Bruce Schneier: The security mirage Thanks to Tiffany for sharing this with me. A great talk by a really brilliant guy. The TED talks are always a great collection of really bright people talking (I have linked to them before: Why, how, what). You should look at the full list and find some, you will [...]
A good architecture is consistent in the sense that, given partial knowledge of the system, one can predict the remainder. – Fred Brooks, Design of Design, pg. 143 I’ve been voraciously reading Design of Design, a new book of essays from Fred Brooks, author of the software engineering classic, The Mythical Man Month. I’ve been [...]
I am a big fan of John Gruber’s website Daring Fireball. He always has good information and I appreciate his opinions on technical issues. (And yes, I have been supporting him for years, I have a whole collection of t-shirts.). With the whole brouhaha surrounding AT&T’s new data plan pricing, I have been getting increasingly [...]
February 10, 2010 – 5:18 pm
Twitter being the source of all good things nowadays (at least according to “social media experts”), I posted a question to my huge list of followers for ideas to write a blog entry about. Parsing through all the suggestion (1), I found the best idea from KT: tisfan: @gothmog talk about how you got into [...]
February 1, 2010 – 11:25 am
Most of you know (or maybe not) that I have a bit of an obsession with the Supreme Court. As the only of the three branches of government that I really have any respect for, I enjoy reading and listening to the workings and decision making process of the justices. To be clear, respect does [...]
January 31, 2010 – 6:11 pm
They (the infamous they) say that the first step in dealing with a problem is to admit that you have one. So, this entry. “My God!” you must be thinking, “what problem is this that Jeremy feels the need to announce on his blog for all the world to see?” It must be horrible; I [...]
September 27, 2009 – 11:10 am
While I know that this will not be the solution to everyone who is having problems between Snow Leopard and various CIFS (SMB) server implementations, I wanted to post my solution with as many keywords that google would pick it up and hopefully help a few other people. The Symptoms: After upgrading my new Mac [...]
September 9, 2009 – 3:40 pm
Today class, we will learn about states! California to be exact. And, well, learn might be too strong a word to describe the benefits from reading this report I wrote. My guess is that I wrote this in 1985 or so, which would have made me 10 years old at the time, so 5th grade. [...]
September 5, 2009 – 1:07 pm
My first computer was an Apple ][+; it was a wonderful little machine. I got it when I was 5 or 6 years old and started me on what has been a successful life in technology. Part of the reason I started to use a computer was as a compensation to my abysmally bad and [...]
September 2, 2009 – 12:54 pm
As promised, I wanted to give some observations and thoughts on our trip to Latvia for Robert and Laura’s wedding. Giving a day by day account is not my thing, so for that, look at my previous entry which has links to Tiffany’s journal of our adventure. I tried to make some notes of things [...]