Most people, whether they admit to it or not, enjoy learning about their birthdays and/or who shares them. Well, I stumbled onto a Wikipedia page for things that happened on a given day. I have some cool people with my birthday — Carl Jung, Kevin Spacey, Mick Jagger, and even Chris Pirillo. 🙂 The cool one about Chris…
Archives for October 2005
I Love Indian People
For no particular reason at all I just feel like mentioning how much I like, and have always liked, Indian people. To start with, I don’t think I’ve ever met an Indian person I didn’t like. It’s almost as if having a good nature is an element of the culture. When I think of Indians that I’ve known…
What Does Your Toilet Paper Roll Say About You?
So I’ve had a theory for many years now. It’s not particularly poignant or anything, but I figured it’s my blog so I might as well indulge. I think it may be possible to determine the degree of masculinity/assertiveness a person has by observing how they prefer to place a roll of toilet paper on the spool. I…
Linux Distro Wars
Someone pointed out this Gentoo flame article the other day and I just got around to finally reading it. Well, it was lame. Not because the guy likes Slackware better than Gentoo, but because of the reasons he gave. His major gripe seemed to be that it was difficult to get KDE running in Gentoo. I say bovine…
Security: Identification, Authentication, and Authorization
Many grapple with the concept of authentication in information security. What tends to happen is that they confuse authentication with identification or authorization. They are in fact all distinct concepts, and should be thought of as such. Let’s go over each and give an example or two: Identification Identification is nothing more than claiming you are somebody. You…