Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:actuall, it probably was a bad career choice (Score 1) 250

It's difficult to decide what's a bad career choice without taking into account the personality of the person making the decision. And of course, everybody's different. I'm currently in IT research and about to jump into a startup company for several reasons:
  1. I like challenges and am willing to take risks
  2. I'm going to work no harder in trying to make a successful and lucrative business then I was working in research. This is an unsubtle but very important point
  3. I do feel passionately about the technology and the work

The greater risk would be wondering what-if? for the rest of my life. My point is that these things can't really be planned and much of life is about risk, opportunism and luck ;-)
User Journal

Journal Journal: quote or be damned

Just read some great quotations here
Some are funny, some insightful and others quite inspiring. All are worth reading... I especially like the one from the famous american baseball player, Satchel Paige

work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like nobody's watching.

User Journal

Journal Journal: pdf'ed newspaper front pages

Just picked this up from a friends site.

Very useful facility which provides pdf versions of the front pages of newspapers from around the world. You'll never miss that headline again
and it's a fascinating historical archive.

User Journal

Journal Journal: world traveller

Just saw a link to this site on a friends 'livejournal'. Looks like I've got some gaps to fill in my efforts to boldly go where millions have gone before but at least I've hit about 14% of the globe. That's a lot plunder and pillage ;-) Check my visited country map here...
User Journal

Journal Journal: The People versus Peoplesoft

So Peoplesoft are getting their big fat Oracle-0Wn3d ass sued for promising vapourware to a client
I hope this doesn't spawn an unwelcome trend of

  • realistic software release schedules
  • accurate product announcements (and even worse)
  • compliance with functional specifications leading to bemused yet strangely satisfied customers
User Journal

Journal Journal: Microsoft Code through the looking glass

Just had a brief look at the MS source code comments on Kuro5hin. My favourite is...
private\shell\ext\tweakui\genthunk.c:
* CallProc32W is insane. It's a variadic function that uses
* the pascal calling convention. (It probably makes more sense
* when you're stoned.)

The comments asserting that good code is more likely to contain references to 'filthy dirty hac

User Journal

Journal Journal: worm eating worm

What's the best way to kill a worm? An anonymous group of VX'ers
seems to think the answer is another worm.
Malware authors watch out The NetSky anti-worm is spreading, fixing machines by
removing the infamous bagle worm and is soon to be released in source form. More info @ the reg

User Journal

Journal Journal: googling for fun and profit

very nice article on the reg about malicious googling here. It's fascinating how much information organisations expose via their website and how much can be garnered by a powerful search tool like google. There's a neat example of malicious googling using the gooscan google scanner @ johnny.ihackstuff.com . Play with this for a while and you'll be very surprised (and possibly distur

User Journal

Journal Journal: on the bleedin' edge

No, not the new Colin Farrell movie :-)

http://www.circleid.com/article/499_0_1_0_C/
Bob Frankston has an interesting article that I culled from the /. uber-site
about the proliferation of new transport technologies (VoIP, P2P etc.)
and their affect on fhe organisation that provide basic lower-layer connections
such as cable companies.

User Journal

Journal Journal: On-Campus Wifi to build social capital.

Check out the following projects that I'm involved in. the NOMAD Project. This has recently been publicised on 'the reg' in this article.
Uniquely NOMAD is investigating and attemptingly quantitative analysis of the developmen of social capital using wireless communications technologies. Key issues are always-on multi-modal communication, trust, security and measurement of 'netwo

Slashdot Top Deals

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary saftey deserve neither liberty not saftey." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

Working...