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Category: tech
"Learn more" is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more: SOPA and PIPA are just indicators of a much broader problem. We are already seeing big media calling us names. In many jurisdictions around the world, we're seeing the development of legislation that prioritizes overly-broad...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:52 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: tech
I've just tried to turn on registration, to deal with spam. It is probably doomed. Please try to leave a comment on this post letting me know how it worked. If it just totally f*cks up, then email me (wmconnolley...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:16 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: politics
There is an excellent article from Light Blue Touchpaper about securing information (just in case you don't get the delicate joke: Cambridge's colour is light blue, as opposed to Oxford's true blue; and of course "light the blue touch paper"...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:59 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: tech
ScienceBlogs say they've upgraded their Rackspace package in a hyper-whizzy way, which is supposed to have fixed all the problems with IP blocking. If you're still having trouble, err, and can't read this message, err... ahem, or perhaps you have...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: tech
Or, more oddities in the Cyberwar stakes. I can't help thinking that the cyberwar stuff, much like conventional terrorism, is vastly overblown as a threat to national security, or indeed anything. A case in point is the normally very sensible...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:13 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Nick Barnes has an excellent opinion piece in Nature. And the comments are good too. There is a comment-on-the-piece by Anthony Fejes which I think is less good: too much like the kind of people who put you off cycling...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:30 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fun
I have a funky new watch, a Garmin Forerunner 110. It lets me do kewl stuff like: although you only get that after post-processing, of course. In fact I haven't even worked out how to make it work like a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:39 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
More boring links blogs stuff. But just for once I do actually have something else to say, so I'll try to clear this out asap. * Do you need context to understand the CRU emails? Or can they be understood...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:26 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: bluetooth
Google has signed me up to their "buzz", which seems to be like facebook but with fewer people and no silly games. This link might work, or it might not. Who knows. Is it any use? I don't know. Which...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:52 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: tech
A small excerpt from the true horror at The C Programming Language Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft: Exercise 4-13. Write a function reverse(s) which reverses the string s by turning the mind inside out,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:11 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
