This is rather impressive. If you want to see the APRS info for your area, check out the query site. Very handy for Business Continuity portals…on the same note, I just added a weather plugin to the right. The best use might be if it can detect the weather of the person (IP) visiting, but for now it gives you a window into one of the environments I live in. If I’m feeling ambitious I might also add in a few surveillance images.
Monthly Archives: December 2005
Site Maintenance
Well, I recently posted some security fixes to the photo log (plog) portion of the site and now WordPress has announced their 2.0 release is official, which means I’ll be doing some fiddling over the next few hours to test and perhaps migrate the site. I’m excited about all the new features, but what really caught my eye was the little slogan at the bottom of the WordPress site:
Excellent! Although if it were up to me I would suggest they change this to “Secure Code is Poetry”, since a lot of code is just plain crap, and crap really isn’t poetry at all. I mean you have to draw the line somewhere, right?
Buyers beware
This is becoming all too common on the Internet: you have something stolen so you go online to see if you can get a good deal and suddenly realize the seller is the same person who stole the thing from you in the first place.
Today’s news is interesting because the man looking to replace his camera thought it odd that the seller was in the same town. This highlights the rather old adage “innocent until proven guilty” with the emphasis on the fact that the dumber the crook, the less likely they will be able to duck and cover once confronted with some basic facts.
In the retail industry eBay is sometimes the first place you look when things go missing. It almost lets the criminals implicate themselves for you, rather than requiring any kind of messy investigation. In fact, you might say that people can be awfully careful, if not downright sneaky, about theft just about up to the point where they post their warez online. And suddenly they’re in a whole new world with little idea of how to keep up the ruse. I almost felt sorry for one guy who went to jail. He was virtually invisible in the real world but lit up like a christmas tree online and probably never realized the connection.
A Poison Tree
by William Blake
I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I waterd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.
And into my garden stole.
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see,
My foe outstretchd beneath the tree.