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Dan Geer, the CTO of @stake (a security consulting firm that has Microsoft as one of its clients) has left the company after signing a report that explained how the prevailing operating system monoculture is a threat to national security. It is unclear whether he was fired or left voluntarily, but given the timeline we [...]

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One of the things that I like best about this site is that it’s easily searchable. I oftentimes link to things just so I can go back and dig them up later. (Usually those are the items that are posted with really dull comments.) I find it easier to just note things here than to [...]

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One interesting debate in the weblog world is the effect that negative media coverage has on the ongoing efforts to rebuild Iraq. It’s hard to say where it all started (people unhappy with press coverage of Iraq have been blaming it for hindering our efforts for awhile now), but it came to a head this [...]

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My experimentation with Movable Type continues apace. The first big problem was figuring out how to get all of my old content into Movable Type. Movable Type can, of course, import content itself, and the import format is documented perfectly well. Unfortunately, that didn’t do it for me because I wanted to preserve the actual [...]

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I had been wondering recently why I never got any email viruses. I was pleased about it, but I couldn’t figure out why everyone else seemed plagued by them and I never got any at all. As it turns out, I had a procmail recipe that I’d added a long time ago that was [...]

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Why is providing government funds to faith-based charities a bad idea? Because even the most screwed up religions can apply. Salon today discusses the growing acceptance of the Unification Church (better known as the Moonies) among the religious right.

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IBM developerWorks has an article on integrating Struts, Tiles, and Java Server Faces. That strikes me as a form of masochism, but I’m reading it anyway.

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I took a pretty big bite out of my book queue this summer (even though I inserted some new books into the queue near the top of the stack out of impatience), so I’m looking forward to taking on Neal Stephenson’s new book Quicksilver sooner rather than later. Even though I was a bit stung [...]

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MSDN has an article on migrating from PHP to ASP.NET that provides a pretty good introduction to ASP.NET if you already know PHP. I don’t really want to migrate to ASP.NET but I would like to be able to discuss it intelligently.

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Here’s Fred Kaplan’s summary of Bush’s speech at the UN:

The U.S.-led occupation authority is doing good work in Iraq; you should come help us; if you don’t, you’re on the side of the terrorists.

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