So anyway…

I was sharing with my mother-in-law some of the things I’d gotten for Xmas, and said, “I’ve got it all done except for Greg and Robyn.” She answered, “Well, when you get your brilliant idea of what to get them, let me know, so I can steal it from you.”

I learned something today that I didn’t know (that happens pretty much every day, mind you, but I don’t usually blog about it). Melbourne has an ice hockey team. I had no idea. I did hear that the team is coached by an expat Canadian and most of the players are also expat Canadians, but Continue reading →

There will be lawsuits. (Here’s the first.) Police are getting involved. There’s a Trojan that uses Sony’s rootkit to hide. And today Sony temporarily halted production of CDs protected with this technology.   Sony really overreached this time. I hope they get slapped down hard for it. — (That link is to a blog entry, Continue reading →

Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions Continue reading →

A gorgeous young redhead goes into the doctor’s office and says that she hurts anywhere on her body if she touches herself. “Impossible!” says the doctor. “Show me.” The redhead takes her finger, pushes on her left breast and screams, and then she pushes her elbow and screams in even more agony. She pushes her Continue reading →

Armed with clipboards, pencils and matching “I LOVE NY” shirts, a team of surveyors recently set up shop in New York’s Central Park on behalf of RSA Security to find out how much personal information consumers would give up while participating in a survey supposedly about tourism in the city. [...] The RSA Security Life Continue reading →