Schneier on Security: Homeland Security Cost-Benefit Analysis. A very worthwhile read – basically: The premises: The number of potential terrorist targets is essentially infinite. The probability that any individual target will be attacked is essentially zero. If one potential target happens to enjoy a degree of protection, the agile terrorist usually can readily move on… Continue reading The Quixotic Quest for Invulnerability
A New Theme?
In honor of what is now my 1002nd post… I’ve decided to change my theme. What do you think? The old one was very nice (and it matched my office – how geeky is that?) but it didn’t quite properly support Gravatars and was getting a little long in the tooth. This new one should… Continue reading A New Theme?
An Oddity with Cookies and WordPress 2.6
I just upgraded the 3 blogs hosted here on my site to WordPress 2.6, as well as a number of other blogs I maintain for people. In each and every case, after upgrading, I had some trouble getting back to the Admin page – the login page appears and it says “Please log in again”… Continue reading An Oddity with Cookies and WordPress 2.6
1,000th Post!
I just happened to look at my WordPress admin page this morning (after upgrading to WordPress 2.6 – as always, it’s well worth it to upgrade, they’ve got lots of nice new features for this version) and I noticed that my post count was at “999.” Well, now it’s at 1,000 – that’s one thousand… Continue reading 1,000th Post!
Pimping Firefox
I’m a sucker for analogies like this (emphasis mine): 38.16% of the people who visit this site are still using Internet Explorer (IE). It’s like buying a hybrid car for the gas mileage and then driving with flat tires and the doors open. Go on, go read the post – it’s a good one.