Today’s shaping up to be a very busy day for me. I kinda knew it was going to be, but I had some hope yesterday that I’d finished up on a project I’ve been working on for what seems like forever, and I’d be free to deal with stuff on the personal side more. As it turns out, that’s not the case, and I’ve got a full load both on the personal side, as well as the business side of life. Not really complaining, since much of what I have to do today will end up being paying work, but it looks as though my planned helpings of fun may be cut back a bit. Sigh.
The plans for the day include: update web-pages for the old neighborhood; find and fix a bug or two for a programming client; update the ADHOC website so it uses templates for the page rendering; write up the problem I’ve been having with my VPN hardware; and write up the vacation in Toronto before I forget all about it. Oh yeah, and on the fun side, there’s a gathering of Saints fans for the single-game ticket sales, and the regular monthly poker game.
And as if that wasn’t enough, I’m doing this update via vi because there’s something whacky with my machine that’s keeping me from SFTPing things back and forth in BBEdit. Gotta figure that out before much longer, especially since I need to use it to do the website updates I mentioned above.
- A new deadline request is no ploy, Bell says (of the Light Rail Transit line). Because of the strike, Metro Transit may not be able to open the LRT before the federal December 1 deadline. I think the feds should refuse the request for an extension. Metro Transit pushed the drivers into this strike, and if that delays the opening of the LRT, well maybe that will give them an incentive to settle this strike. [press-patch]
- Says here you can buy Anti Aging Beer. My inititial thought is that I wonder if they soak crystals in it before bottling… It may be fine beer, but I’m generally skeptical of claims like the ones they’re making.
- People have been talking about Google’s gmail, but Evan’s got some Preemptive Pessimism. I agree with his point. Why the hell would I want google to be able to read all my email, and store it on their server? For that matter, I wouldn’t be allowed to do that by the terms of most of the contracts I work under (and most people will have similar non-disclosure agreements for anything work related). Hey, it got them a lot of buzz, and maybe some folks will move from hotmail or yahoo, but I just don’t get it. [101-280]
- Bruce Schneier’s new essay, Hacking the Business Climate for Network Security (PDF) takes a look at what it’s going to take to make computers secure. I think he’s at least partly right that it’s going to take a change in the business climate to make security the default. In libertarian politics, people talk about internalizing externalities and that’s pretty much what he’s saying.