June 30, 2004
Iraqi Sovereignty.
From zeyad:
Actually, it took the unguarded Arab media by complete surprise, and I swear I could notice their confusion since it was very obvious that they hadn't yet prepared anything to downplay the significance of the event.
I got a good laugh out of NPR's coverage of the early hand-over of Iraqi Sovereignty. The difference between the first news report and one four hours later, when they had had time to think up some spin, was quite apparent.
Death of Disarmament in Russia.
Russia seems to be consistently increasing spending on its military, and aggressively improving its nuclear war capabilities. Interesting.
June 20, 2004
Slice of life..
I upgraded from a Treo 300 to Treo 600. Naturally getting a camera phone for the first time, I had to shoot lots of photos.
June 18, 2004
Ruby on Rails.
Rails, a ruby framework, is simply the best way I've found to develop small to medium sized web apps. I could rave on for quite a while, but I won't.
June 07, 2004
Instiki Application.
Instiki, one of the nicest little wikis, now has a standalone application for OS X. You start the application, as you would any other program on your mac, and you have a wiki running on your network. No pain, all gain.
June 05, 2004
An Open Proxy's View.
In effect, CoDeeN is one of the largest ``open'' proxy networks in the world, and therefore draws unwanted attention from malicious users. This paper discusses our experiences with undesirable traffic on CoDeeN, the mechanisms we developed to curtail it, and the future directions for such work.
Full paper here. Rather interesting.
June 01, 2004
Multipeople person.
I was at the beach for with some friends. Since I'm not really into sunbathing, I pulled out the camera, took a few portraits, and then combined a mix of everyone's facial features into several different new faces. Here's an example:
