http://www.reluctantblogger.com thoughts.Serialize(); //TODO Refactor into something meaningful Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:57:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The firewall is dead," says Google security specialist Niels Provos. See also this Infoworld story via Yahoo news http://www.reluctantblogger.com/2007/06/things-that-clients-will-be-not-so-excited-to-hear-42.html http://www.reluctantblogger.com/2007/06/growing-up-in-public.html Jason asked for a translation of this French story via his Del.icio.us feed, and I had a few minutes to kill before my flight, so figured I'd take a crack at it.  It's been approximately 1 million years since I last opened a French textbook;  consider yourself warned... ;-) ==================================================== Mahalo, the hand-crafted ... http://www.reluctantblogger.com/2007/06/mahalo-ecrans-translation-draft.html   From NetworkWorld:  You might be digitizing books on the Web without knowing it thanks to this stealthy anti-spam technology   You know those pesky but necessary CAPTCHA boxes whose squiggly letters and digits you need to retype to make use of certain parts of sites such as Yahoo, Wikipedia and PayPal? A computer ... http://www.reluctantblogger.com/2007/05/more-spare-cycles.html Why does Google Apps for my domain, which I pay for, have fewer features (and screwier authentication) than the free version? Today's annoyance - Google docs publish to blog feature apparently doesn't exist at all in Google Apps...  grrr. And on a related note, it would be very cool if G added a "watch ... http://www.reluctantblogger.com/2007/05/dear-lazyweb.html From Tuesday's Financial Times: Google’s ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their days off. http://www.reluctantblogger.com/2007/05/almost-makes-microsofts-where-do-you-want-to-go-today-slogan-seem-quaint-doesnt-it.html @Blog There's a hole in your Twitter  as I've said before:  there *is* no indoor/outdoor voice anymore.  Ignore this reality at your own peril. 90% of handset owners believe iphone is superior to anything else on the market.  In other news, 90% of consumers are extraordinarily gullible.  Or sheep for the latest fad. Who ... http://www.reluctantblogger.com/2007/05/miscellany.html    This has absolutely nothing to do with anything that I normally write about here except that I thought M might enjoy it.  Great photos from a sandcastle contest in British Columbia.       H/T JDawg's Delicious feed   http://www.reluctantblogger.com/2007/05/apropos-of-nothing.html I received this via email because of the alerts I signed up for when I was tracking the Menu foods pet food/melamine poisoning crisis. Diethylene glycol, a poison, has been found in 6,000 tubes of toothpaste in Panama, and customs officials there said Friday that the product appeared ... http://www.reluctantblogger.com/2007/05/the-story-continues-melamine-in-pet-food-poison-in-toothpaste.html For the few people who are regular readers of this blog - - just FYI, I'm back.     From email: What did you do for your birthday, Paul? Hauled cinderblock through the Central Valley, actually.  Thanks for asking!  :) Some further explanation may be required.... I'm not close with anyone in my family, other than my ... http://www.reluctantblogger.com/2007/05/back.html