In my last post on gzip, I discovered that gzip can compress data in a more sync-friendly way. This totally unrelated blog entry from nginx discusses a new gunzip filter that decompresses compressed data for clients that don’t support gzip. I was thinking about this the other day. Why not store all your content compressed, then you
Gzip and Rsync were sitting in a tree, k-i-s- Ok, I’ll stop. I just wanted to mention that I came across this little nugget in the gzip manpage the other night: [crayon-64cebc32311c8264312067/] That, I think, is pretty cool.
I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher yesterday, and I empathized with Maher’s frustration at not being able to communicate with people because we can’t agree on facts (Maher refers to this as being “inside the conservative bubble”). In the context of the show, one of the panelists denied climate change, and said that
People say that we need to have more folks appear on ballots to make elections fairer and get the right person elected. That’s all fine and good, and I’m 100% behind this effort to break out of a two-party system that is so inured in our culture. There’s only one problem: You can only pick
Not that everyone hasn’t already predicted the demise of Google+, but I still feel the need to express why I think G+ was the wrong move. Note that I’m not predicting that “Facebook will win!” (Win what, exactly?) Where Google went completely myopic was ripping out the share function of Reader. Yeah, I know what
I wrote before about Cryptocat, and now it seems Schneier has weighed in on the idea, agreeing with researcher Chris Soghoian that depending on host-based security makes it actually not very secure at all. Enter Cryptocat 2, an iterative improvement moving towards a browser plugin to avoid the host-based dependency. Good on ’em!
Schneier on Security: Court Orders TSA to Answer EPIC. Please help the courts force the TSA to consider public comments on full body scanners. Year ago, EPIC sued the TSA over full body scanners (I was one of the plantiffs), demanding that they follow their own rules and ask for public comment. The court agreed,
The missus and I went out to dinner tonight with our very good friends to the Green Elephant restaurant, across from the State Theater. I must confess I am usually apprehensive about places that are exclusively veg / vegan, but tonight everything we tried was right on the money. Great food, great company and fantastic
Anything stand out about these headlines to you? It certainly does to me. I hope whomever made this default news & weather app for Cyanogenmod doesn’t take their marching orders from Murdoch / Fox / Beck.
