Monthly update #0297 • January 2015
Monthly update 297 • January 2015 • 2015-01-01 - 2015-01-31
Monthly Updates
Blog
Eurobloat #0056 • December 2014
December 2014: the Court ruled that it answers to nobody, including the human rights court, Brussels conjured 315 billion euros out of 21 billion, and a fresh team promised to do less while quietly grabbing more.
Eurobloat
What is wifip2pd?
If you see wifip2pd running on your Mac, here is what this Wi-Fi peer-to-peer process does.
Mac
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari tells the story of humankind from the rise of Homo sapiens in Africa to the present day, asking how a small ape came to rule the world.
Books
Useful macOS defaults: Printing
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs, controlling printing behaviour on macOS.
Mac
Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy is an American crime drama series. It aired on FX from 3 September 2008 to 9 December 2014. Kurt Sutter created it. Charlie Hunnam plays Jax Teller, the vice president and later president of an outlaw motorcycle club in the fictional town of Charming, California.
TV Series
De Cock en de gebrandmerkte doden by A.C. Baantjer
A young man tells De Cock that his former girlfriend found her new lover dead, strangled and branded on the forehead. It is the start of a series of identical killings.
Books
Monthly update #0296 • December 2014
Monthly update 296 • December 2014 • 2014-12-01 - 2014-12-31
Monthly Updates
Why I stopped using Facebook
On 1 January 2012 I stopped using Facebook. That’s 3 years ago. I didn’t miss it for a second!
Journal
Privacy Roundup #0101 • December 2014
December 2014 was dominated by the Sony Pictures breach, fresh Snowden disclosures and a run of retail card thefts that exposed how fragile everyday privacy had become.
Privacy
Reflecting on the year 2014
Reflection on the year 2014, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal
Eurobloat #0055 • November 2014
A new Commission took office promising to conjure 315 billion euros out of 21, survived a censure vote over its president's tax-haven past, and ordered Google broken up between sermons. Brussels also decided your olive oil needed a back label telling you to keep it in the dark.
Eurobloat
Merry Christmas
The Christian view of Christmas deepens with time. Jesus birth points to Gods great love and justice.
Christianity
NSUndoManager
NSUndoManager gives you full undo/redo with almost no code. While you change something, tell the undo manager how to reverse it.
Development
De Cock en geen excuus voor moord by A.C. Baantjer
A young woman asks De Cock for help, but she is too late: her husband has hanged himself. It is the start of a grim case with no official support.
Books
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), directed by Peter Jackson, brings the story of Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield to its end. Martin Freeman plays Bilbo, who watches his friend lose himself to greed as armies gather at the gates of the Lonely Mountain.
Movies
Monthly update #0295 • November 2014
Monthly update 295 • November 2014 • 2014-11-01 - 2014-11-30
Monthly Updates
The Janson Option by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Option, co-authored with Douglas Corleone, Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid head to Somalia to rescue an aid worker held by pirates.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0100 • November 2014
November 2014 paired fresh Snowden cable-tap revelations and nation-state spy malware with a wave of corporate tracking and a stalled push for surveillance reform.
Privacy
Personal by Lee Child
In Personal, Reacher hunts a sniper who targeted the French president, linked to a past enemy from his Army days.
Books
Paddington
Paddington (2014), directed by Paul King, follows a young bear from Peru who arrives in London looking for a home. Ben Whishaw voices Paddington, a polite and hopeful bear who wears a red hat, loves marmalade, and believes the best of everyone he meets.
Movies
Eurobloat #0054 • October 2014
The month Brussels handed Britain a 1.7 billion pound bill, crowned a fresh Commission nobody voted for, and decided that rescuing drowning migrants was somebody else's job.
Eurobloat
Core Location in iOS 8
iOS 8 introduces significant updates to the Core Location framework, enhancing developer capabilities and user privacy through granular permissions, indoor positioning, and visit monitoring.
Development
De Cock en moord in reclame by A.C. Baantjer
De Cock gives a newly widowed woman a well-meant piece of advice, and seems to set off a case in which three murders follow in quick succession.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0099 • October 2014
October 2014 turned the post-Snowden privacy fight towards the phone in your pocket, as default encryption, carrier tracking headers and a run of retail breaches collided with a chorus of official complaints.
Privacy