April 2010
2 posts
Blippy takes a header
Wait a minute- you mean Blippy doesn’t already have someone who “focus(es) solely on issues relating to information security” A perfectly reasonable question might be: what are they focusing on?
Unforgivable.
Moving forward...
I’m happy to say that I have accepted a new position at Pivotal Labs.
I’m looking forward to absorbing new knowledge like a sponge, from the extraordinarily bright crew over there, as well as getting my ping pong game back into shape- actual table shown below, in non-actual size.
March 2010
1 post
Um, excuse me?
Opera Mini decrypts SSL at their site, then forwards it on to your mobile handset. Excuse me?
The only reason I can imagine that this isn’t the biggest security uproar in recent memory is that the Opera Mini market share isn’t big enough to have caught anyone’s attention yet.
Did you get that, world? If you use Opera Mini, they are decrypting your traffic in their own,...
November 2009
2 posts
Let's get sorta unique
Behold, I have released a new gem. Meet SUID- the sorta unique ID.
Reset with the best of them
One of my favorite designers, Chris Boone, has released his own, hand-tuned cross-browser reset stylesheets to the world. Check out the blog post, or just go directly to his GitHub for the files.
September 2009
1 post
End of civilization in three, two, ...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32641476/ns/us_news-life/
If society doesn’t spontaneously combust within the next 24 hours, I’ll take it that the “defense of marriage” crowd was just wrong, and get on with my life.
August 2009
1 post
Somehow, I'm incredulous...
Parsley:~/work/people_places_things(master)$ rake specs
(in /Users/dburkes/work/people_places_things)
.......................................................................
Finished in 0.0708490000000001 seconds
71 examples, 0 failures
Rake now has timing resolution down to 10E-16 seconds? Uh huh…
July 2009
2 posts
Farmer Brown gets down
Continuing my food geek day, I lunched at farmerbrown’s today. After 29 years in the South, I think I know me something about some fried chicken. So, naturally, I went into this rather skeptically.
What a pleasant surprise! The fried chicken was just that- a piece of chicken, battered, and fried. No frou-frou dusting of single-origin free range asparagus zest. No attempt to...
June 2009
0 posts
New beginnings
With the death of Lingr and Rejaw, I was forced to relocate my blog, because it was hosted on one of Lingr’s servers. So here I am again, world- lost as ever.