Yesterday I hacked together a quick script that lets me send photos to my blog and used these pictures to test it. Its real secure too – please don’t guess my secret email address for it – its not too obvious actually – but obscurity is no substitue for real security. You do have to […]
An awesome flash application that lets you build a simple flipbook like animation one frame at a time. Part of the charm is the simplicity of it all, you can draw in black and white, there are no colors or erasing short of erasing the whole frame. Here’s a quick doodle of a simple castle
Steven Pearlstein’s column describes GlobalGiving, which is looking to hook up small donors with international aid projects. Interesting numbers, they’be raised $1.5M from 2000 donors, that’s about $750 per donor. It’s also a great example of the wisdom that’s in crowds: On its Web site, GlobalGiving provided brief descriptions of 112 development projects, asking site
…not much to say that hasn’t already been said… In a free society, you can’t safeguard against every terrorist attack by a determined aggressor. The alternatives, totalitarianism and loss of freedom, are worse. We’ll never know how many attacks are thwarted or know the effectivenees of anti-terrorist strategies – real security strategies, not made up
Found two very useful Mac applications yesterday that I wanted to pass along: JHymn strips the DRM from iTunes Store files (without needing an iPod to unencrypt the files). I was annoyed that 2 song’s I’d purchased and put on my iPod wouldn’t play at work, where I use a Linux desktop. All the MP3’s
In case you haven’t heard yet, the Google Maps API has been made public. This opens up their mappping capabilities to more developers without having to rely on the hacks and workarounds you may have seen earlier. Here are my ideas for some useful applications: A map view of an address book type list. It
In case you haven’t already read, there’s a pretty serious vulnerability related to XML-RPC in some PHP applications including Serendipity. Read more at hardened-php.
I purchased the DirectKick package because it was cheaper to get it than to upgrade our monthly plan to one that includes Comcast Sports Net, the local broadcaster for DC United games. It was a no-brainer, $70 per season to get pretty much every MLS game broadcast every weekend. Getting the next package up woule