Even if IT / technology topics make you want to **yawn** and curl up to go to sleep… you should still read this. Slightly old, but enlightening (and I have to say, kinda comedic in places): M86 Security Labs report for the second half of 2011.
[updated 2012-05-15].
This is a dump of recent learnings that I’m posting in one place in case it helps someone else. It’s about touch-screen discriminations for average joes ‘n janes. It’s about what you should know about touchscreens and input pens, if you care about handwritten notes and fine artwork.
The stylus shouldn’t just be seen as some kind of throwback millennial embarrassment. The stylus points the way to great potential. It points to the future, damnit! If you don’t get this, I… I really can’t help you. Really, I can’t. Avert your eyes. Touch some other part of the screen and navigate away…
Everyone else read on: Continue reading
At one point, I thought the internet would fork thusly:
1) privileged access for a privileged few (more bandwith, higher QoS, better search/filter algs, glossier content, bought privacy)
2) the great unwashed (less b’width, shitty QoS (relatively speaking), invasive ads, next to no privacy)
Well, give it time, I suppose. It might still happen. In the meantime though, this is what is actually going on: Continue reading
The Samsung Galaxy tab is sweet… perfect form factor and so much fun to use. However, the lack of active digitizer technology leads to much worse results than I would’ve expected. I did expect a difference… just not a world of difference! So it’s resolved then: gotta cultivate the self-discipline to HOLD OUT a good long while for the Note 10.1…
Just realized that Google maps uses the Mercator projection*.
Good LORD.
I only found this out because I was looking for taiwan (my geography sucks), and so not having an atlas handy, I decided to use google maps. And for once, I had to zoom out a lot – to a global/planetary view. While I was there, panning around, and having fun oohing and ah-ing about the proximities of {laos, cambodia, burma, bangladesh, tibet, nepal, india, pakistan} which NEVER. SEEM. TO IMPRINT. on any kind of memory I can muster – photographic or otherwise, so that I never seem to remember just where the hell the borders of these countries are… I panned past the now-infamous pakistan/afghanistan border, curious to remind myself of what lay beyond… Continue reading
Finally posted my generalist manifesto. Feeling a bit silly about it, as I made it a page instead of a post. Too prominent, too prominent… Hmm. I grow less comfortable with soapboxes as the years roll by…
Just when you think you have no blog fodder left, your parents come along and try to skype with you…
And skyping automagically means video, because try as I might, ever since they discovered this functionality, the two things (talking over the net, seeing each other over the net) are now hopelessly entangled in their aging minds. I literally cannot get them to understand that we can talk without seeing each other. Which to be honest, is what I would prefer. But if they cannot see you, they despair. This affliction only seems to affect the older members of the so-called family. So it might be an age thing. Kinda like the way older people prefer talking on the phone to texting. Feels more real… Continue reading
ffs. Cave to iPad or hold out for the tf700? Or get middling, muted instant satisfaction with tf300t? That really is the question… I can’t believe how utterly hosed the android tablet situation is right now. Apple deserves every penny everyone seems hell bent on handing them. And as for a 3rd horse in these races (I’m looking at you, WiN’kia), one would have been rather nice, yes. For once, me and my luddite behind actually needs a device, for very specific use cases, and what I need doesn’t exist in palatable forms. Seriously getting stroppy as I’d like closure SOONISH.
Dispensing with the proper italian name for the dish I’ve copied, mainly because I don’t know what it is, here is The Tinuum’s first ever recipe. And in the spirit of everything else on here, it will be completely devoid of actual measurements or precise instructions. Even the attendant food porn will barely titillate, for I will simply be whipping out my camera for a quick bowl shot before shoving it all down me gob…
Downloading fun: thanks to a colleague who has re-introduced me to torrents. Gosh, have I ever been missing out…! (My last dalliance with this sort of thing was with limewire. I can’t remember quite what happened. Hassle, probably. And fears of malware).