Between this whole house-selling/house-buying thing, and the relatively insane week I’ve had at work, I have been neglecting the blog. Let’s catch up on a few things that have popped up in the meantime.
I may have mentioned here before that I enjoyed Farmer’s Riverworld books (for getting me into Burton, among other things), and I [...]
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I generally love when people use the comic form to explain complicated concepts. I generally love cryptography. I have a special place in my heart for stick figures.
So you can imagine how I feel about Jeff Moser’s multi-stage explanation of how AES came about, and how it works.
Everyone should check it out, since there’s not [...]
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While I’m uploading some MP3s for a music post a little later tonight, let’s do the tab closing dance:
Did you see the story about the scientists who unfroze the blob of 120,000 year old life in the Arctic? I can’t do my usual thing of making the news sound like a creepy SF or Lovecraftian [...]
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Let’s see if we can close some of the myriad tabs I’ve opened in the process of trying to catch up with everything that happened in the non-work world while I was off spending time at the Melbourne office:
I’m quite impressed at the 16-year old (from the city where I did my university days) who [...]
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So, a few months back I was thinking about an upcoming trip to Boston. A trip not unlike the one I’m on right now, albeit shorter and without the 9 day, all-day meeting marathon.
Anyway, I was thinking about this trip with particular reference to the USA’s apparent new policy of having border guards copy data [...]
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I spent some time last week at a professional conference. For the most part it was a relatively valuable use of my time, but there were significant portions of time where I was stuck sitting in a room with lots of people while a particularly boring speaker was presenting. I was without a computer–the conference [...]
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Answer, and explanatory story, to follow.
On the off chance that someone comments with the plaintext before I get around to telling the story, I will send them a $20 Amazon gift certificate or something like that.
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Some bookish links:
Have you read Vernor Vinge’s True Names? If you haven’t then “for shame”. According to the Wikipedia entry “It was one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to stories in the cyberpunk genre. Because of this, it is often referenced as a [...]
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