What is VDCAssistant?
If you see VDCAssistant running on your Mac, here is what this camera assistant process does.
Mac
Blog
Monthly update #0237 • January 2010
Monthly update 237 • January 2010 • 2010-01-01 - 2010-01-31
Monthly Updates
The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth
In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling espionage novel, The Cobra, the U.S. President calls upon Paul Devereaux, a retired CIA operative known as “The Cobra,” to take down the global cocaine trade.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0042 • January 2010
January 2010 turned privacy into front-page news, as the China hack pushed Google to drop censorship, airport body scanners triggered a strip-search row, and surveillance abuses at the FBI came to light.
Privacy
iMok
iMok is intended as a kind of notepad to record what your colleagues or friends drink: coffee with milk, two lumps of sugar or maybe just black.
Projects
Avenger by Frederick Forsyth
In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling novel, Avenger, Calvin Dexter, a former Vietnam War tunnel rat turned lawyer and vigilante, embarks on a personal quest to hunt down Zoran Zilic, a Serbian war criminal responsible for a horrific murder.
Books
What is nfsd?
If you see nfsd running on your Mac, here is what this process does and whether you need it.
Mac
Privacy Roundup #0041 • December 2009
Facebook rewrote its privacy settings to push people to share more, while leaks and lawsuits exposed how phone firms, web giants and governments handle our data.
Privacy
De Cock en een strop voor Bobby by A.C. Baantjer
A young detective cannot let go of a sex worker's death and starts to dig into the reasons behind it. This is the first book in the long De Cock series.
Books
Monthly update #0236 • December 2009
Monthly update 236 • December 2009 • 2009-12-01 - 2009-12-31
Monthly Updates
Reflecting on the year 2009
Reflection on the year 2009, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal
Merry Christmas
I appreciate the full Christmas story more each year. God became man in the person of Jesus.
Christianity
Up
Up (2009), directed by Pete Docter, tells the tale of Carl Fredricksen, an old man who ties balloons to his house. Ed Asner voices Carl with gruff heart. He lost his wife Ellie. Christopher Plummer acts as Charles Muntz, the explorer gone wrong.
Movies
Monthly update #0235 • November 2009
Monthly update 235 • November 2009 • 2009-11-01 - 2009-11-30
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0040 • November 2009
November 2009 was the month privacy controls met their critics, as Google, Facebook and Twitter rewrote the rules while watchdogs, courts and lawmakers pushed back on surveillance.
Privacy
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
In Gone Tomorrow, Reacher spots a potential suicide bomber on a New York subway, triggering a hunt for Al-Qaeda connections and a corrupt politician.
Books
The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth
In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling sequel to Gaston Leroux’s classic, The Phantom of the Opera, the mysterious Erik, the Phantom, escapes Paris and starts a new life in New York City at the turn of the 20th century.
Books
Asterix and Obelix's Birthday by Albert Uderzo
It is the thirty-fourth book in the Asterix series. The village celebrates fifty years of Asterix with a golden book of memories and adventures.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0039 • October 2009
October 2009 saw harvested webmail passwords spill onto the open web, the Sidekick cloud erase a million phones, and lawmakers water down PATRIOT Act reform.
Privacy
What is ioupsd?
If you see ioupsd running on your Mac, here is what this UPS monitoring process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0234 • October 2009
Monthly update 234 • October 2009 • 2009-10-01 - 2009-10-31
Monthly Updates
The Moscow Vector by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Moscow Vector, co-authored with Patrick Larkin, Covert-One's Jon Smith hunts a deadly virus killing Russian leaders before a hardliner can seize the Kremlin.
Books
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol follows Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon as he races through Washington, D.C. to save his mentor from a mysterious attacker seeking a Masonic secret.
Books
Monthly update #0233 • September 2009
Monthly update 233 • September 2009 • 2009-09-01 - 2009-09-30
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0038 • September 2009
September 2009 saw Facebook bury its Beacon tracker, courts and regulators press Google over books and voice data, and researchers show how location and friend lists quietly betray the people who generate them.
Privacy