things that only i could care about

adobe dng

Digital Negative (DNG): http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/main.html
My first thought was “Oh good – another image file format – just what I need”, but that’s a mistake. Adobe do have some very good points about why we need .DNG in their PDF file (see above):
“Camera manufacturers often drop support for a propriety raw format a few years after [...]

god vs. bush

http://www.greenfaces.se/upload/uploads/godvsbush.gif
Another link from Duncan – I was going to pass this off as being as loony as numerology, but now I’m starting to wonder…

the power of q

I tend to use vi/vim quite a lot and have grown from hating it, to enjoying it like a cracked filling: I can’t help but poke at it and am always startled by the results. Today, I learnt about a command that makes all of the others seem tame:
q
Wow. It starts [...]

making ms word more annoying

Waiting for my coffee to brew, I had a great idea: how to add in a new feature to Word that would be more annoying than Clippy ! (that’s great as in “I don’t use Word so I can laugh at those who must”…)
How about a Bumble Bee (called Bumbly, of course) that looks [...]

announcements of the death of SPF are, perhaps, premature ?

I’ve seen recent mentions in a few places on the ‘net[1] that SPF (Sender Policy Framework) as an anti-spam measure has failed because more Spam companies have correct SPF details than non-spammers. I feel that for exactly the same reasons, SPF is working, and working well.
Ignoring the merits of SPF (for the moment) the [...]

maybe I shouldn’t bother with that pilot training

UserFriendly Strip 04sep04: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040904&mode=classic
Oh dear. That is so me… Perhaps it’s a good idea that I’m not going to start learning anytime soon.