Author: Tim's Bookmarks

Doing business with the Amazon App Store sounds like a bundle of laughs.

Reading this book now (Space Suit: Fashioning Apollo). Brilliant reading, both the book and the interview.

Very cool presentation about how Pandora scales.

Technical rundown of the “vulnerabilities” (default PIN codes, other weaknesses) that enabled the phone hacking to occur.

When Dino Dai Zovi and Charlie Miller both say Lion is the most secure OS you’ve seen–and these are guys that can go through older Mac OS installations like swiss cheese–you should upgrade now.

Sounds funny until you look at the statistics.

Important points: always compare apples and apples; shipped <> sold.

Some bartenders have the gift of pardon.

Basic troubleshooting and hacking hint for working with Lion.

Lion’s in the store, and the Ars Technica review is here. Check out the comments on how the app store based installer works. Cool.

Today’s strip should be required reading for all technology product managers.

Troubling if true. Aaron Swartz has been active in the online community for a long time. Information may want to be free but not if you have to commit crimes to free it…

The old pie in the face. Very proud of the British people.

Nice to see the guys getting some ink. Wonder if Skip made lamb?

Slopegraphs could be the next sparklines, if they’re any easier to implement than sparklines are.

Insightful and actionable discussion of how to head off one of the big dangers in managing engineers.

Nice review of the Berlioz.

The reviewer is right about the programming and the singers. Would have been nice to hear his thoughts about the chorus.

Interesting analysis of the White Hat/Infrared Security acquisition. Right about a number of things, including the importance of having multiple testing methods. Wrong about Veracode’s dynamic technology, which does “look at the running application in situ.”

Every time I despair that what I do will have lasting impact, I’m going to think about this sign–and the research that the writers on the Conelrad blog were able to pull off in this article. Great stuff.

The easily-guessable iPhone unlock code is the 2011 equivalent of the easily-guessable password. Now with statistical frequency.

New old Sonic Yoof is a great start for the weekend.