Black holes, LHC, Star Wars, quantum uncertainty… if it is of general geek interest, but doesn’t fit into one of the other categories, it lands here.
Office politics erupts
Two secretaries at an Australian law firm lost their jobs a few days ago. Apparently they exchanged a series of escalating emails (read the series of emails from the bottom up) that all started with one of the secretaries either misplacing or having her lunch stolen.
Coming soon- Google Purge!
Google, everyone’s favorite search engine, has been on an amazing winning streak. Everything they touch seems to turn golden. Their technical brilliance is lauded by millions. Even part of their corporate philosophy, “You can make money without being evil“, strikes a friendly chord: they can truly do no wrong.
Google’s latest stunning innovation announcement is something called Google Purge. Beginning in mere weeks, Google will begin destroying all information they can’t index. Its all part of their effort to meet the user’s demands to make the world simple, clean and accessible- just like Google’s main search page.
(more…)
Newsflash: Blogging is getting common!
I came across this article earlier today by some guy who I don’t know about some other guys I don’t know and how the other guys blogs no longer rule the Blogosphere or something.
Little pieces of history
I am generally not a war-like guy- some might even call me a peacenik. That said, I have great respect for people who serve in the military. And I also find the “hardware” of war fascinating. Stealth bombers, laser guided missiles, ICBMs, tanks…rifles, bayonets, gas masks…swords, armour, and helmets.
A few years ago, Irene’s Aunt Judith offered me a few odds and ends from her basement. I took a couple of bayonets, then spent a happy evening doing Internet research. Once I’d confirmed where they came from, I put them on the shelf to admire once in a while. A conversation I had today with my Nephew Shane and brother in law Bryan reminded me that I had these items.
(more…)
Kid’s charged for “hacking” school computers…
Thirteen high school students in Kutztown, Pennsylvania have been criminally charged for “hacking” their high school provided laptops. Some relatives of the teenagers have set up a website to tell their side of the story.
Yay for Google!
Google is supposedly about to start providing RSS feeds of their Google News headlines. That's great, and I guess I'll have to switch over from using my own Google feed…
Bombs
On August 6, 60 years ago, Hiroshima was written into history in the worst way possible. It became the first city to be struck by a nuclear weapon. Three days later, Nagasaki became the second and last city to earn such distinction.
Sorry, this Module is not active!
Sigh…try to do one little thing to fix a configuration problem, and a dozen bugs show up.
If you are a website admin and use PHPNuke, this might interest you. Many (?) Linux distributions are now shipping with a PHP configuration setting called “register_globals” set to “Off”. This is a good thing for security as described by the PHP documentation. Unfortunately, it seems that PHPNuke has a ton of places where globals are used “incorrectly”.
It was a dark and stormy night…
I have to admit to occasionally having difficulty understanding why the line “it was a dark and stormy night” is subject to such derision in literary circles. I mean, seriously: it doesn’t sound that bad. It almost sounds like something I might write. Oh…