Archive for September, 2005
Drink Drive
Thursday, September 29th, 2005I am so glad I wasn’t stopped by the police on the way back from the freshers fair, not that I’d been drink driving though, but it looked like it.
Ruth had a bottle of cider of which I had a taste (only a little bit) it was nice but Ruth didn’t want it anymore and [...]
Securing Access
Saturday, September 17th, 2005When most people think of security they think of it as ways used to keep unauthorised people from accessing a resource, but there is another side to it. Ensuring that the people who are permitted do have access is an important goal also. If anything that may be the more important part because without it [...]
Microsoft’s Whining
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005Here is a story on BBC News about Microsoft’s second appeal against restrictions placed on it by the EU for anti-competitive practices.
Microsoft argues that the sanctions violate their intellectual property rights. Intellectual property “rights” are not natural rights they are government granted privileges to encourage contribution to society if someone abuses these to the detriment [...]
Sundown 2005
Saturday, September 10th, 2005This post is coming to you from Sundown 2005, a demoscene party in Budleigh Salterton.
There are lots of cool demos of pretty shiny things. One of them including graphics being run on iPod (fear the pod for it is shiny). There are also quite a few old skool stuffs like Spectrum music competitions and demos.
The [...]
Drawing
Friday, September 9th, 2005Those of you who visit here through the front page probably noticed the new picture on it. I drew it and here’s how…
The bike part of the picture is a tracing I did of a photo of Wasi* (pronounced wah-zee). It was done in Sodipodi.
The part with me and my penguin was first sketched out [...]