In January I published five goals:
Arguably I accomplished 4 of them. Obviously this isn't 5 ...
read moreOnce again, it's demonstrated that sitting around a table drafting policy fails the common sense test. Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Sam Houson State University decided to ask all members of their social media portal for username and passwords. Their published policy still does. My favorite part:
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Not too long ago, a puzzler admitted to solving the NPR Sunday Puzzle with a computer. Since I hate word puzzles quite a bit, I'd taken similar steps in the past. For example, this recent challenge:
Fill in the 4x4 square crossword with common uncapitalized words, using no letter ...
read moreOver halfway through 2011, so it's time to revisit my goals again. I really should post more often.
pwnguin.net consistently gets more than a thousand hits a month. That's enough that I can start adding A/B experiments on the most popular pages. I've ...
read moreBeen a few months since I've set my goals for 2011, and the holiday's a good time to reflect on progress and life.
The website's still doing okay. I did waste a bit of time drafting an (unpublished) guide on using grep to solve ...
read moreWent out to Vegas to attend The Java Symposium 2011. Not really fond of the location, but you have to pick your battles. It's a three day conference, but travel really knocks out at least a day.
The most interesting talks, I thought, were less about specific technology releases ...
read moreNew year, new website. The old design worked okay, but Google's recent pagerank tweak punished my RSS aggregation trick. So I've accelerated plans to move the blog to self-hosting, which gives me more stuff to analyze and might one day cover the cost of hosting. Tight deadline though ...
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