Archive for February, 2006
Pod slurping
A company called Sharp Ideas has created a proof-of-concept program to suck down company confidential information to an iPod (or other USB device), to emphasise the concept that information security needs to take into account physical security. Pod slurping is the name they give it, and it sounds more sinister than it really is. My [...]
The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes – Lyrics
Heard this song on a snowboarding movie recently and loved it. The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes – Lyrics I’ve got a cupboard with cans of food,Filtered water and pictures of you,And I’m not coming out until this is all over,And I’m looking through the glass,Where the light bends at the cracks,And I’m [...]
Broken Wrist
Well, it had to happen sooner or later. I’ve been watching more snowboarding movies this season and this encouraged my confidence to overstep the mark last weekend in Silvretta Nova (Austria). I was on the boarder park doing jumps when one went wrong. I leaned back too much in the jump and was coming down [...]
Dohoggeddiadiaemmerdohogged
dohogged Originally uploaded by Surferbill. Found this sign above a bench outside a restaurant near the castle in Tuebingen, Germany. It’s written in Schwabisch (local German dialect), in proper German would be, “Da hocken die, die immer da hocken” and loosely translated says, “Here sit those who always sit here”, implying that the bench is [...]
Diggnation in Reno-Tahoe
I would love to go to this… The Diggnation guys are filming a live video podcast in Tahoe and will spend the rest of the weekend snowboarding, playing poker and holding a LAN party. Want want want!
Overheard in the Office: The Voice of the Cubicle
Overheard in the Office: The Voice of the Cubicle