My previous post Remote Desktop + SSH/Putty covered one approach for accessing your home PC via a strong security, strong encryption SSH tunnel. SSL-Explorer from 3SP also looks like a very simple way to remotely access your PC. I first heard of this project when it was mentioned on Steve Gibson’s ‘Security Now!’ podcast (episode […]
Okay, Google’s latest project Google Trends is pretty entertaining. Type in a search term like, ‘hurricane katrina‘ and get back a graph of search volume over time, and a table of the cities where the search term was most popular. The results are normalised, i.e. the table is ordered by searches for ‘hurricane katrina’ over […]
Wow, I just saw this really thought provoking comment on the the Slashdot article: States Pass Thousands of Info Restriction Laws. “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident […]
Noticed on a blog somewhere that Google now has a location in Kirland, WA. Thought I’d have a look whereabouts, as I stayed in Kirkland while working with Microsoft. Turns out they are just across the road from the apartment building I was staying in (and where my digital camera was stolen, grrr). Have a […]