Public Service Announcement

For those of you who like to have your bodies permanently marked with ink, and who find Asian culture of interest, the following educational resources are provided:

http://hanzismatter.blogspot.co.at/2006/08/gibberish-asian-font-mystery-solved.html 

http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/2009/11/another-set-of-gibberish-english.html

That is all

Back from the grave

Just another insane hardware hack:

http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1

Via

https://plus.google.com/108967323530519754654/posts/JjMVDsT6LUm

This week on Hoarders...

Actually, what little of that show that I've seen makes me think I'd really hate it if I gave it a chance.

But this guy fits the profile.

Uncle Miod's machineroom

Computational Necromancy

Hardware geeks at play.

Now we're talking!

http://www.itworld.com/hardware/270936/living-computing-fossils-old-tech-holding-dear-life

Yeah, I remember those. First image after the kid's abacus is a plug-board. Never used them on the job, but we did cover them in school.

Penguicon

Penguicon http://penguicon.org

SF, computer geek stuff, and liquid nitrogen ice cream. If my wife was here it would be perfect.

From the Plan 9 World

One of the folks in the Plan 9 community has a blog, with some interesting perspective on the (now long-ago) Debian OpenSSH keygen bug.

http://research.swtch.com/openssl

Recommended, as is the entire blog.