Archive for September, 2005

Sad and disturbing

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

There is something very sad and depressing about the story of Walter Wolfgang's ejection from this week's Labour Party Conference.

MD5 Hashes – Part 1

Monday, September 26th, 2005

MD5. Hashes. Just what is that all about? This article is to explore the subject a little and highlight some of the recent discoveries and issues. If you know all about MD5, hash collisions, SHA-1, ... then this isn't for you! I'm writing this for someone who is technically aware, possibly ...

Death to folders!

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

Folders are dead. I came to this conclusion a little while ago, although I didn't realise it at the time. Then in the current issue of The Economist they write about it here. And suddenly it all made sense. They're right.

Inspiration from Carl Sagan

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Carl Sagan, after he saw an image of the Earth [planetary.org] taken by Voyager wrote: Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate ...

Bright? Daft name, right idea…

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Pop over to The Brights site to find a growing community of people with a naturalistic worldview, free of mumbo-jumbo and suspertition (in its very many forms).