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StockTrader 2.0 Sample (Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog) Sample end-to-end .NET/WCF application (tags: c# sample) Getting Things Done: Get organized with GTDTiddlyWiki A simple personal wiki engine. (tags: wiki web javascript free) Set up your personal Wikipedia (Lifehacker) MediaWiki isn't the easiest to install wiki software out there, but it's still (for my money) the best. [...]

PerversionTracker They’re back! And they’re unleashed on the App Store! (tags: humor iphone apple) Poor security quality in software. Someone is watching over me. (Zero in a bit) Why do we assume that our software is secure? (tags: security)

So here I am back in Lenox. It’s beautiful but ominous skies and a day of Russian ahead; our residency for Tschaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin has begun. I’m currently flashing back to my one encounter with the language, a class in 1986, and am very grateful that I was exposed to the soft consonants ahead of [...]

Alaska Senator Is Indicted on Corruption Charges (NYTimes.com) Oddly, VECO’s pipelines also look like a series of tubes. (tags: gop congress tedstevens) A Simple Book Repair Manual (Dartmouth) How to rescue your torn pages and broken book covers in, well, a bunch of steps. (tags: books bookbinding)

Two stories caught my eye in the Globe, one with proximity to my vocation and one to my avocation. The first was regarding the undeveloped land to the south of our offices in Burlington. Pointedly subtitled “city can’t develop land in Burlington, Woburn,” the story details the ongoing dance between citizens of the suburbs who [...]

What He Knows for Sure (The New Yorker) A profile of Tavis Smiley, who “hates blowouts”, and his cautions on Obama. (tags: 2008 obama) R. Stevens Steers Diesel Sweeties Back to Its Roots (Wired) R. makes the analogy between webcomics and organic farming. Of course mass market news is the national supermarket chain! Can’t believe [...]

I was about to delete an email from Bob Cramblitt on my old blog, until I actually read it and realized it was relevant to at least some of my readers: Hi Tim: Thought you’d like to know that Seth Godin, Joel Spolsky, Jason Fried and others are coming to Boston for the Business of [...]

I posted a quick link to an article about Microsoft’s new BrowseRank search technology a few days ago. Here’s why the paper is informative, why I think BrowseRank is an interesting technology for improving search, and why I think it’s doomed as a general-purpose basis for building relevance data for the web. Informative: This paper [...]

Elliott Carter, a modernist oasis (Exhibitionist – Boston.com) I’m really sorry I wasn’t out there for any of the Carter. There’s little enough modern music programmed at Tanglewood when the TFC is in residence. (tags: tanglewood bso) URLInfo Reveals Hidden Web Site Server Details (LifeHacker) Interesting promise to make HTTP headers visible. Didn’t work for [...]

Wow what a picture (Dave Winer/AP) Dave is right, it’s an impressive photo (of Obama greeting the crowd in Berlin) on several levels. (tags: 2008 election obama photography) Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank (CNET) BrowseRank sounds a lot like an algorithm I saw being discussed internally a few years ago. Interesting to see the [...]

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to work at an amazing company in the security space, wonder no more. Veracode is growing, and we’ve got quite a few openings in sales, engineering, QA, research, and even (particularly) in product management. If you’ve read my posts about security and product management, if you’ve [...]

CNN reporter says bad things about the TSA, gets hassled every time he flies (Boing Boing) Can the next administration please turn on the lights at TSA and see what the nest of vermin over there are really up to? (tags: securitytheater tsa) I’m am absent-minded engineer (Salon) There’s a kind of poetry in Cary’s [...]

I may have been too hasty to condemn the WordPress for iPhone app. One of my criticisms was that it couldn’t upload a photo to my site. Well, I just discovered that I couldn’t either, even using the browser. This appears to be another issue with WordPress 2.6. Fortunately the fix is simple: fill in [...]

Seriously, people, what is going on with the rain out here? We have had deluging thunderstorms every day this week. There was a stranded van on my commute this morning. On Route 2A in Burlington, for heavens’ sake. On Monday this week, I was picking up some things at the Walgreens in Arlington Heights, which [...]

Exposing Bush’s historic abuse of power (Salon) Does the executive branch keep a massive database of illegally obtained information on dozens of individuals? (tags: bush politics intelligence) Oh man, I’m gonna abuse this (Big Contrarian) Instant Rimshot, meet Cowbell Plus, a real iPhone app that allows you to play percussion instruments by shaking the phone. [...]