Echo chambering here, but for anyone not reading Bruce Schneier regularly, he recently linked to a paper by Daniel Bernstein (djb) about lessons learned from ten years of qmail. You can download it here(pdf). It’s an excellent read. Background: qmail … Continue reading
Oh yes, and the, let’s call them ‘blogskyists’, have got all pouty about what they call “bloggertarians’ – libertarian bloggers. Quite right too. What they perhaps unconsciously realise is that the usurped terrain of social justice is slipping beyond the … Continue reading
Nice site redesign, and it’s fine to be proud of using Joomla. But change the favicon, chaps.
The funniest development while I’ve been quiet has been the launch of a new website called Liberal Conspiracy. The word ‘conspiracy’ used ironically like that is at least as witty as it was when the first thousand right wing bloggers … Continue reading
Sorry for the absence. Someone was kind enough to mention the much lamented Drinking From Home in a comment and express a hope I hadn’t similarly vanished. I haven’t. Not that it would have been a loss like that of … Continue reading
This originates from a crime prevention officer in Lancashire, so probably isn’t a scam about scams. Warning 1: If you receive a phone call on your mobile from any person, saying that he or she is a company engineer, or … Continue reading
You know you’re busy when you start work on a Sunday morning and keep going until 4:00am the next morning. I really don’t have time to focus on this, unpaid, blogging for the moment, probably for about a week. It’s … Continue reading
I was getting sidetracked. What began as a detailed explanation of the iniquity of monarchy started to move onto ground I find more interesting – how the radical political tradition was hijacked and perverted by the socialist left. In fact, … Continue reading
The Prime Minister has just responded to a petition: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to remove the unelected bishops from the House of Lords.” Details of Petition: “The number of people attending church declines year on year and … Continue reading