There is an urgent need to legislate on how retarded a person is allowed to be while in charge of law enforcment. Miami Police Take New Tack Against Terror:
MIAMI - Miami police announced Monday they will stage random shows of force at hotels, banks and other public places to keep terrorists guessing and remind people to be vigilant.
Deputy Police Chief Frank Fernandez said officers might, for example, surround a bank building, check the IDs of everyone going in and out and hand out leaflets about terror threats.
"This is an in-your-face type of strategy. It's letting the terrorists know we are out there," Fernandez said.
Security Through Leaflets! If I get enough leaflets to wrap around me completely, I will be 100% secure from terrorist threats.
While on the subject of retards, Firefox 1.5 is not great from a security/usability point of view. The 'Check for Updates' menu option is greyed out when Firefox isn't invoked as an administrator. (Why not just prompt for credentials when needed?) Memory usage is horrific - 6 tabs yesterday ate up 160MB RAM.
These days I use Firefox because of great standards compliance (CSS/SVG) and how a lack of Flash/Java/Adobe Reader does not drive the user insane.
According to doctors, the unborn baby is able to pick up sounds as of a few days ago and recognise them as something good and soothing later on in life. So I dragged Mrs. Holst along to a three hour Pink Floyd cover-band concert tonight. (The Pink Floyd Project @ Sønderborghus)
They were brilliant I tell ye. The singer did not look like Gilmour at all but he sure as fuck sounded like him.
In retrospect I've become uncertain if it was such a good idea. If the first thing this baby knows is Pink Floyd, life is pretty much down hill from now on.
I sent email to the editors of scope.dk today, congratulating them on the new design, offering some more web design suggestions and pointing out that blindly calling addslashes() and passing input on to an SQL query isn't the best way to prevent SQL injection.
A few moments later I received a spam challenge from their mail server. I just deleted it and now they'll never know of the bugs in their site. Challenge-Response Anti-Spam Systems Considered Harmful. I'm as sick of spam as everyone, but don't make *me* do extra work to deliver email to you.
Oh. It's a girl, apparently.
Several (meaning more than one) readers actually responded to the November 3 entry. Brian complained that my diary didn't have a fancy comment system, nor was it possible to see my mood or what music I was currently listening to.
If you can't tell my mood and my current choice of music just by reading my diary you need to pay closer attention while reading.
Mrs. Holst destroyed my Canon PowerShot A100 a while ago so I had to get another in time for her recent class reunion.
I wanted something pretty compact with good battery life, quick power-on, >4Mpixel, fast and continous shooting and USB2.0. In the process I discovered that most of the cheap high-resolution cameras come with USB1.1 and *very* slow storage. After comparing good reviews on dpreview.com with what was actually available to me in stores I went for a Canon IXUS 50 (branded as PowerShot SD400 in the US). I almost purchased an IXUS 40 but discovered at the last moment it had USB1.1. I also got a SanDisk 512MB MiniSD card (as if SD wasn't small enough) which is pretty fast.
And that's the story of how 100GB disk isn't enough these days.
I just love how quickly eEye can go from patting Microsoft on the back for a job well done to giving them a slap across the head: While Microsoft is addressing only two vulnerabilities with this month's patch update, eEye's upcoming advisories' page continues to list six other discovered flaws related to Microsoft platforms, including five that are considered high risk as they can be remotely exploited. The oldest vulnerability in that list was discovered and reported 187 days ago. -- http://eeye.com/html/company/press/PR20051108.html
*pat* *pat* *SLAP*!
You may remember how I finally got around to automating the update of the diary archive a few weeks ago. I just hard-coded the script to only process entries up to year 2005. This kinda forces me to get a decent diary system going before 1/1 2006 (or reinstate the old one). I don't want the hassle of maintaining two URL schemes so it's either in time for 2006 or it'll have to wait until 2007.
So, anyone else need a commandline publishing system that can run at commit-time or from cron taking input from flat text files of some sort and writing flat text files back? I haven't decided on any particular language, input or output format. I thought maybe XSLT might do the trick but even after wrapping my head around the syntax and structure, I still haven't a clue which tools I need to manipulate my files with.
I have returned bearing many new Cradle of Filth CDs. Let it be known that I am too old for death metal and two day non-stop concerts; sticking to black metal from now on.
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I'm away at Aalborg Metal Festival this weekend; see you Sunday.
Not only is this not a blog, but if it were, I would comply almost fully with of Nielsen's Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes. It's about time I started to make mistakes!
I like this quote best: "If you usually post daily but sometimes let months go by without new content, you'll lose many of your loyal -- and thus most valuable -- readers."
Is there anybody out there?