Møkster Day 06
Day 6 of 8 to Møkster, an island in Norway.
Trips
Blog
Møkster Day 05
Day 5 of 8 to Møkster, an island in Norway.
Trips
Privacy Roundup #0093 • April 2014
April 2014 was defined by the Heartbleed catastrophe and a fresh wave of Snowden surveillance disclosures, as courts and journalists pushed back against state spying.
Privacy
Møkster Day 04
Day 4 of 8 to Møkster, an island in Norway.
Trips
MKGeodesicPolyline
MKGeodesicPolyline, added in iOS 7, draws the true shortest path between points on the Earth’s curved surface. On a flat map this appears as a gentle arc instead of a straight line.
Development
Møkster Day 03
Day 3 of 8 to Møkster, an island in Norway.
Trips
Møkster Day 02
Day 2 of 8 to Møkster, an island in Norway.
Trips
Møkster Day 01
Day 1 of 8 to Møkster, an island in Norway.
Trips
Eurobloat #0047 • March 2014
March 2014: Brussels built a brand new central authority to wind up your bank, voted itself a continent-wide rulebook for your data, and lectured Moscow with a guest list. More Europe, as ever, was the only answer on offer.
Eurobloat
Happy Easter
The Christian view of Easter deepens with time. Victory over the tomb points to a greater reality.
Christianity
Good Friday
The Christian view of Good Friday deepens with time. The cross points to a greater reality of love and justice.
Christianity
What is appinstalld?
If you see appinstalld running on your Mac, here is what this app installation process does.
Mac
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry is unexpectedly entered into the dangerous Triwizard Tournament at Hogwarts, facing deadly tasks and the return of Voldemort.
Books
Monthly update #0287 • March 2014
Monthly update 287 • March 2014 • 2014-03-01 - 2014-03-31
Monthly Updates
De Cock en een deal met de duivel by A.C. Baantjer
A member of a drug gang has vanished and seems to have been killed and hidden with care. De Cock investigates whether it is a contract killing.
Books
What is NetworkLinkConditioner?
If you see NetworkLinkConditioner on your Mac, here is what this network testing tool does.
Mac
Privacy Roundup #0092 • March 2014
March 2014 was dominated by fresh Snowden revelations about mass hacking and whole country call recording, alongside a European backlash, corporate encryption moves and a wave of payment card breaches.
Privacy
Eurobloat #0046 • February 2014
The month a small democracy voted to control its own borders and Brussels promptly froze it out of student exchanges, then graded all twenty-eight members on corruption while quietly omitting itself.
Eurobloat
What is pcapd?
If you see pcapd running on your Mac, here is what this network capture process does.
Mac
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban follows Harry’s third year at Hogwarts, where escaped convict Sirius Black, believed to be a murderer, hunts him.
Books
Useful macOS defaults: Launch Services
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.LaunchServices, controlling quarantine warnings and file associations.
Mac
De Cock en de dood in antiek by A.C. Baantjer
A young woman tells De Cock that a bronze sarcophagus has been stolen from her, and that a curse rests on it. He is sceptical at first, but the case soon turns serious.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0091 • February 2014
February 2014 was dominated by fresh Snowden revelations, the launch of The Intercept and a day of global protest, set against a run of data breaches and surveillance climbdowns.
Privacy
Monthly update #0286 • February 2014
Monthly update 286 • February 2014 • 2014-02-01 - 2014-02-28
Monthly Updates
Eurobloat #0045 • January 2014
January 2014: Brussels opened its borders, lectured Malta for selling passports, set itself a 2030 to-do list, and decided which European banks were allowed to be too big to fail.
Eurobloat