Category: Science and Technology

Have I mentioned that Bruce Schneier is like unto a God among my people? I mean the deep geeks, like me, are into him because he’s a leading cryptographer–his Twofish algorithm (which I actually implemented in a product at the last company) was an AES candidate–and he’s written interesting technical books on cryptography. However, he’s also a writer on more… Read more →

Warning: this will be a very geeky post about WordPress internals and a bug I just fixed in the current version. Feel free to skip this if that stuff isn’t up your alley. So, this PHP stuff is pretty easy to figure out compared to the stuff I do every day at the day job. I had been unable to… Read more →

On my list of things to post about, I have a rant about how algorithms should not be patentable. However, looking at some of the applications makes the argument more elegantly than I ever could. Read more →

Firefox has released 1.0. Go get it. I’ve been playing with this since the first release of Mozilla, which seems like FOREVER ago, and occasionally have used the various releases along the way for a little while, but since the 1.0 Preview Release I have been using Firefox as my primary-and-almost-exclusive browser. In every important way it is superior to… Read more →