Whaa? NOTE: Mepps is only interested in recycling tails taken from squirrels that have been harvested for the table. Well perhaps it’s time to go squirrel fishing … Apparently, squirrels make good eatin’.
Monthly Archive: June 2005
Jun
30
Jun
28
Ekr on Schneier on Spafford on Credit Card Fraud
[Eric Rescorla][ekr] wrote a [great synopsis][ekr-auth] of the problems facing merchants, banks and consumers around improving the authentication of client problem as it relates to credit-card transactions. In ekr’s summary, he mentions that there are three broad authentication classes (I won’t repeat them here, but it’s work looking at ekr’s original post). One thing that …
Jun
24
Steve Job’s Commencement Address at Stanford
… I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I …
Jun
21
すし vs. H2
Last night I was eating dinner with my wife at our favorite local Sushi restaurant. The owners have run Sushi restaurants for a number of years and even moved from Vancouver (where we first met) to Calgary. They have an outstanding restaurant in Calgary and are really thriving in a market that has only just …
Jun
20
Coffee: Not just for humans anymore.
While reading /dev/null, I came across a rather silly site with one truly hilarious photograph: Which cat ate the coffee beans? To be perfectly honest — I don’t even really like cats all that much. Poor little guy. (Via /dev/null.)
Jun
09
June Newsletter
Our June newsletter is now online. Enjoy! (link)
Jun
08
Flaps — Check, Gear — Check, Legs — Away
CNN reports today that a woman living near Kennedy Airport (NY) discovered some grizzly remains on her lawn. Authorities figure that the parts fell from a South African Airways flight. People really ought to get the word out: * Airliner wheel wells do not have a lot of spare room, if any, and; * Flights …
Jun
06
Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips
A small part of me just died. *sigh* Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips So many other bloggers will write about this until the cows come home. I just sincerely hope that Apple will continue to make stylish designs with the same industrial design excellence and utility for which they are so well …