The Blog of Harald

ThinkGeek :: Shower Shock Caffeinated Soap

Just what every True Geek needs for a morning pick-me-up.

Pocket PC Thoughts :: View topic – Star Wars fans mocked

This was/is screamingly funny; Triumph from the Conan O’Brien show mocks a bunch of Star Wars fans waiting in line to see Attack of the Clones.

Google Sets

This is just cool. Enter a few items from a set, and Google will predict more items from the set.

Security In Web Services: An Evolving Threat Model

an interesting article on the security threats that large web service providers are currently dealing with; all unusual in that they’re not the classic “break in and do something”, but attempts to engineer the system in other ways.

I liked this comment:

“[Manber]’s considering changing the registration test to a simple arithmetic problem. It won’t stop the mass registrations, but he might be able to get the abusers to perform distributed computing tasks for him.”

My employer is suffering from the tech implosion. So we’re bending over (almost literally) to close deals with customers.

Thanks to a high-profile deal, the vacation that I had planned for next week is cancelled, and I’ll be busy adding a new feature to my certificate authentication framework.

On the plus side, I might be travelling to San Diego in a week…