ISO3200, 1/45s, F5.6, Hand Held
Another photo from our trip to the Holidazzle parade.
Holidazzle (Pt 2) Hook’s Ship
ISO3200, 1/45s, F5.6, Hand Held
ISO3200, 1/45s, F5.6, Hand Held
Holidazzle (Pt 1) Santa’s Sleigh
ISO 3200, 1/30S, F4.5, Hand Held
On Wednesday, we went down to watch the Holidazzle parade. We had tried to go on Saturday, but realized when we got down there that we had made a fatal mistake:
We went on a Saturday. And the weather was nice.
Bad idea.
But Wednesday? That’s the day to go.
I brought my camera down and fooled around taking some low light photos. This is the first of three that I liked a lot.
Laugh Out Loud Funny
Oh man, if you have cats, this post over on Flea’s blog is soooo funny.
Steve called me at work. “The cat’s throwing up bubbles,” he said. “Solid bubbles. I’ve been moving her around the house everytime I hear her gacking, then I scrub the bubbles into the carpet. The floor looks cleaner now than it has in years.”
I deny the Holy Spirit
I have accepted the Blasphemy Challenge and with the help of my co-worker TJ, I have posted my response video on YouTube:
I fear not for my immortal soul, for I believe not that I have one.
As for a holy spirit, I believe I’ll have some Laphroaig.
Lots of fun comments over in the post on Pharyngula about this.
I am Pure Evil
How evil are you?
Mwaa ha ha ha ha
Referrers were borked
Hmm. Looks like the upgrade to the latest version of Serendipity turned off the referrer tracking.
Silly software.
So I have no referrer data after 10/27.
I have renabled referrer tracking, so I should start seeing some data again (assuming that anyone is actually referring traffic to me.)
If you upgraded your Serendipity install recently, and you want referrer tracking, you might want to check your settings.
New Christmas Mashup Album!
From dj BC, who brought you Santastic (available via torrent) and The Beastles (since taken down due to copyright issues – but you can probably find them if you look hard enough) comes Santastic II: Clausome!.
HTTP Server Response Codes for Toddlers
You need to be a geek to get these, but they are pretty damned funny.
201 Created
“You went pee-pee in the potty!”202 Accepted
“Daddy will do it in a minute.”
Personal firewall for the RFIDs you carry
From BoingBoing comes this wonderful information:
A Platform for RFID Security and Privacy Administration is a paper by Melanie R. Rieback and Georgi N. Gaydadjiev that won the award for Best Paper at the USENIX LISA (Large Installation Systems Administration) conference today. It proposes a “firewall for RFID tags” — a device that sits on your person and jams the signals from all your personal wireless tags (transit passes, etc), then selectively impersonates them according to rules you set. Your contactless transit card will only send its signal when you authorize it, not when some jerk with an RFID scanner snipes it as you walk down the street. The implementation details are both ingenious and plausible — it’s a remarkable piece of work. Up until now, the standard answer to privacy concerns with RFIDs is to just kill them — put your new US Passport in a microwave for a few minutes to nuke the chip. But with an RFID firewall, it might be possible to reap the benefits of RFID without the cost.
This is a must-read paper for anyone who cares about electronic privacy and who wants to catch a glimpse of the future.
Disappearing Civil Liberties Mug
Now this is six kinds of awesome!
Simply pour in your coffee or any hot beverage and watch the painstaking work of the founding fathers vanish before your eyes and then reappear after drinking up or cooling down.
Thanks BoingBoing!