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Alasdair Mac Cormick - Random Musings


Saturday, July 31, 2004
 
Posted @: 1:30:20 AM by Ally   

Email Privacy

Last October, Bruce Schneier reported a new technique used by car thieves: precision stripping. Here's how it plays: steal a car. Strip the car down to the chassis. Dump the chassis on the street. Soon enough, the cops tow the chassis away. When the chassis is offered up at a police auction, buy the chassis. Reattach the parts to the chassis. Bingo! You now own - legally - a car that you stole. As Schneier puts it, the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) has been "laundered".

Clever man! But the article makes the more serious point about how marketers and advertisers and spammers are using ever more increasingly sneaky methods to obtain consumer information. While on point of email, I have a beta gmail account :-) Cheers Iain for the invite

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Monday, July 26, 2004
 
Posted @: 7:46:09 AM by Ally   

Im back, and hopefully with a new design soon - good luck to anyone viewing this page in anything other than IE and a screen <17 inches!! Anyways, more logging of reading...

"Why I Love EJBs, an Introduction to Modern Java Middleware" by Marc Fleury

And if you were ever confused about how to deploy caches and pools then check out InformIT latest article on it (you need to register, hence no link)

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Tuesday, March 23, 2004
 
Posted @: 8:04:44 PM by Ally   

Jini Network Technology Fulfilling its Promise: A Conversation with Jim Waldo

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Saturday, March 20, 2004
 
Posted @: 9:45:44 PM by Ally   

Easter Eggs

What is an "Easter Egg"? - The term "Easter Egg", as we use it here, means any amusing tidbit that creators hid in their creations. They could be in computer software, movies, music, art, books, or even your watch. There are thousands of them, and they can be quite entertaining,...

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Sunday, March 07, 2004
 
Posted @: 8:52:27 PM by Ally   

Language Once Was Key—Now It's Design

Grady Booch, Rational Software's chief scientist and a pioneer in software modeling, tells you when you do—and don't—need to get into serious design, how to deal with the impedance mismatch between SQL and OOP, and more.

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