Tony Finch – link log

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• 2009‑12‑30: Brian Krebs has a new web site to replace the Washington Post "Security Fix" blog.
• 2009‑12‑29: A Lua binding for Tokyo Tyrant.
• 2009‑12‑26: The C Programming Language by B.W.Kernighan & D.M.Richie & H.P.Lovecraft.
• 2009‑12‑23: Stranded passengers rescued from snow by steam train.
• 2009‑12‑23: Disable Space switching on Command-Tab in Mac OS X 10.5.2.
• 2009‑12‑23: Video reveals twists and turns of genital warfare in ducks.
• 2009‑12‑23: Apple's loss of ZFS.
• 2009‑12‑23: The status of the P vs. NP problem.
• 2009‑12‑22: "Overtime", a Laundry story by Charlie Stross.
• 2009‑12‑22: No. 10 petition to ban use of 084xxx and 087xxx numbers in the public sector.
• 2009‑12‑22: A review of administrative tools for DNSSEC.
• 2009‑12‑21: Government to ban the NHS from using premium rate phone numbers.
• 2009‑12‑20: Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses.
• 2009‑12‑20: Khoros: a Lua operating system.
• 2009‑12‑19: Has AT&T Wireless data congestion been self-inflicted?
• 2009‑12‑17: Object/relational mapping is the Vietnam war of computer science.
• 2009‑12‑17: James Randi, global warming, Bertrand Russell, and the nature of scepticism.
• 2009‑12‑16: Nominet deletes 1200 .co.uk domains that the police say are used by criminal counterfeiters.
• 2009‑12‑16: Current status of DNSSEC in various TLDs.
• 2009‑12‑16: Root-DNSSEC.org - information about DNSSEC for the root zone.
• 2009‑12‑14: .US TLD now signed with DNSSEC.
• 2009‑12‑14: A validator for iCalendar.
• 2009‑12‑12: Mathematical software and me: a very personal recollection by William Stein.
• 2009‑12‑11: Advice on the values to choose for DNSSEC configuration parameters.
• 2009‑12‑11: A silly shipping forecast. (YouTube)
• 2009‑12‑10: Preparing k.root-servers.net for a signed root zone.
• 2009‑12‑10: Can the grid cope with an all-electric car fleet?
• 2009‑12‑10: Police say being on the DNA database will harm your career, even if innocent.
• 2009‑12‑09: An infrastructure service anti-pattern.
• 2009‑12‑08: SIDN prepares to introduce DNSSEC for .nl zone.
• 2009‑12‑08: The Register's units of measurement (2)
• 2009‑12‑08: The Register's units of measurement (1)
• 2009‑12‑08: List of humorous units of measurement.
• 2009‑12‑08: The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well.
• 2009‑12‑08: The Security Skeptic on ICANN's model for high security zone verification.
• 2009‑12‑08: The incompatible food triad.
• 2009‑12‑08: Mathematically correct breakfast: Möbius sliced linked bagel.
• 2009‑12‑07: Super-injunctions can prevent papers from reporting on parliament.
• 2009‑12‑07: The pernicious rise of the CRB Stasi - Manor Community College in Cambridge bans all un-checked visitors.
• 2009‑12‑07: Canadian recording industry is target of $60 billion copyright infringement lawsuit.
• 2009‑12‑07: List of unusual units of measurement.
• 2009‑12‑07: Cambridge T-shirts.
• 2009‑12‑06: Fox News insists on being able to knowingly broadcast false news reports.
• 2009‑12‑05: Live music in pubs tied up in red tape?
• 2009‑12‑04: Home Office suppresses drugs policy research despite FOIA.
• 2009‑12‑03: Anti-Grain Geometry - high quality 2D rendering engine for C++.
• 2009‑11‑30: Hazel Atkinson anodized aluminium jewellery (flash).
• 2009‑11‑30: Primodise - high resolution full colour images anodized into aluminium.
• 2009‑11‑26: James Hague on sufficiently smart compilers.
• 2009‑11‑26: The PI 14 pseudoacoustic infector.
• 2009‑11‑26: How science is shackled by intellectual property.
• 2009‑11‑25: Official repository for Erlang/OTP is now on github.
• 2009‑11‑24: How to make Homo Economicus and Homo Irrationalis disappear.
• 2009‑11‑24: Exploit shellcode that looks like English text.
• 2009‑11‑24: The "Mandelbulb" fractal.
• 2009‑11‑24: The British parliament is sick and decaying, says Graham Allen MP.
• 2009‑11‑24: The first person to be jailed in the UK for witholding encryption keys.
• 2009‑11‑23: Valerie Aurora describes the Featherstitch filesystem.
• 2009‑11‑23: Children's clothes and gender.
• 2009‑11‑23: Inflation-adjusted value of British coins and notes, 1900-2008.
• 2009‑11‑23: IE addons gallery - search providers. (Note the prominent omission!)
• 2009‑11‑23: News Corp wants to pay Microsoft to tell them how to use robots.txt.
• 2009‑11‑23: Carl Gutekunst provides data from Postini on the unverifiability of most MX server TLS certificates.
• 2009‑11‑20: The IETF's position on stupid email disclaimers.
• 2009‑11‑20: Telnic is worried about the UK government's plans to regulate DNS registries.
• 2009‑11‑20: Motorola Droid autofocus bug related to signed 32bit millisecond counter.
• 2009‑11‑19: Golang vs. Algol 68.
• 2009‑11‑18: Nginx HTTP push module - comet for the people.
• 2009‑11‑18: Understanding scam victims: seven principles for systems security.
• 2009‑11‑18: An interview with John Gottman - couples therapy and marriage.
• 2009‑11‑18: Exploding high-pressure steam engines and computer software.
• 2009‑11‑18: Pigeon: Impossible.
• 2009‑11‑17: VT220 glyphs.
• 2009‑11‑17: The physical basis of the leap second.
• 2009‑11‑17: Securityfix article about donotreply.com.
• 2009‑11‑14: Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger.
• 2009‑11‑13: A20 gate compatibility problems.
• 2009‑11‑12: Jesus Weir Cambridge micro-hydro electricity generation report.
• 2009‑11‑12: Splay trees.
• 2009‑11‑12: Scapegoat trees.
• 2009‑11‑11: Johann Hari says we should end drugs prohibition.
• 2009‑11‑11: The Go programming language, from the Plan 9 team at Google.
• 2009‑11‑10: Google tech talk on inertial electrostatic confinement fusion.
• 2009‑11‑09: Guy Snape's bread secrets.
• 2009‑11‑09: Multi-touch visualizer for unibody MacBooks.
• 2009‑11‑07: List of cats with fraudulent diplomas.
• 2009‑11‑06: Joda Time - Java date and time API.
• 2009‑11‑06: PNUTS: Yahoo!s hosted data serving platform.
• 2009‑11‑05: David Howarth MP to stand down at the next election.
• 2009‑11‑04: The complete guide to publishing PGP keys in the DNS.
• 2009‑11‑04: What would happen if you gently lowered the moon to a kissing contact with the earth?
• 2009‑11‑04: Fully countering "Trusting Trust" by diverse double-compiling.
• 2009‑11‑03: Brewer's CAP theorem.
• 2009‑11‑03: Luasync - a Lua libevent binding.
• 2009‑11‑03: A Lua libevent binding designed to be a drop-in replacement for copas.
• 2009‑11‑03: Another Lua libevent binding.
• 2009‑11‑03: Notable implementation features of LuaJIT 2.
• 2009‑11‑02: LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta1 has been released.
• 2009‑10‑31: Quickmap version of the London Underground map.
• 2009‑10‑31: Google's disruptive "less than free" business model.
• 2009‑10‑29: Online resources for Cambridgeshire library users.
• 2009‑10‑27: The rel=vcs-* microformat (for links from web pages to source repositories).
• 2009‑10‑27: Scientologists convicted of fraud in France.
• 2009‑10‑22: Defending your cred against sexist (or otherwise biased) audiences.
• 2009‑10‑22: Redis: replicated data structure server.
• 2009‑10‑22: Alan Perlis's epigrams in programming.
• 2009‑10‑20: How Moody's sold its ratings and misled investors.
• 2009‑10‑19: Number 10 responds to postcode database petition with a lengthy content-free brush-off.
• 2009‑10‑19: How the Wall Street banks are making a billion dollars a month.
• 2009‑10‑18: 14 is the most likely age for a sex offender in the USA.
• 2009‑10‑16: The Taylor bell foundry in Loughborough rescued from bankruptcy.
• 2009‑10‑16: PetPorte RFID microchip controlled cat flap.
• 2009‑10‑16: Carter-Ruck still trying to stop Parliament talking about the Minton Report on Trafigura's pollution.
• 2009‑10‑15: Mike Pall's reading guide to the Lua source code.
• 2009‑10‑15: It is possible to booby-trap financial derivatives in a way that is intractable for a buyer to discover.
• 2009‑10‑14: Simon Singh gets leave to appeal Mr Justice Eady's decision in the chiropractic libel case.
• 2009‑10‑14: An obituary of Peter Carter-Ruck.
• 2009‑10‑13: A comparative study of costs in defamation proceedings across Europe.
• 2009‑10‑13: Why web development is hard.
• 2009‑10‑13: English Heritage blamed for throttling the belfry renewal business.
• 2009‑10‑13: The Telegraph on Taylor's of Loughborough, bellfounders.
• 2009‑10‑13: Warning: Time Machine may unexpectedly delete your backups.
• 2009‑10‑13: Guardian / Carter-Ruck / Trafigura link round-up.
• 2009‑10‑13: The Minton report on Trafigura's dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast.
• 2009‑10‑13: The Spectator on the Guardian / Carter-Ruck / Trafigura pollution cover-up injunction scandal.
• 2009‑10‑13: The Dyson air amplifier: a fan without blades.
• 2009‑10‑13: Dr Martens shoe for £100 with guaranteed replacements and repairs for the rest of your life.
• 2009‑10‑12: Guardian gagged from reporting parliament, in contravention of the 1688 Bill of Rights.
• 2009‑10‑12: How safe is Gardasil? (the HPV vaccine used in the USA)
• 2009‑10‑12: Dan Gillmor's 22 new rules of news.
• 2009‑10‑12: My local bus service cut by 50%
• 2009‑10‑09: Microsoft's time server code completely ignores leap seconds.
• 2009‑10‑09: Frank's compulsive guide to postal addresses: effective addressing for international mail from the USA.
• 2009‑10‑09: Government slaps Ofsted for trying to treat informal childcare arrangements like professional services.
• 2009‑10‑08: DRAM errors in the wild: a large-scale field study by Google.
• 2009‑10‑08: Number 10 petition for a free postcode database.
• 2009‑10‑06: DNSSEC for the root zone - roll-out between December 2009 and July 2010.
• 2009‑10‑06: Exchange 2003 suppress out-of-office replies to mailing lists.
• 2009‑10‑05: Objective Lua.
• 2009‑10‑05: Obfuscated Lua.
• 2009‑10‑05: Alpine's busy-waiting spinners.
• 2009‑10‑02: iPhone Wax: develop native UIKit apps in Lua.
• 2009‑10‑02: The Spamhaus CSS (Composite Snow-Shoe) blacklist.
• 2009‑09‑30: Windows DNS servers do not implement RFC 1982 SOA serial number arithmetic.
• 2009‑09‑30: Google catches up with what Lotus Notes did 20 years ago.
• 2009‑09‑29: A bit about the maths behind RAID Z3.
• 2009‑09‑29: UK social trends report, 2009 edition.
• 2009‑09‑29: Details of Reddit's markdown javascript escaping hole.
• 2009‑09‑29: Number 10 petition on reciprocal childcare.
• 2009‑09‑28: Xpra - persistent remote applications for X.
• 2009‑09‑28: NIC.AT's position paper on DNSSEC.
• 2009‑09‑28: The US healthcare debate: Jonathan Haidt on how our moral roots skew our reasoning.
• 2009‑09‑28: The no-nannying state.
• 2009‑09‑27: Flavours of programming.
• 2009‑09‑25: Gitolite: shared git repository hosting with access control.
• 2009‑09‑25: The framing of al-Megrahi.
• 2009‑09‑25: Cambridge architecture post 1945.
• 2009‑09‑25: Say No to 0870 application approved for iPhone store.
• 2009‑09‑24: Online dating advice: what exactly to say in a first message. (data from OKCupid)
• 2009‑09‑24: Best US->UK travel adaptor ever.
• 2009‑09‑23: What is a good first programming language?
• 2009‑09‑23: FreeBSD gitorious mirror.
• 2009‑09‑23: Complexity attacks on stateful firewalls.
• 2009‑09‑21: What is the right way to raise children?
• 2009‑09‑21: The report from ICANN's study into scaling the DNS root.
• 2009‑09‑20: The unspoken truth about managing geeks.
• 2009‑09‑20: New Scientist science fiction special.
• 2009‑09‑18: Attacks on Unix/Linux package managers.
• 2009‑09‑18: NetPGP - a pgp implementation that comes with NetBSD.
• 2009‑09‑18: BSD licensed OpenPGP implementation.
• 2009‑09‑18: Ars Technica on Apple's Grand Central Dispatch.
• 2009‑09‑17: Disabled people and terminology in the social model of disability.
• 2009‑09‑15: User community for the Windows subsystem for Unix applications, aka Interix.
• 2009‑09‑09: DAFT: disk-geometry-aware filesystem traversal.
• 2009‑09‑07: Prof. David Mackay appointed Chief Scientific Advisor in the Department for Energy and Climate Change.
• 2009‑09‑03: New Dr Evil, er, I mean, F-Secure logo.
• 2009‑09‑02: A history of marriage.
• 2009‑09‑02: Emmanuel College Cambridge is willing to perform gay marriages.
• 2009‑09‑01: Bananajour: a Ruby program to share git repositories on your LAN using DNS-SD.
• 2009‑08‑27: SD is a distributed bug tracker, built on Prophet, a lightweight database designed for distributed and disconnected operation.
• 2009‑08‑16: David Mazières' rant on C++'s operator new.
• 2009‑08‑14: iPhone 3GS has slower floating point than the 3G.
• 2009‑08‑13: Computer vision algorithms for grabbing Sudoku puzzles with an iPhone.
• 2009‑08‑12: Jon Warbrick's blog.
• 2009‑08‑07: Nice visualizations of the computer languages benchmark game.
• 2009‑08‑06: The eradication of null dereferencing in Eiffel.
• 2009‑08‑06: DJB on the vulnerabilities in his dnscache.
• 2009‑08‑06: Rapid poisoning of djbdns dnscache.
• 2009‑08‑04: Tactical Corsets bring female operators MILSPEC features like MOLLE modular pouch attachment webbing and self-adjustable quick-release buckles in a load-bearing carrier designed to support the female form.
• 2009‑08‑04: The many ways in which Exchange+Outlook's "recall message" feature does not work.
• 2009‑08‑04: The perils of outsourcing your city mini-guides to the cheapest bidder.
• 2009‑08‑04: Trinity College, Cambridge in talks to buy Millennium Dome.
• 2009‑08‑04: Advice on designing scientific posters.
• 2009‑08‑03: A discussion of data quality improvements for LibraryThing.
• 2009‑08‑03: Objects as modules in Newspeak.
• 2009‑07‑31: Skype may be shut down because of a licensing dispute.
• 2009‑07‑28: Junio Hamano's implementation of Linus's "Newton-Raphson" idea.
• 2009‑07‑28: Linus Torvalds suggests using Newton-Raphson to search uniformly-distributed data faster.
• 2009‑07‑28: GPP is a general-purpose preprocessor.
• 2009‑07‑28: The Birthday Calendar: a modest proposal for calendar reform.
• 2009‑07‑28: A practical solution for scripting language compilers.
• 2009‑07‑24: Nirvana vs Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up.
• 2009‑07‑23: Using the Newton-Raphson method to make a binary search faster on uniformly distributed data.
• 2009‑07‑23: Variants of the Almquist Shell.
• 2009‑07‑20: Best practices in automated systems administration and infrastructure architecture.
• 2009‑07‑19: Prospects for an engineering discipline of software.
• 2009‑07‑16: Maps of the UK in the 1940s, plus postcode data gathering.
• 2009‑07‑15: Sprint outsources its network, the core of its business, to Ericsson - nothing left but billing and customer service?
• 2009‑07‑14: Tony Sale, founder of the Bletchley Park museum.
• 2009‑07‑14: Remote code execution vulnerability in ISC dhclient - don't use DHCP on an untrusted network until you have upgraded!
• 2009‑07‑14: Guinness World Records fail at trademark protection.
• 2009‑07‑14: Andrew Tridgell on the history of Samba.
• 2009‑07‑14: Loss of root certificate authority private keys has serious consequences for German electronic health card.
• 2009‑07‑14: Google's Microsoft moment.
• 2009‑07‑14: The not-so-hidden politics of class online.
• 2009‑07‑14: 112-bit prime elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) solved using cluster of 200 PS/3 game consoles.
• 2009‑07‑14: Debugging a weather station rain sensor.
• 2009‑07‑14: Pupil banned from cycling to school.
• 2009‑07‑13: SMX: server macro expansion language.
• 2009‑07‑10: Photography advice from the Metropolitan Police.
• 2009‑07‑10: PubSubHubbub draft protocol spec.
• 2009‑07‑10: What English would look like if it were purged of its non-Germanic words and used German-style compounds instead of borrowings to express new concepts.
• 2009‑07‑10: H-Store: a next generation OLTP DBMS.
• 2009‑07‑10: "Creating the innocent killer: Ender's Game, intention, and morality" - John Kessel's more moderate examination of the story.
• 2009‑07‑10: Orson Scott Card has always been an asshat - some background to Radford's essay about Ender and Hitler.
• 2009‑07‑10: Ender and Hitler: sympathy for the superman.
• 2009‑07‑10: Microsoft Gazelle: the web browser as operating system. (I wonder how close Google Chrome gets to this research model.)
• 2009‑07‑10: VL2: a scalable and flexible data center network.
• 2009‑07‑10: PortLand: a scalable fault-tolerant layer 2 data center network fabric.
• 2009‑07‑09: How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm - a practical guide. (WTF?)
• 2009‑07‑08: A guide to the rights of photographers in the UK. (v.2)
• 2009‑07‑08: CADR - automated DNS registry delegation updates using DNSSEC.
• 2009‑07‑08: UK 3G mobile broadband coverage maps.
• 2009‑07‑07: Transforming RFC 2629 formatted XML through XSLT.
• 2009‑07‑07: A review of "The Tyrannicide Brief: the story of the man who sent Charles I to the scaffold".
• 2009‑07‑07: Mental models, consistency, and programming aptitude.
• 2009‑07‑07: Decentralized Deduplication in SAN cluster file systems.
• 2009‑07‑07: Arianna Huffington: obsessiveness is the greatest strength of online news.
• 2009‑07‑06: Groovy wouldn't exist if its author had had Scala instead.
• 2009‑07‑06: Diagrams of HGV blind spots.
• 2009‑07‑03: Brompton World Championship 2009 - a bike race with a collar-and-tie dress code.
• 2009‑07‑03: Elsevier fails to block release of its licensing deal with Washington State University.
• 2009‑07‑03: Debunking Canadian health care myths.
• 2009‑07‑03: Think again about Asia's rise.
• 2009‑07‑03: Excellent case study of an online banking exploit based on spam, malware, and dupes.
• 2009‑07‑02: The Management Myth - on the uselessness of MBAs.
• 2009‑07‑02: Thoughtcrime Experiments - an open source anthology.
• 2009‑07‑02: Heather Brooke's statement given to the parliamentary review of the expenses scandal.
• 2009‑07‑01: A review of the Polymath1 experiment in open collaborative mathematics.
• 2009‑07‑01: Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
• 2009‑07‑01: European Commission persuades mobile phone manufacturers to standardize on micro-USB for connecting chargers.
• 2009‑07‑01: Correlation between mass extinctions and the Earth's oscillation between galactic north and south.
• 2009‑07‑01: The Pumpabike commercially-available human-powered hydrofoil. (horrid flash site)
• 2009‑07‑01: The Cetan II human-powered hydrofoil, aiming to beat the water speed record.
• 2009‑07‑01: The "Decavitator" human-powered hydrofoil, holder of the water speed record.
• 2009‑07‑01: IBM uses water to cool a supercomputer to 60 celcius.
• 2009‑06‑30: Oxmail activity graphs.
• 2009‑06‑30: The computer of 2010 as predicted by Forbes in 2000 - hopeless.
• 2009‑06‑30: CCured is a source-to-source translator for C. It analyzes the C program to determine the smallest number of run-time checks that must be inserted in the program to prevent all memory safety violations.
• 2009‑06‑29: Hosting git repositories the easy and secure way.
• 2009‑06‑29: A basic guide to in-ear-canalphones.
• 2009‑06‑28: Evan Weaver's primer on distributed systems.
• 2009‑06‑28: Evolving Twitter's architecture.
• 2009‑06‑28: The toaster project: trying to build a toaster, from scratch, beginning by mining the raw materials.
• 2009‑06‑28: How Linux supports more devices than any other OS, ever.
• 2009‑06‑28: Spam and virus filter providers cannot be sued by blocked senders in the USA, says federal appeals court.
• 2009‑06‑28: Help vampires: a spotter's guide.
• 2009‑06‑26: The English Patient: A man gets lost in the Philadelphia health system "What is this, fucking Kafka?" and lives to tell about it.
• 2009‑06‑26: CSS Play - pure CSS dynamic layout demos.
• 2009‑06‑24: Problems with shared access to calendars in Microsoft Exchange.
• 2009‑06‑24: Brilliant folding power plug.
• 2009‑06‑21: Table of UK universities' environmental performance.
• 2009‑06‑19: Heather Brooke on "blackwash".
• 2009‑06‑19: $1.9 million fine for downloading 24 songs worth 99c each.
• 2009‑06‑19: Rental Rights: getting a fair deal for tenants.
• 2009‑06‑19: Telegraph publishes unredacted versions of MP's expenses claims, for comparison with the heavily blacked-out ones published by Parliament.
• 2009‑06‑18: File sharing and copyright.
• 2009‑06‑17: Harvard study finds weaker copyright protection has benefited society.
• 2009‑06‑17: Greener desktop computing at OUCS.
• 2009‑06‑17: 20 of the world's most beautiful libraries.
• 2009‑06‑17: Hot Library Smut
• 2009‑06‑17: Atlas Obscura: wondrous, curious, and bizarre locations around the world.
• 2009‑06‑17: Washington is unable to call all the shots, says the Shanghai co-operation organization.
• 2009‑06‑16: The Wellcome Library's pragmatic orphan works policy.
• 2009‑06‑16: A review of "Against Intellectual Monopoly".
• 2009‑06‑15: SoftHSM: a software implementation of the PKCS#11 hardware security module interface.
• 2009‑06‑15: Up to 30% of Medicare spending is wasted on needless care.
• 2009‑06‑15: Mornington Crescent - deluxe edition!
• 2009‑06‑15: Police delays prevented prosecution for death of a cyclist.
• 2009‑06‑15: Student statement on the right to research.
• 2009‑06‑14: A brief history of distributed consensus and transactions.
• 2009‑06‑14: The FT covers MAAWG and gets rather excited about a "secret war" on "cyber-criminals".
• 2009‑06‑14: YouTube encodings compared to Ogg Theora/Vorbis.
• 2009‑06‑14: An exhibition about the Putney Debates of 1647, at St Mary's Church near Putney Bridge.
• 2009‑06‑14: Zombie operating systems and ASP.NET MVC - the same bug as in the story of mailx's aux.c source file.
• 2009‑06‑12: Copyright in science is holding us back; Ignore it.
• 2009‑06‑12: Two videos on intelligent traffic design.
• 2009‑06‑12: Is Mr Justice Eady a friend of a free Press? There are good reasons to believe that he isn't.
• 2009‑06‑10: The WHO cocaine report the US didn't want you to see.
• 2009‑06‑10: The Economist on Simon Singh and the British Chiropractic Association.
• 2009‑06‑10: Chiropractors take down their websites for fear of prosecution for false advertising.
• 2009‑06‑10: Metropolitan Police accused of waterboarding suspects.
• 2009‑06‑09: "Teach the controversy" t-shirts.
• 2009‑06‑09: Some of the technology behind Apple's Grand Central Dispatch.
• 2009‑06‑09: Pro-sw-patent lobby admits that the European patent litigation agreement aims to create software patents by the back door.
• 2009‑06‑09: What kind of people voted for the BNP?
• 2009‑06‑09: I think there's something wrong with your computer...
• 2009‑06‑09: John Lanchester writes about the financial crisis.
• 2009‑06‑09: Compaq's Personal Jukebox: the proto-iPod.
• 2009‑06‑09: 62% of personal bankruptcies in US due to medical costs. 78% of them had insurance.
• 2009‑06‑09: What the government doesn't understand about the Internet, and what to do about it.
• 2009‑06‑09: Cool "app wall" display at WWDC.
• 2009‑06‑09: New laws in the USA defend free speech against harmful UK libel trials.
• 2009‑06‑08: The Compensation Recovery Unit - recovers some social security costs from insurance providers.
• 2009‑06‑08: The history of ClariNet.com.
• 2009‑06‑08: Instruction manual to operate and maintain Charles Babbage's 2nd Difference Engine.
• 2009‑06‑08: Clarence Saunders, inventor of the self-service grocer's shop.
• 2009‑06‑08: Googlers talk about how they manage search quality.
• 2009‑06‑08: Swedish Pirate Party wins seat in EU parliament.
• 2009‑06‑06: Tom Swifties from Schott's Vocab Blog.
• 2009‑06‑05: US government gives DNS root key to Verisign.
• 2009‑06‑05: The impending demise of the university - going the way of the newspaper.
• 2009‑06‑05: Prospect Magazine says Tiananmen Square is irrelevant to young Chinese because they now have the freedom and prosperity they wanted.
• 2009‑06‑05: The maths gender gap is not innate.
• 2009‑06‑04: Typing the letters A-E-S into your code? You're doing it wrong!
• 2009‑06‑04: Linux Mag on NILFS2: a new implementation of a log-structured filesystem for Linux.
• 2009‑06‑04: Sign up to support Simon Singh's libel defence against the chiropractic quacks.
• 2009‑06‑03: Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.
• 2009‑06‑03: Roald Dahl's daughter died of measels aged seven.
• 2009‑06‑03: Yay, UCL goes 100% open access - pity the FT repeats lies from the secret science lobby.
• 2009‑06‑03: US Supreme Court to hear appeal of "Bilski" - likely to restrict patents further?
• 2009‑06‑02: Why "robots.txt" and "favicon.ico" are bad ideas and should not be emulated.
• 2009‑06‑02: Why you should also not vove for UKIP.
• 2009‑06‑02: Why you should not vote for the Green party.
• 2009‑06‑02: LWN on the Debian flamewar over Okular's support for PDF copy restrictions.
• 2009‑06‑02: Prospect Magazine publishes two thirds of my letter in response to last month's "Email Tax" article.
• 2009‑06‑01: A woman talks about how havng sex with women is good for her self-esteem.
• 2009‑06‑01: Going to the dogs - Theodore Dalrymple criticizes the liberal consensus.
• 2009‑06‑01: Piracy is the next-generation media platform.
• 2009‑05‑31: Where fantasy and sf authors write.
• 2009‑05‑31: The audio output mess on Linux.
• 2009‑05‑30: Apple Unicode private use characters.
• 2009‑05‑30: Teach your children to argue.
• 2009‑05‑28: Wine on Windows - Wine has better compatibility with old Windows apps than Windows.
• 2009‑05‑28: Lessons on evidence-resistent theories from the vaccine-autism wars.
• 2009‑05‑28: Teaching Copyright the EFF way.
• 2009‑05‑27: Consistent overhead byte stuffing - efficient binary escaping.
• 2009‑05‑27: Using static and shared libraries across platforms.
• 2009‑05‑26: #ifdef considered harmful.
• 2009‑05‑26: An algebraic approach to file synchronization.
• 2009‑05‑26: Judge investigating accusations of bias in Pirate Bay case removed because of bias!
• 2009‑05‑25: Google Maps query parameters.
• 2009‑05‑24: Safari 4 hidden settings.
• 2009‑05‑24: Paxos made live - Google's implementation experience.
• 2009‑05‑24: Referendum 2010 - campaign for proportional representation.
• 2009‑05‑22: Unison file synchronizer.
• 2009‑05‑21: Rules for time travellers.
• 2009‑05‑21: ACLU challenges Myriad Genetics' patents on breast cancer genes.
• 2009‑05‑21: Lawrence Lessig rips Mark Helprin to shreds.
• 2009‑05‑20: Role models for adolescent boys.
• 2009‑05‑20: DNS TLD trust dependency graphs.
• 2009‑05‑20: Google builds Street View trikes to map UK footpaths.
• 2009‑05‑19: The safer the seat, the more likely the MP is to be involved in the expenses scandal.
• 2009‑05‑19: David A. Wheeler argues Unix pathnames should have a restricted character set.
• 2009‑05‑19: Sophos Klingon anti-virus.
• 2009‑05‑19: MS "fixes" architectural error in Exchange by throwing away X- headers.
• 2009‑05‑19: Helena Kennedy prescribes some medicine for a sick democracy.
• 2009‑05‑19: In Pursuit of Elegance: Guy Kawasaki interviews Matthew May.
• 2009‑05‑19: The Cobra programming language.
• 2009‑05‑18: Ordnance Survey disables Google Earth viewer for no clear reason.
• 2009‑05‑18: On designing and deploying Internet-scale services.
• 2009‑05‑17: The datacenter as a computer: an introduction to the design of warehouse-scale machines.
• 2009‑05‑17: A really good discussion about the links between analytic philosophy and the theory of computing.
• 2009‑05‑17: Time for proportional representation in Westminster?
• 2009‑05‑17: Five pieces of jun that turned out to be valuable artefacts.
• 2009‑05‑15: Yet Another Build System - a Python-based build system with automatic dependency detection.
• 2009‑05‑15: A generic program memoizer.
• 2009‑05‑15: MySociety says MPs expenses are the best example yet of why FOI is a good law.
• 2009‑05‑15: Ross Anderson, David Mackay, and others elected fellows of the Royal Society.
• 2009‑05‑15: How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing.
• 2009‑05‑15: How hard the MPs tried to keep their dirty secrets.
• 2009‑05‑13: HADOPI for print.
• 2009‑05‑12: Vesta: a configuration management system from DEC SRC.
• 2009‑05‑12: Killer driver escapes jail - cyclist to blame.
• 2009‑05‑12: List of Roman place names in Britain.
• 2009‑05‑11: The Oxbridge limericks game.
• 2009‑05‑11: git-central: scripts and hooks for use with a centralized git repository.
• 2009‑05‑11: Brilliant video - war of words?
• 2009‑05‑11: Gitosis - shared git repository sandbox.
• 2009‑05‑11: J.G-C's research resources for "The Geek Atlas", including why Wikipedia is better than Britannica.
• 2009‑05‑10: NYT TiernyLab discusses attention and concentration.
• 2009‑05‑10: Why can't we concentrate? A review of "Rapt: attention and the focused life" by Winifred Gallagher.
• 2009‑05‑10: MPs and the Guardian wake up to G20 agents provocateurs, a month after Craig Murray.
• 2009‑05‑09: UK IPO approves patent for scriptable components on a mobile phone. Good grief.
• 2009‑05‑08: A video of son and father writing the alphabet - cute calligraphy.
• 2009‑05‑08: Web designer sacked by TF1 for opposing HADOPI.
• 2009‑05‑08: Naked Wines helps to put wine producers in closer contact with their ultimate customers.
• 2009‑05‑08: A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages.
• 2009‑05‑07: Gareth Peirce writes about torture, secrecy and the British state.
• 2009‑05‑07: Most home news in UK papers is churnalism - recycled PR and wire copy.
• 2009‑05‑06: On the disconnect between theory and reality in the study of the connectivity of the Internet.
• 2009‑05‑06: Drug decriminalization is a success in Portugal.
• 2009‑05‑06: David Colquhoun explains that bacon doesn't cause cancer.
• 2009‑05‑05: Prospect Magazine publishes a sadly ignorant proposal for an email tax.
• 2009‑05‑05: Can we afford technological salvation? The increasing energy intensity of manufacturing and IT.
• 2009‑05‑05: The effectiveness of various contraceptives.
• 2009‑05‑05: This government has been the most right-wing since the second world war.
• 2009‑05‑01: Christians more likely to support torture.
• 2009‑05‑01: Good ways to glue this to that.
• 2009‑05‑01: Low-salt diets do not help to prevent heart disease or high blood pressure.
• 2009‑05‑01: Cowboy cost savings for boiler installation.
• 2009‑04‑29: Homebrew on an oceanographic research vessel using a filter coffee machine.
• 2009‑04‑29: The flip ship - bonkers!
• 2009‑04‑29: Parliament hears about UK government support of torture.
• 2009‑04‑29: UK Passport Service now vetoing changes of name!
• 2009‑04‑29: Cache-oblivious search trees.
• 2009‑04‑28: Using git for what it is not intended.
• 2009‑04‑28: Peter Serafinowicz on swine flu.
• 2009‑04‑28: Hilarious bug: "OpenOffice cannot print on Tuesdays".
• 2009‑04‑28: README file for the DNSSEC-tools SSHFP host key validation patch for OpenSSH.
• 2009‑04‑28: Uncopyright: feel free to steal my content
• 2009‑04‑28: Readability - a bookmarklet for stripping down web pages.
• 2009‑04‑27: Defining multiple environments with puppet for development/testing/production.
• 2009‑04‑27: Using a svn branch for testing puppet configurations.
• 2009‑04‑27: The MacGyver multitool - the only tool you'll ever need!
• 2009‑04‑26: Fast string encoding implementations - base64, hex, etc.
• 2009‑04‑26: Google Maps typography.
• 2009‑04‑26: The Pirate Google - a replacement for The Pirate Bay using a custom Google search.
• 2009‑04‑26: "Notebook" - a brilliant recursive animation featuring magical paper.
• 2009‑04‑25: Is the supremacy of object-oriented programming over?
• 2009‑04‑25: Derailing for Dummies: making discrimination easier!
• 2009‑04‑25: Being an offshore programmer in the oil industry.
• 2009‑04‑24: Compare Google Maps and OpenStreetMap using a semi-transparent overlay - cool!
• 2009‑04‑24: The origins of the BITC programming language.
• 2009‑04‑24: Scenic or not? Rate the UK's pretty places.
• 2009‑04‑24: Leo - a versatile data management platform. (outline/graph editor?)
• 2009‑04‑24: The Last Straw Man - how the UK is becoming a police state.
• 2009‑04‑23: CycleStreets - cycling route planner for the UK based on OpenStreetMap, produced by the Cambridge Cycling Campaign.
• 2009‑04‑23: Cambridge to join Eduroam in the summer - brilliantly easy international WiFi roaming.
• 2009‑04‑23: Small-scale benchmark of a few key/value stores - Tokyo Cabinet wins.
• 2009‑04‑22: How to display the date in the menu bar on Mac OS X.
• 2009‑04‑22: Taga - a neat convertible trike / pushchair.
• 2009‑04‑22: ISC starts development work on BIND 10.
• 2009‑04‑21: Bogus patent infringement claims against JMRI open source model railway software.
• 2009‑04‑21: Piracy is progressive taxation, and other online distribution lessons from Tim O'Reilly.
• 2009‑04‑21: How celebrity chefs changed the way we eat.
• 2009‑04‑21: Notes on distributed key-value stores - Tokyo Cabinet wins.
• 2009‑04‑21: Amazing urban bike tricks - cycle parkour!
• 2009‑04‑21: A history of bootlegs on Radio 4 - how illegal recording made a new market for music. (Available to listen until the 26th.)
• 2009‑04‑21: Pirates buy more music.
• 2009‑04‑21: Themes in contemporary analytic philosophy as reflected in the work of Monty Python.
• 2009‑04‑20: Shami Chakrabarti speaking in Cambridge on Friday.
• 2009‑04‑19: High-precision arithmetic libraries, including double-double and quad-double implementations.
• 2009‑04‑13: La Charronnière - my Mum's gites.
• 2009‑04‑11: The increasing frequency of black swan events - caused by greater efficiency and interdependence.
• 2009‑04‑11: Microsoft's increasingly aggressive patent enforcement policy.
• 2009‑04‑11: Inhalable chocolate aerosol - sounds like something Heston Blumemthal would do.
• 2009‑04‑11: A diagram of the many businesses that sprang from Star Wars.
• 2009‑04‑11: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 copyright waiver.
• 2009‑04‑10: A scientific approach to soft boiled eggs.
• 2009‑04‑10: Jenny McCarthy Body Count - disease and death in the US preventable by vaccination.
• 2009‑04‑09: Cory Doctorow loves David MacKay's book "Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air"
• 2009‑04‑09: Russian depopulation.
• 2009‑04‑09: Test cases for the Content-Disposition header and RFC 2231 / 2047 encoding in HTTP.
• 2009‑04‑08: Slack: configuration management based on rsync.
• 2009‑04‑07: Computer science should be taught using more interesting and motivating examples.
• 2009‑04‑07: The best way to rob a bank is to own one.
• 2009‑04‑07: 10% of CA-certified code is malware, and this malware is more effective than average.
• 2009‑04‑07: The IETF is an unusual example of a Habermasian discourse - a rulemaking proces that legitimates its own outcomes.
• 2009‑04‑07: DNS root to be signed by the end of the year?
• 2009‑04‑07: Akamai Application Accelerator caveats.
• 2009‑04‑07: Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity - the European trans-national grid.
• 2009‑04‑07: CSS is awesome - a mug for web developers.
• 2009‑04‑07: The dark side of Dubai.
• 2009‑04‑07: Steve Crocker explains how the Internet got its RFCs.
• 2009‑04‑02: CalConnect reflections and recommendations arising from the 2007 US DST change.
• 2009‑04‑02: Keep /etc in git or other DVCSs - etckeeper.
• 2009‑04‑02: What's the use of Twitter?
• 2009‑04‑01: Wrong Tomorrow - keeping track of predictions from pundits.
• 2009‑04‑01: Museum of Bad Art. (hilarious!)
• 2009‑04‑01: The man that wrote the software that turned mortgages into bonds.
• 2009‑04‑01: Continuous deployment in five easy steps.
• 2009‑04‑01: No, he can't - scathing article about Obama.
• 2009‑04‑01: Add command-line editing to arbitrary programs: rlwrap.
• 2009‑03‑31: Add command-line editing to arbitrary programs: with-readline.
• 2009‑03‑31: Reducing XSS by way of automatic context-aware escaping in template systems.
• 2009‑03‑31: Gibak: A better backup system built on Git.
• 2009‑03‑31: Why www is required for web servers under ox.ac.uk.
• 2009‑03‑31: Uighurs use unofficial timezone 2 hours behind Beijing.
• 2009‑03‑31: Clojure: functional programming for the JVM.
• 2009‑03‑31: Encarta to be discontinued.
• 2009‑03‑30: Anatole Kaletsky blames the crisis on politicians' love for the bogus axioms of academic economics.
• 2009‑03‑30: Two Cultures: 50 years on - a Royal Society debate. (I can guess what Ben Goldacre would say.)
• 2009‑03‑30: Lennart Augusstson releases cmonad, for writing Haskell in a C style. (brilliantly bonkers)
• 2009‑03‑30: Dan Geer's 1998 talk on information security, "risk management is where the money is".
• 2009‑03‑30: The Agena programming language.
• 2009‑03‑30: British team wins new land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle: 202.9 km/h.
• 2009‑03‑30: C++ draft standard.
• 2009‑03‑30: Another Aussie daylight savings change causes havoc.
• 2009‑03‑29: Aho & Ullman Foundations of Computer Science - now out of print but available online.
• 2009‑03‑29: Interview with David Simon, creator of The Wire - failed newspapers, political corruption, and life at the bottom.
• 2009‑03‑28: How to reverse yellowing of old plastics.
• 2009‑03‑28: UK government finally admits to receiving intelligence from torture.
• 2009‑03‑27: Top of the traditional British pie charts.
• 2009‑03‑27: The IMF's view of how to get out of a financial crisis: take power away from bankers.
• 2009‑03‑26: The number of Brits with amusing surnames has declined by up to 75 percent in the last century. (top quality headline)
• 2009‑03‑26: Googlers write about the unreasonable effectiveness of data in AI applications.
• 2009‑03‑26: Another computerish Devil's Dictionary.
• 2009‑03‑25: Overview of how Google handles outages.
• 2009‑03‑25: Fast HTTP polling with nginx, libevent, memcached.
• 2009‑03‑25: Abacus email ticketing system designed for handling email to abuse@.
• 2009‑03‑25: Valerie Aurora reviews "Women don't ask".
• 2009‑03‑24: Beej's guide to Unix IPC
• 2009‑03‑24: Some facts about Jon Skeet.
• 2009‑03‑24: The NASA Apollo guidance computer.
• 2009‑03‑24: Applications can force the clock to run fast on Windows.
• 2009‑03‑24: Akamai's parallel internet beats the public one, for their customers.
• 2009‑03‑24: The Express sort of apologises, not really understanding why they are so disgusting.
• 2009‑03‑23: Recording industry doesn't want to pay for anti-piracy efforts.
• 2009‑03‑23: Facebook does continuous deployment.
• 2009‑03‑23: And then they came for the vegetarians...
• 2009‑03‑23: Cambridge cabbies insist on parking illegally.
• 2009‑03‑22: Data storage and recovery problems at the US national archives.
• 2009‑03‑22: Perl script for Twitter-to-speech.
• 2009‑03‑21: Amazon EC2's strength is its simplicity.
• 2009‑03‑21: SOGo open-source groupware server.
• 2009‑03‑21: Forvo: all the words in the world, pronounced by native speakers.
• 2009‑03‑21: The Twouble with Twitters.
• 2009‑03‑21: A 1995 debate about online vs dead tree news.
• 2009‑03‑21: Value of a Yugoslav 0.1 Dinar coin.
• 2009‑03‑21: JISC provides advice on the use of Creative Commons licences in UK academia.
• 2009‑03‑20: Adam Roberts reviews Anathem, with funny neologisms.
• 2009‑03‑20: Building a better way of teaching the scientific method.
• 2009‑03‑20: Don't give prizes to people who hide exploitable security vulnerabilities.
• 2009‑03‑19: Steve Yegge investigates focus-follows-mouse on Mac OS X.
• 2009‑03‑18: And you thought you had too many books...
• 2009‑03‑18: Graham Linehan on that disgusting Sunday Express story.
• 2009‑03‑18: Google provides statistics on DMCA takedown abuse - 37% of notices are bogus.
• 2009‑03‑18: US Insurers must start disclosing how climate change is likely to affect their businesses.
• 2009‑03‑18: Emoji (Japanese phone emoticons) for Unicode.
• 2009‑03‑18: Some truths about Guantanamo Bay.
• 2009‑03‑18: AnandTech explains SSD performance.
• 2009‑03‑18: Intellectual property vices and crimes.
• 2009‑03‑18: RPC and its offspring are convenient yet fundamentally flawed.
• 2009‑03‑17: If you are a startup, don't do a big PR product launch.
• 2009‑03‑17: Microsoft reverts RFC 3484 brain damage in recent versions of Windows.
• 2009‑03‑17: rename(2) isn't atomic on Mac OS X.
• 2009‑03‑17: Linux TCP buffer autotuning causes congestion collapse.
• 2009‑03‑17: 9% of NTP pool servers failed to handle the leap second correctly.
• 2009‑03‑17: The average number of new students per department majoring in computer science is up 9.5 percent over last year. This is the first time enrollment increased in six years.
• 2009‑03‑17: Canada's science minister won't say if he believes in evolution. "I'm not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate."
• 2009‑03‑17: How to get a URL off the Google Safe Browsing list.
• 2009‑03‑17: Support for the Google Safe Browsing database in ClamAV.
• 2009‑03‑17: EPO seeks to validate software patents without the European Parliament.
• 2009‑03‑16: Operator overloading ad absurdum - I note that Haskell's type classes make disciplined operator naming easier.
• 2009‑03‑16: Statistics from the UK Vegetarian Society - 3% completely vegetarian plus 5% partly vegetarian.
• 2009‑03‑16: Copyright law is a "colossal cultural mistake".
• 2009‑03‑16: Newspapers are dying without piracy so the recording industry is wrong to blame its decline on piracy.
• 2009‑03‑16: More bogus propaganda about nonexistent terrorist reconnaisance.
• 2009‑03‑16: Making a radio in a POW camp - including making the components from scratch.
• 2009‑03‑16: Cambridge University standard entrance requirement to rise to A*AA.
• 2009‑03‑16: Mad conspiracy theory site about the Corpus clock.
• 2009‑03‑16: Article in Wired about the Corpus clock.
• 2009‑03‑16: Press Complaints Commission targets Sunday Express over vicious Dunblane non-story.
• 2009‑03‑16: How to straighten the leaning tower of Pisa - optical illusion.
• 2009‑03‑15: Nice memory map of Cambridge.
• 2009‑03‑15: David Mitchell on the public sector and online feedback.
• 2009‑03‑15: Old children's books may not be re-sold in USA because of fears over lead pigments.
• 2009‑03‑15: Apple DRM roundup.
• 2009‑03‑15: Understanding hypermedia as the engine of application state - on RESTful architecture.
• 2009‑03‑15: The death of business-method patents - the build-up to and possible effects of the Bilski decision.
• 2009‑03‑14: Grow-a-brain's compendious collection of clocks and watches.
• 2009‑03‑14: Unusual clock designs.
• 2009‑03‑14: Piracy has become mainstream.
• 2009‑03‑14: NHS Hounslow joins MMR campaign.
• 2009‑03‑14: Public health advertising for MMR - should have done this before take-up fell to 2/3.
• 2009‑03‑14: Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable.
• 2009‑03‑13: The architecture of the Burroughs B5000.
• 2009‑03‑13: SunOS C style guide.
• 2009‑03‑13: Amazon uses DMCA to restrict where you can buy e-books.
• 2009‑03‑13: USA rules texts of prospective anti-counterfeiting and IPR treaty are state secrets.
• 2009‑03‑12: The history of classical music shows that copyright doesn't do what its supporters claim.
• 2009‑03‑12: Millions of Brits can't read well enough to keep up with karaoke lyrics. (sounds like bad science to me)
• 2009‑03‑12: Reverse HTTP - direct support for COMET using the HTTP Upgrade: mechanism.
• 2009‑03‑12: The Bayeux protocol - a formalized version of COMET.
• 2009‑03‑12: Sun to take on the router market using Solaris on commodity hardware.
• 2009‑03‑12: The world's biggest diamond heist.
• 2009‑03‑12: The bastards at the Sunday Express discover that teenagers are teenagers and decide to spew their bile on the survivors of the Dunblane shootings.
• 2009‑03‑12: Frank Miller's Charlie Brown.
• 2009‑03‑12: Did the BBC break the law by demonstrating how to use a botnet? (yes)
• 2009‑03‑12: Stupid filesystems are better (on top of complicated storage systems).
• 2009‑03‑12: Number 10 petition from retired senior police officer to repeal section 110 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and replace it with legislation that protects the individual from arrest unless specifically sanctioned under specific legislation relating to a specific serious offence punishable with imprisonment.
• 2009‑03‑12: Lithium breakthrough could result in batteries that charge in 10 seconds.
• 2009‑03‑12: Domain specific pidgins.
• 2009‑03‑12: The "is it a DSL or an API?" ten question checklist.
• 2009‑03‑12: Economists say copyright and patent laws are killing innovation and hurting the economy.
• 2009‑03‑11: Periodic table of typefaces.
• 2009‑03‑11: PolarClock - pretty screensaver time display.
• 2009‑03‑11: Practical RSA threshold signatures.
• 2009‑03‑11: Programming languages and security: a short reading list.
• 2009‑03‑11: How strictly to follow the test-driven development religion?
• 2009‑03‑11: Memories, Guesses, and Apologies - comparing the cost of real-world errors and database consistency errors.
• 2009‑03‑11: Cloud pricing and application architecture - fine-grained billing rewards optimization.
• 2009‑03‑11: Top 10 inventions of the middle ages.
• 2009‑03‑10: Why Rand's philosophy is poison to everybody.
• 2009‑03‑10: Scanwiches.
• 2009‑03‑10: Academic journal prices are unrelated to their "impact factors".
• 2009‑03‑10: Gay rare duck breeding failure.
• 2009‑03‑10: Billy Bragg and Dave Rowntree on Google vs. the PRS.
• 2009‑03‑10: The problem with integer division in old versions of Python.
• 2009‑03‑10: Performing Rights Society tries to milk YouTube, makingl music videos too expensive to remain available in the UK.
• 2009‑03‑10: Train your spouse like an exotic animal in a zoo.
• 2009‑03‑09: Deliberately unsustainable business models - live fast, die young, don't jump the shark.
• 2009‑03‑09: The history of Comic Sans - inspired by Watchmen!
• 2009‑03‑09: Old portrait of Shakespeare re-discovered - other known pictures of him are probably copies of this one.
• 2009‑03‑09: Face recognition used to register pupils' attendance at some schools in Cambridgeshire.
• 2009‑03‑09: German car sales up with payment for scrapping old cars.
• 2009‑03‑09: Informing ourselves to death - bonkers.
• 2009‑03‑08: Telegraph.co.uk hacked by SQL injection, subscriber details and passwords revealed.
• 2009‑03‑07: The National Institutes of Health copyfight.
• 2009‑03‑07: Enterprise fizzbuzz.
• 2009‑03‑06: More about the Microsoft / Tom Tom patent lawsuit.
• 2009‑03‑06: 20% of all servers bought by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Amazon.
• 2009‑03‑06: LLVM 2.5 release notes.
• 2009‑03‑06: Google demands patent reform.
• 2009‑03‑05: The Cult of Done Manifesto.
• 2009‑03‑04: Another episode in the war against photography.
• 2009‑03‑04: Native French speakers don't agree on the genders of nouns.
• 2009‑03‑04: Things to be considered for RFC 3484 revision.
• 2009‑03‑04: DJB just awarded $1000 for a security hole in djbdns.
• 2009‑03‑04: Charlie Brooker's screen burn on Heston Blumenthal's Feast. Bonkers hilarity.
• 2009‑03‑04: Wave nature of light demonstrated by hand.
• 2009‑03‑03: Popular UK CCTV statistics are based on fiction.
• 2009‑03‑03: Wired publishes lies about the Japanese opinion of the iPhone.
• 2009‑03‑03: Runtime support for multicore Haskell.
• 2009‑03‑03: Newspapers are often not so badly off as their parent companies.
• 2009‑03‑03: Native Client security contest: can you break out of the sandbox?
• 2009‑03‑03: Simple dot product benchmark of Data-Parallel Haskell on manycore machines.
• 2009‑03‑03: The netbook effect: how cheap little laptops hit the big time.
• 2009‑03‑02: Pseudodoxia, or Vulgar Errors.
• 2009‑03‑02: Eight design patterns for errorproofing.
• 2009‑03‑02: Twitter compared to IM, email and forums.
• 2009‑03‑02: The Economist, in Chinese. Just add 240 citizen translators.
• 2009‑03‑02: Cambridge local nature reserves.
• 2009‑03‑02: A journalist ignores corrections from scientists and prints a disredited story with a misleading quote.
• 2009‑03‑02: Who now can stop the slow death of Venice?
• 2009‑03‑02: Research shows that the economic implications of file sharing in the Netherlands are strongly positive in the short and long terms.
• 2009‑03‑02: How many top-level domains are there?
• 2009‑03‑02: Why Microsoft is likely to lose the TomTom case.
• 2009‑03‑02: LightCloud: distributed and persistent key value database, scriptable with Lua.
• 2009‑03‑02: The Fake Digital Britain Report - what it should have said.
• 2009‑03‑01: A capsule history of typesetting.
• 2009‑03‑01: Digital politics is different - preserving the COML discussion.
• 2009‑03‑01: Thousands in scramble for free books after Amazon supplier abandons warehouse.
• 2009‑03‑01: The benefits of stand-up desks in schools.
• 2009‑03‑01: Amish hackers.
• 2009‑03‑01: Microsoft sues TomTom for patent infringement.
• 2009‑03‑01: Parliamentary government matters. Jack Straw's right. (Not 100% convinced.)
• 2009‑03‑01: Calls to action from the Convention on Modern Liberty.
• 2009‑02‑28: Philip Pullman's piece on liberty which was pulled from the Times.
• 2009‑02‑28: Libel chills financial reporting at 'The Guardian'.
• 2009‑02‑28: TraceVis: performance visualization for TraceMonkey.
• 2009‑02‑28: Don't bet on Moore to grow your MySQL deployment.
• 2009‑02‑28: Amazon disables Kindle's speech synthesis feature following demands from Authors' Guild. Screw the partially sighted.
• 2009‑02‑27: Phorm threatens "Which?" with defamation and forces them to withdraw a press release that criticized Phorm.
• 2009‑02‑27: More things that Ryanair are planning to charge extra for?
• 2009‑02‑27: The surprisingly powerful effect of bad apples.
• 2009‑02‑27: YOU are the product that Google is selling.
• 2009‑02‑27: How FriendFeed uses MySQL as a non-relational data store to make changes easier.
• 2009‑02‑27: Beautiful pictures of waves.
• 2009‑02‑27: Magistrates want to keep their freedom to choose sentences.
• 2009‑02‑26: The professor behind "Slumdog Millionaire".
• 2009‑02‑26: The Liberal Democrats' freedom bill.
• 2009‑02‑26: Old Press / Mill Lane plans on the Cambridge City Council web site.
• 2009‑02‑26: Plans to redevelop the Old Press site in Cambridge.
• 2009‑02‑26: A lexicon of obfuscation mitigation.
• 2009‑02‑25: Open source permeates Microsoft - and they admit it.
• 2009‑02‑25: State of the programming languages book market 2008.
• 2009‑02‑25: UK government abandons evidence-based policy on copyright.
• 2009‑02‑25: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll quote Jamie Zawinski." Now they have two problems.
• 2009‑02‑25: You know digital is mainstream when the cool kids start putting compression artefacts into their videos for deliberate effect.
• 2009‑02‑25: The London Borough of Redbridge has a nice cannabis leaf logo (or so it seems at the first glance).
• 2009‑02‑25: When programming, start with the most difficult part (then get bored during the death-march completion stage).
• 2009‑02‑25: Photographs of London around 1880 - many mediaeval buildings.
• 2009‑02‑25: Paul Vixie says how the world will be better with DNSSEC.
• 2009‑02‑25: YesWeScan: Carl Malamud for Public Printer of the United States.
• 2009‑02‑25: Numbers everyone should know / scaling shared counters / paging through comments.
• 2009‑02‑24: The Squirrel programming language - another embeddable extension language.
• 2009‑02‑24: Misunderestimating open science.
• 2009‑02‑24: 12 tips for building and scaling a Ruby on Rails site.
• 2009‑02‑24: UK government action plan for open source, open standards, and re-use.
• 2009‑02‑24: Your grammar is worse than Hitler's.
• 2009‑02‑24: Video of a disk's zero-G sensor parking the heads when dropped.
• 2009‑02‑24: Andrews & Arnold against UK ISP censorship.
• 2009‑02‑24: Controlling academic IP harms research - NIH enforced openness improves it.
• 2009‑02‑24: The formula that killed Wall Street.
• 2009‑02‑24: A map of where books are set in London.
• 2009‑02‑24: 50 publicity stunts.
• 2009‑02‑23: Giving a presentation when the audience has an online back-channel.
• 2009‑02‑23: Ruben's tube - audio visualization with fire.
• 2009‑02‑23: Hacking Kindle.
• 2009‑02‑23: Really nice visualization of contributions to OpenStreetMap in 2008.
• 2009‑02‑23: Ex-director of public prosecutions says "good politics doesn't always make good policy" and that new laws have failed to make us safer and undermined trust that justice will be done (especially to bankers).
• 2009‑02‑23: David Blunkett, who introduced the idea of identity cards when Home Secretary, worries that Britain is becoming a "Big Brother" state. Oh well, better late than never.
• 2009‑02‑23: Typography affects how readers understand a text: easy to read implies easy to do.
• 2009‑02‑23: Implementation errors (buffer overflows, null dereferences, etc.) in NIST SHA competition entries.
• 2009‑02‑23: How Amazon is growing 20% faster than the rest of the e-commerce sector.
• 2009‑02‑22: The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna.
• 2009‑02‑22: Leaked letter reveals recording industry's copyright stance on NZ guilty-on-accusation law.
• 2009‑02‑22: Landshare: turning unloved gardens into allotments.
• 2009‑02‑22: Tweetminster: MPs who tweet.
• 2009‑02‑22: JWZ needs help to stop the California government putting him out of business.
• 2009‑02‑22: DEFRA drops plans to fix crumbling Pirbright laboratory for animal health.
• 2009‑02‑22: Everyone loves Google, until it's too big.
• 2009‑02‑21: Aligning Linux filesystems with SSD erase blocks.
• 2009‑02‑21: Legal precedent supporting Ben Goldacre against LBC's attempt to use copyright law to hide Jeni Barnett's idiocy.
• 2009‑02‑21: Ten American law schools call for law journals to ditch print and switch to open access online.
• 2009‑02‑21: Aardman meets Itchy and Scratchy.
• 2009‑02‑21: Nigerian pretends to be National Bank of Ethiopia in order to swindle CitiBank. Sounds like a Charlie Stross plot...
• 2009‑02‑21: An interview with Guy Garcia, author of "The Decline of Men".
• 2009‑02‑21: Bio-Synergy Skinny Water: low-calorie water fortified with poisonous chromium, for sale from Holland and Barrett. Boggle.
• 2009‑02‑21: ArRSe - Army rumour service.
• 2009‑02‑21: PPRuNe - Professional pilots rumour network.
• 2009‑02‑21: Ben Goldacre is top Google result for "willies".
• 2009‑02‑21: Cory Doctorow explains how the Internet will devour, transform, or destroy your favorite medium.
• 2009‑02‑21: After debugging, European emissions trading scheme starts to work.
• 2009‑02‑20: Vx32: portable, efficient, safe execution of untrusted x86 code.
• 2009‑02‑20: 13 funny software development quotes.
• 2009‑02‑20: The Register on the Busy Bees childcare voucher security failure.
• 2009‑02‑20: Impressive: presentation software that displays PDFs nicely, e.g. LaTeX \documentclass{beamer} slides.
• 2009‑02‑20: Why we immunize.
• 2009‑02‑20: The convention on modern liberty - Cambridge satellite event.
• 2009‑02‑20: The case of the 500 mile email.
• 2009‑02‑20: Weird consequence of dwimmery in perl's regex parser.
• 2009‑02‑20: Java logging libraries fighting with each other.
• 2009‑02‑20: Renesys detects BGP-based man-in-the-middle attacks,and finds none so far.
• 2009‑02‑20: Charles Arthur summarizes Aric Signan's social networking cancer paper.
• 2009‑02‑19: The actual paper by Aric Sigman published in the Biologist.
• 2009‑02‑19: The Stanford marshmallow experiment.
• 2009‑02‑19: C APIs in extension and extensible languages.
• 2009‑02‑19: UK polling report - independent political survey news.
• 2009‑02‑19: Law firm "Jones Day" in the stupidest trademark lawsuit ever.
• 2009‑02‑19: Oh dear, "science" by press release, and a bee in the bonnet about TV and computers.
• 2009‑02‑19: On the other hand the Daily Mail is still bonkers about the internet and cancer.
• 2009‑02‑19: Blimey, has the Daily Mail finally come to its senses about MMR?
• 2009‑02‑19: Exploring Lua for concurrent programming.
• 2009‑02‑19: Irish police confused by a bad Polish driver seemingly named Prawo Jazdy.
• 2009‑02‑19: Joyent discovers the good bits of Javascript.
• 2009‑02‑19: What colour are your bits?
• 2009‑02‑19: The intertwining of peak oil and climate change.
• 2009‑02‑18: A dangerous libel decision in the US: truth no longer a defence?
• 2009‑02‑18: How to avoid a terms-of-service disaster like Facebook's.
• 2009‑02‑18: Babies with more gestures become toddlers with bigger vocabs - an early correlation between wealth and achievement.
• 2009‑02‑18: Intel X25-M SSDs have horrible fragmentation problems.
• 2009‑02‑18: Scope-aware values for Lua.
• 2009‑02‑18: Exploiting WiFi to make mesh networks and spread malware from house to house.
• 2009‑02‑18: Unlike the iPhone, Android will span the range from phones to netbooks.
• 2009‑02‑18: Tufte's presentation tips.
• 2009‑02‑17: Free Culture vs. Fear Culture vs. Fee Culture.
• 2009‑02‑17: Open source medical imaging software for planning aortic stent graft surgery.
• 2009‑02‑17: Economists agree that action on climate change is cheaper than inaction.
• 2009‑02‑17: Unusual signs of independent thought from the BCS.
• 2009‑02‑17: Relenta's rather high prices.
• 2009‑02‑17: Switching from GMail to Relenta (cautiously).
• 2009‑02‑17: The (ir)rationality of mobile spending.
• 2009‑02‑17: 192 to 118: UK directory enquiries deregulation and the failure of choice.
• 2009‑02‑17: Violent video games are a good way of letting boys be boys.
• 2009‑02‑17: A water jetpack.
• 2009‑02‑17: The courts are in many cases unable to discover what the law is, or was at the date with which the court is concerned.
• 2009‑02‑17: It is a problem of substantial constitutional importance when relevant legislation is not accessible.
• 2009‑02‑17: Answering technical questions helpfully.
• 2009‑02‑17: Depression? Deflation? "D-process", says Dalio.
• 2009‑02‑17: Inside Steve's Brain.
• 2009‑02‑17: Ten ways to battle web site bureaucracy in a large organization.
• 2009‑02‑17: Problems with Lua's module() function.
• 2009‑02‑17: Greenwich's explanation for the zero longitude of WGS84 not matching the Airey transit instrument.
• 2009‑02‑17: Transactions across datacentres.
• 2009‑02‑17: Stella Rimington speaks out against government terrorization laws.
• 2009‑02‑17: Pricing iPhone apps.
• 2009‑02‑16: Dennis Richie's HOPL II talk - tangential to his paper on the history of C.
• 2009‑02‑16: 1st Edition Unix manual.
• 2009‑02‑16: Government will use BT to monitor customers of small ISPs.
• 2009‑02‑16: And then they came for the airline pilots...
• 2009‑02‑16: Metropolitan Police Federation speaks out against photographer terrorization law.
• 2009‑02‑16: Picking apart some lobbying against the Tories' open standards / open procurement / open source policy.
• 2009‑02‑16: Did you remember to test ... ?
• 2009‑02‑16: The bee die-off is due to a combination of factors.
• 2009‑02‑16: Commoditisation vs commodification.
• 2009‑02‑16: The UK government's official offshore torture policy.
• 2009‑02‑16: Nationalize the banks! We're all Swedes now.
• 2009‑02‑16: Dmitry Orlov's best practices for coping with financial and social collapse.
• 2009‑02‑16: Clifford Stoll talking at TED.
• 2009‑02‑16: DateJS - Javascript time/date library.
• 2009‑02‑15: How the crash will/should reshape America.
• 2009‑02‑15: How patent trolls are a tax on innovation - including some good ideas on patent reform.
• 2009‑02‑15: Become an autistic savant for a few minutes using transcranial magnetic stimulation.
• 2009‑02‑14: Honda FCX Clarity: 4x less efficient than the Tesla Roadster.
• 2009‑02‑14: Lennart Augustsson implements BASIC as an embedded language within Haskell !!!
• 2009‑02‑14: GlaxoSmithKline changes direction and heads for the moral high ground.
• 2009‑02‑14: Barack Obama is tired of your motherfucking shit.
• 2009‑02‑13: Sub-editors are "a layer that can be eliminated", journalism lecturer and media commentator Roy Greenslade has told a publishing industry conference.
• 2009‑02‑13: Postbox - graphical MUA for Windows and Macintosh.
• 2009‑02‑13: PETA kills animals.
• 2009‑02‑12: Harvard slashes investment jobs after its endowment plummets in value.
• 2009‑02‑12: China's water woes.
• 2009‑02‑12: Busy Bees childcare voucher service taken offline after horrible security hole found.
• 2009‑02‑12: Measels outbreak amongst traditionalist religious communities in France (very low vaccine coverage) spreading to wider population.
• 2009‑02‑12: The Sun publishes a pro-MMR story.
• 2009‑02‑12: Copying in patent law: almost all patent infringement cases are against independent inventors and do not involve copying.
• 2009‑02‑12: iRetroPhone.
• 2009‑02‑12: Continuous deployment at IMVU: doing the impossible fifty times a day.
• 2009‑02‑12: 25 things about Linus.
• 2009‑02‑12: White eye (instead of red eye) in a photo is a sign of retinoblastoma (eye cancer).
• 2009‑02‑12: Email Effects - visual tool for creating ASCII art.
• 2009‑02‑12: Guide to hopeless state of CSS support in email clients.
• 2009‑02‑12: World's largest vacuum chamber - awesome!
• 2009‑02‑12: Which browsers support the latest HTML and CSS features?
• 2009‑02‑12: Two communication satellites collide over Siberia at 25,000mph.
• 2009‑02‑11: Americans don't get BS 1363.
• 2009‑02‑11: picoLua - Lua on a PIC.
• 2009‑02‑11: Reverse graffiti.
• 2009‑02‑11: Allan Brigham in the Guardian.
• 2009‑02‑11: Allan Brigham's walking tours of Cambridge for locals.
• 2009‑02‑11: Cambridge University to give honorary degrees to Allan Brigham (local tour guide and street cleaner) plus Bill and Melinda Gates - and others.
• 2009‑02‑11: Early day motion 754 on MMR and the media.
• 2009‑02‑11: Pruning reverse DNS zones.
• 2009‑02‑11: The learner-driver problem - variance and accident statistics.
• 2009‑02‑10: Kindle text-to-speech feature triggers copyright insanity.
• 2009‑02‑10: External university governors are proving to be a bad idea.
• 2009‑02‑10: Landmark settlement makes U.S. agencies acknowledge climate change.
• 2009‑02‑10: Could an iTunes-alike save the publishing industry?
• 2009‑02‑10: Free the Postcode!
• 2009‑02‑10: A graduate school survival guide: "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D!"
• 2009‑02‑10: Red Dwarf 2009 FAQ.
• 2009‑02‑10: "The preposterous prejudice of the anti-MMR lobby" - more support for Ben Goldacre from the Times.
• 2009‑02‑10: This is what I think of whenever I see one of the new Pepsi ads.
• 2009‑02‑10: The "FDR failed" myth.
• 2009‑02‑10: One free interaction - a prospective user interface design pattern.
• 2009‑02‑09: Philosophical problems with folksonomies.
• 2009‑02‑09: Secularists of the year: Evan Harris MP and Lord Avebury.
• 2009‑02‑09: Motoring down, cycling up.
• 2009‑02‑09: Transactional Flash SSDs.
• 2009‑02‑09: Inside the 2,000 watt society.
• 2009‑02‑09: The problem with email clients.
• 2009‑02‑08: How willing are scientists to give up their cherished theories in the light of new evidence?
• 2009‑02‑08: More security wrong-headedness from Microsoft: they think UAC isn't broken and that users are just too stupid to understand it.
• 2009‑02‑08: Andrew Wakefield rigged the data for his 1998 MMR/autism paper.
• 2009‑02‑08: The yin and yang of acting Academy Awards.
• 2009‑02‑08: "The Prisoner" - the complete series available to watch online.
• 2009‑02‑08: Using chaos theory to revitalize fisheries.
• 2009‑02‑08: Worrying about Bolivia having half the world's lithium supplies.
• 2009‑02‑08: Phishing for free software.
• 2009‑02‑08: Cover letters from hell.
• 2009‑02‑08: Is the cloud the new subprime mortgage?
• 2009‑02‑07: The trough of no value.
• 2009‑02‑07: Where the recent snow came from.
• 2009‑02‑07: Intellectual Ventures backs study on patent troll litigation.
• 2009‑02‑07: Low-end Windows 7 restrictions will bolster Linux netbooks.
• 2009‑02‑07: The difference between FREE and 1 cent?
• 2009‑02‑06: 83% of spammed domains supported by only 10 registrars.
• 2009‑02‑06: 50 years of scientific discovery and sharing in Antarctica may end thanks to patent greed.
• 2009‑02‑06: "Encouraging" breastfeeding.
• 2009‑02‑06: Where Unix went wrong in filesystem access control.
• 2009‑02‑06: When a community gets too big and starts suffering from the tragedy of the commons, reboot it.
• 2009‑02‑06: Google China has the domain g.cn.
• 2009‑02‑06: Forrester's CEO is not panicing about 2009, at least where tech is concerned.
• 2009‑02‑06: Chudge, nowtrage and plebbledash - just three of the words to learn from Charlie Brooker's New Media Dictionary.
• 2009‑02‑06: Ben Goldacre receives legal threats from LBC Radio over Jeni Barnett's MMR scaremongering.
• 2009‑02‑05: Bogglesome security bug in Java's date handling code.
• 2009‑02‑05: Dear Internet, stop it. stop it now.
• 2009‑02‑05: Make love not porn - porn world vs. real world.
• 2009‑02‑05: New logos after the financial crisis.
• 2009‑02‑05: Problems with patents and fine-grained property rights in general.
• 2009‑02‑05: Engineering Windows 7 security by admonishment.
• 2009‑02‑05: Orkut is insecure and Google are bad at dealing with compromised accounts.
• 2009‑02‑04: Deer and cattle prefer to face north.
• 2009‑02‑04: Web hooks: event notification callbacks over HTTP.
• 2009‑02‑03: Rabin fingerprinting code.
• 2009‑02‑03: Unfolding the Earth: myriahedral projections.
• 2009‑02‑03: Safe threading for Python, without the global interpreter lock.
• 2009‑02‑03: How to make Firefox use Unix key bindings on Unix.
• 2009‑02‑03: Firefox "open in browser" extension.
• 2009‑02‑03: Universities! Spam your users and MAKE MONEY FAST!!
• 2009‑02‑03: Jeff Darcy argues with Biran Cantrill.
• 2009‑02‑03: Brian Cantrill says the NFS benchmark SPEC SFS is crap.
• 2009‑02‑03: How Google crawls through web forms.
• 2009‑02‑02: Microsoft's supposedly "immutable" law of security #1 is not true on a system which has proper sandboxing and follows the principle of least privilege (e.g. a capability-based system).
• 2009‑02‑02: Practical filesystem design with the BeOS filesystem.
• 2009‑02‑02: If English were written like Chinese.
• 2009‑02‑02: Why openness and licensing of data matters.
• 2009‑02‑02: Transport Chaos - current state "pandemonium"!
• 2009‑02‑02: Great programming quotes from Stack Overflow.
• 2009‑02‑02: Derivatives of regular expressions.
• 2009‑02‑01: Linux graphics drivers for the Vaio P series are a total mess.
• 2009‑02‑01: Only (?) one million SSL web sites - about 0.5% of the total.
• 2009‑02‑01: Heavy metal laundry tips.
• 2009‑02‑01: Interesting thread on cap-talk about the "ACLs don't" paper.
• 2009‑02‑01: Jumbograms on Internet2.
• 2009‑02‑01: Colm MacCárthaigh reacts to Cory Doctorow's post about working with interruptions, and explains how he gives himself a starting point each day.
• 2009‑01‑31: UK pedestrian casualties by type of colliding vehicle for the last 10 years.
• 2009‑01‑31: Ross Anderson on the history of Cambridge iconoclasts.
• 2009‑01‑31: Google explains the badware alert screwup.
• 2009‑01‑31: The story of Henrietta Lacks and human cell lines.
• 2009‑01‑31: George Soros on the consequences of the Lehman Brothers collapse.
• 2009‑01‑31: Vanity Fair's oral history of the GWB administration.
• 2009‑01‑31: Improving Aphrodite.
• 2009‑01‑31: Kevin Kelly on the two strands of connectionism - where are the mobiles?
• 2009‑01‑31: The case against credentialism.
• 2009‑01‑30: Dashing Tweeds.
• 2009‑01‑30: Less hashing, same performance - you only need two hash functions for any size of Bloom filter.
• 2009‑01‑30: An unusual approach to log parsing.
• 2009‑01‑30: Bruce Sterling panics about 2009.
• 2009‑01‑30: Google street view includes pictures from one of the cars as it runs over a deer!
• 2009‑01‑30: CNET compares Intellectual Ventures with the University of California.
• 2009‑01‑30: Fortune Magazine on Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures.
• 2009‑01‑30: Transmeta's valuable patent portfolio bought by patent troll Intellectual Ventures.
• 2009‑01‑30: EU still trying to make ISPs enforce copyright law.
• 2009‑01‑30: Green (energy efficiency) arguments against proof-of-work (which is a foolish idea that inexplicably refuses to die).
• 2009‑01‑30: So you can power your data centre using failing SQL servers, or something?
• 2009‑01‑30: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 will explode your data.
• 2009‑01‑30: Let's all grow up.
• 2009‑01‑29: How to do DAB properly.
• 2009‑01‑29: A single line of code filled with EPIC FAIL.
• 2009‑01‑29: ACLs don't.
• 2009‑01‑29: A Scheme to syntax-rules compiler.
• 2009‑01‑28: WHO surgical safety checklist.
• 2009‑01‑28: Ofcom issues blacklist of UK telephone scammers.
• 2009‑01‑28: The Daily Quail: coffee gives your children cancer.
• 2009‑01‑28: Taming perfectionism.
• 2009‑01‑27: James W. Taylor - time series forecasting, estimation of uncertainty, and exponential smoothing.
• 2009‑01‑27: How to calculate the standard deviation incrementally, including a useful pointer to Knuth.
• 2009‑01‑27: Simpsons sofa gags.
• 2009‑01‑27: Which tech firms have the healthiest bank balances.
• 2009‑01‑27: Solve the failure first.
• 2009‑01‑27: Cory Doctorow on writing without being distracted.
• 2009‑01‑26: Holt-Winters forecasting (triple exponential smoothing with a multiplicative seasonal component).
• 2009‑01‑26: The year in spam according to Google.
• 2009‑01‑26: Lib Dems call for support from sysadmins and open source developers.
• 2009‑01‑26: A profitless endeavor: phishing as tragedy of the commons.
• 2009‑01‑26: Rules for photographers on UK national rail and the London Underground.
• 2009‑01‑26: A guide to the rights of photographers in the UK.
• 2009‑01‑26: IT's a man's world?
• 2009‑01‑26: A long-lost text by Archimedes shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus.
• 2009‑01‑26: The car of the future should arrive in October.
• 2009‑01‑26: Holt-Winters forecasting applied to Poisson processes in real time.
• 2009‑01‑26: Aberrant behavior detection in time series for network service monitoring - Holt-Winters forecasting for RRDtool.
• 2009‑01‑25: Google and the future of books.
• 2009‑01‑23: How to foil phishing scams.
• 2009‑01‑23: Blacklist Alert DNSBL checker.
• 2009‑01‑23: 64GB DRAM SATA SSD.
• 2009‑01‑23: Surveillance and profiling of "terrorist" black and asian music in London clubs.
• 2009‑01‑23: What is Occam's Razor?
• 2009‑01‑23: Steve Yegge's emacs tips: old news, except I didn't know about iswitchb-mode.
• 2009‑01‑23: BBC refuses to broadcast an appeal for aid to Gaza by the Disasters Emergency Committee.
• 2009‑01‑23: Craig Murray: "I cannot tell you how much emotion I feel that the US will no longer be flying people to Uzbekistan, to be tortured and often buried there. I lost my livelihood trying to stop it."
• 2009‑01‑23: The LEGO digital box uses augmented reality to demonstrate what completed models look like.
• 2009‑01‑23: Monty Python YouTube channel increases DVD sales by 23000%.
• 2009‑01‑23: US IP attachés take hard-line position on overseas IP enforcement.
• 2009‑01‑23: Tracing the peopling of the Pacific - bacterial genetics and linguistics agree.
• 2009‑01‑23: Blackberry to support Open Document Format.
• 2009‑01‑23: Will the public domain continue to lose out to the copyright expansionists under Obama?
• 2009‑01‑23: No2ID's page about the government's plans to eliminate data protection partitions in Whitehall.
• 2009‑01‑23: Counter-terrorism act 2008 to come into force next month. Depressing assault on our ability to hold the police to account.
• 2009‑01‑23: Dyson Medic - repair and servicing guides.
• 2009‑01‑23: The origin of the Labradoodle.
• 2009‑01‑23: Comscore's estimate of the Internet population passes a billion.
• 2009‑01‑23: Planes vs trains in the US.
• 2009‑01‑23: Similarities between the US economy 80 years ago and China's now.
• 2009‑01‑22: Bloodhound SSC - the second supersonic car targets 1000 mph.
• 2009‑01‑22: Colbert on remixing.
• 2009‑01‑22: Obama inauguration traffic data from Arbor Networks.
• 2009‑01‑22: The Guardian's civil liberties page.
• 2009‑01‑22: Google calls for a right to fair use of copyright works in the UK.
• 2009‑01‑22: The Dell cost of Windows.
• 2009‑01‑22: RIAA agnostic about DRM.
• 2009‑01‑22: Microsoft to make 5000 staff redundant.
• 2009‑01‑22: USPTO rejects all claims of the subdomain virtual web hosting patent.
• 2009‑01‑22: The Guardian on how the OCLC is keeping library catalogues closed and proprietary.
• 2009‑01‑22: How to approach an interview with a journalist (aimed at managers of techie startups).
• 2009‑01‑22: USPTO guts the Amazon one-click patent.
• 2009‑01‑22: Obama's staff find the White House in the technological dark ages.
• 2009‑01‑22: Al Gore's Mac.
• 2009‑01‑22: Akamai reports record traffic volumes during Obama's inauguration.
• 2009‑01‑22: Shut up.
• 2009‑01‑22: Popularity of version control software amongst Debian developers.
• 2009‑01‑21: Brian Kernighan on 34 years of Software Tools.
• 2009‑01‑21: Government U-turn on concealing MP's expenses.
• 2009‑01‑21: Whitehouse.com transformed from porn site to political news site.
• 2009‑01‑20: Polaroid film is no longer being made but some people are trying to resurrect it.
• 2009‑01‑20: In the news eight years ago this week.
• 2009‑01‑20: Bush forced to repeat a term after failing the end-of-year exams.
• 2009‑01‑20: George Monbiot on coping with financial crises by creating ad-hoc currencies.
• 2009‑01‑20: Implementing VisiCalc on the Apple ][.
• 2009‑01‑20: An evaluation of distributed key/value data stores.
• 2009‑01‑20: Visible CCD scan effects from the iPhone camera.
• 2009‑01‑19: The movement to reform healthcare has begun with stories about cruelty.
• 2009‑01‑19: C.A.R. Hoare's billion dollar mistake.
• 2009‑01‑19: ScavengerEXA - traffic analysis for outgoing email.
• 2009‑01‑19: The holographic universe.
• 2009‑01‑19: Suburbs are the next slums?
• 2009‑01‑19: TheyWorkForYou campaigning to keep MPs accountable.
• 2009‑01‑19: Why Google employees quit.
• 2009‑01‑19: How F-Secure counted 9,000,000 Downadup infections - I wonder if the count from the virus includes re-infections.
• 2009‑01‑19: NY Times on digital radio in Europe and elsewhere.
• 2009‑01‑19: Chris Wysopal on the need to take "theoretical" security vulnerabilities seriously.
• 2009‑01‑18: Tim Bray on the need for a decentralized Twitter.
• 2009‑01‑18: Python docutils, including "reStructured Text" lightweight markup.
• 2009‑01‑18: Building traffic on a gaming site.
• 2009‑01‑18: SO_LINGER and unreliable TCP shutdowns.
• 2009‑01‑18: Handmade fonts.
• 2009‑01‑18: William Gibson's blog.
• 2009‑01‑18: Mappa Mundi magazine.
• 2009‑01‑18: Why I _do_ document and unit test.
• 2009‑01‑18: Why I don't document or unit test.
• 2009‑01‑17: Superuseless superpowers.
• 2009‑01‑17: The massive yet tiny engine.
• 2009‑01‑17: Tenants' rights for online services.
• 2009‑01‑17: The tourist's quide to Cambridge.
• 2009‑01‑17: Customer update for the Tesla high performance electric car.
• 2009‑01‑16: Continued fractions and intercalation.
• 2009‑01‑16: Craig Murray self-publishing success.
• 2009‑01‑16: A chart of SI units and their dimensions.
• 2009‑01‑16: LibraryThing on the OCLC policy change.
• 2009‑01‑16: OCLC delays its attempt to take proprietary control of library catalogue records.
• 2009‑01‑16: JISC developer happiness days.
• 2009‑01‑16: Stuart Cheshire looks forward to connector unification.
• 2009‑01‑16: MySpace to add webmail to their service.
• 2009‑01‑16: Neat solution to the problem of ethernet ports being too fat: put them behind the display hinge.
• 2009‑01‑16: Project your own bike lane.
• 2009‑01‑16: DRAM access timings on NUMA.
• 2009‑01‑16: IT departments should not fear the multicore future.
• 2009‑01‑16: The financial modellers' manifesto.
• 2009‑01‑16: Bush official admits torture occurred in Guantanamo Bay.
• 2009‑01‑16: The story behind the interview with the adware author - a reminder of how evil his employer was.
• 2009‑01‑16: An interview with James Howard Kunstler: urban planning, peak oil, and environmental change.
• 2009‑01‑16: Taxing financial transactions to put a brake on high-volume speculation.
• 2009‑01‑15: Odd eggs.
• 2009‑01‑15: Nude self portraits are popular amongst teens but very illegal.
• 2009‑01‑15: TLS extension IPR nightmare.
• 2009‑01‑15: Celebrity aptronyms.
• 2009‑01‑15: The $300 million button.
• 2009‑01‑14: Steve Jobs takes leave of absence for medical reasons.
• 2009‑01‑14: Secure PDAs for Barack Obama.
• 2009‑01‑14: Home chip fab.
• 2009‑01‑14: Craig Murray releases "The Catholic Orangemen of Togo" online for free.
• 2009‑01‑14: Bonkers gcc i18n braindamage.
• 2009‑01‑14: New Scientist's guide to common myths and misconceptions about climate change.
• 2009‑01‑14: Failure: the secret to success.
• 2009‑01‑14: Dave Cridland explains how to make TLS compression work with OpenSSL.
• 2009‑01‑14: Interview with an adware author.
• 2009‑01‑14: Work on stuff that matters.
• 2009‑01‑14: Building modules (such as lpeg) for Lua, including the special "-bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup" runes required for Mac OS X.
• 2009‑01‑13: Problems with AGAs.
• 2009‑01‑13: Rich people are the main users of cheap flights and the main beneficiaries of airport expansions.
• 2009‑01‑13: A conversation with Alan Kay.
• 2009‑01‑13: Why (American) "Pyrex" bowls explode.
• 2009‑01‑13: The top 25 most dangerous security bugs.
• 2009‑01‑13: Chromatic interviews Guido van Rossum about the evolution of Python 3.
• 2009‑01‑13: Differential synchronization.
• 2009‑01‑13: PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE ME FROM THIS LIST!
• 2009‑01‑13: Score for a hole in the ground - interesting woodland acoustic art installation.
• 2009‑01‑13: Princess Bride 20th anniversary DVD - a very nice ambigram.
• 2009‑01‑13: SurLaLune annotated fairy tales.
• 2009‑01‑13: A VC asks, what if your economic model is wrong?
• 2009‑01‑13: Richard Dawkins is a Church of England atheist.
• 2009‑01‑13: David MacKay does his own calculations on the energy usage of Google and kettles.
• 2009‑01‑13: More numbers from Google on the kettle argument.
• 2009‑01‑13: The Register recommends setting fire to farts to reduce methane emissions.
• 2009‑01‑13: Google say they use less energy to serve a search result than the client does while waiting for it.
• 2009‑01‑13: Dodgy estimate that two Google searches use as much energy as boiling a kettle.
• 2009‑01‑13: iPhone web browser emulator.
• 2009‑01‑13: Web cookie parsing standards failure.
• 2009‑01‑13: A rant about the book shop business.
• 2009‑01‑13: Multi-touch works on the Android G1, with some limitations.
• 2009‑01‑13: "Going out of business" sales are not always a bargain.
• 2009‑01‑13: Wellcome Trust to audit compliance to their requirement for open-access publication.
• 2009‑01‑13: A warning about the real cost of microformats.
• 2009‑01‑13: David Malone's recordings of the leap second.
• 2009‑01‑13: Ukelele: Mac OS X keyboard layout editor.
• 2009‑01‑13: Studying Islam made me an atheist.
• 2009‑01‑13: Andrew Pelling MP pleased to be stopped and searched by police for taking photographs.
• 2009‑01‑13: Status of the StyleTap PalmOS emulator for iPhone.
• 2009‑01‑13: Ways of wearing a Buff.
• 2009‑01‑13: The Recently Deflowered Girl: the right thing to say on every dubious occasion.
• 2009‑01‑13: Keyboard Maestro - key macros for the Mac.
• 2009‑01‑13: Hacking # on Mac keyboards.
• 2009‑01‑13: Sendfile support for Erlang and YAWS.
• 2009‑01‑13: An overview of the context of the Israel/Palestine war.
• 2009‑01‑13: Withdrawal from heroin is a trivial matter.
• 2009‑01‑13: Some dubious stats on the popularity of web buzzwords - I would guess peak search rates are correlated with unfamiliarity not popularity.
• 2009‑01‑13: In what order should you teach a process to someone?
• 2009‑01‑13: Google IPv6 support.
• 2009‑01‑13: The CSS pixel.
• 2009‑01‑13: Russian nuclear-powered lighthouses.
• 2009‑01‑13: The cast of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, twenty years on.
• 2009‑01‑13: Rate-limiting with memcached.
• 2009‑01‑06: Kaspersky says covert police surveillance software would be treated as crimeware by AV software.
• 2009‑01‑06: Apple introduces revolutionary laptop with no keyboard.
• 2009‑01‑06: Parallel bzip2.
• 2009‑01‑06: Murdered by the BART police.
• 2009‑01‑05: Travel time to major cities: a global map of accessibility.
• 2009‑01‑05: Radio signals during the leap second.
• 2009‑01‑05: Oracle RAC leap second bug.
• 2009‑01‑04: Disk latency and vibration.
• 2009‑01‑01: Open source programing for kids.