Monthly Archives: February 2003

Yahoo! Top Stories – College Offers Degree In Stripping – via DodgeyBastards.com

Counterpane: Crypto-Gram: February 15, 2003 — apparently it’ll be caught by Spam Assassin so it gets mentioned on /.
Anyway, looks like a good read, the first article is about security through obscurity in the locksmith industry!

War hero thwarted Nazi atomic bomb plans

Norwegian-born Einar Skinnarland, who 60 years ago this month helped turn the tide of the Second World War by thwarting Nazi plans to build an atomic bomb, has died at the age of 84.

Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time – wow!

Cannot find Weapons of Mass Destruction

The weapons you are looking for are currently unavailable. The country might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your weapons inspectors mandate.

Shirky: In Praise of Evolvable Systems

Why something as poorly designed as the Web became The Next Big Thing, and what that means for the future.

Mark talks about Bob, or Sun and Sony and everything Cringely discussed in his latest article. Good reading.

Russell Beattie – Thoughts on Open Sourcing Your Code: The OSS Prototype License. Or why can’t I release code and not support it when I get bored of it.
I have to admit I’m guilty of this. My install-sendmail script configures Sendmail and Fetchmail but about once a month I get an email asking for help. I’m ashamed to say I haven’t responded to any mail about that project in several months. Even the glowing mails that thanked me went unanswered. Rest assured, install-sendmail still works fine with the newest releases of Sendmail, although I really should look into the hosts.deny and hosts.allow integration. I guess most of the people who use my script don’t have anything in /etc/hosts.deny..

Note to self: I must not eat any more of those delicious chocolates Martina got me. *sigh*