight swine flu this...”
– The Worst Ideas of the Decade (washingtonpost.com)