Hanna
Hanna (2011), directed by Joe Wright, follows a young girl trained to kill. Saoirse Ronan plays Hanna with cold skill and wide eyes. She lives in snow with her father.
Movies
Blog
Eurobloat #0011 • March 2011
The month Brussels invited itself to grade national budgets, told you to surrender your car by 2050, and abolished the actuary in the name of equality.
Eurobloat
Happy Easter
As a real adult Easter holds mature significance for me. The Christian faith rests on the fact of the resurrection.
Christianity
Good Friday
As a real adult Good Friday holds mature significance for me. The Christian faith rests on the fact of the crucifixion.
Christianity
What is wifiFirmwareLoader?
If you see wifiFirmwareLoader running on your Mac, here is what this Wi-Fi firmware process does.
Mac
What is SubmitDiagInfo?
If you see SubmitDiagInfo running on your Mac, here is what this diagnostic submission process does.
Mac
Privacy Roundup #0056 • March 2011
March 2011 was dominated by the RSA SecurID and Comodo certificate breaches, a wave of stolen email databases, and fresh fights over who may read your location and account records.
Privacy
De Cock en het dodelijk akkoord by A.C. Baantjer
De Cock helps a friend whose daughter is suspected of murder, but he is soon caught up in a dark plot himself.
Books
Monthly update #0251 • March 2011
Monthly update 251 • March 2011 • 2011-03-01 - 2011-03-31
Monthly Updates
Eurobloat #0010 • February 2011
The month Berlin and Paris drew up a Competitiveness Pact to grade everyone else, Brussels asked airlines for your credit card details, and the Galileo bill quietly grew by another two billion euros.
Eurobloat
Monthly update #0250 • February 2011
Monthly update 250 • February 2011 • 2011-02-01 - 2011-02-28
Monthly Updates
De Cock en de broeders van de zachte dood by A.C. Baantjer
A De Cock mystery that opens with a short piece by A.C. Baantjer on death in crime fiction.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0055 • February 2011
February 2011 was dominated by the Anonymous raid on HBGary, fresh proof of corporate surveillance plots, and a browser industry scrambling to define what Do Not Track should mean.
Privacy
Lie to Me
Lie to Me is an American crime drama series. It aired on Fox from 21 January 2009 to 31 January 2011. Samuel Baum created it. Tim Roth plays Dr Cal Lightman, an expert in reading facial expressions and body language to spot when people are lying.
TV Series
Eurobloat #0009 • January 2011
The month Brussels appointed itself headmaster of the eurozone, stood up three brand-new supervisors, handed Estonia the euro on the eve of a debt crisis, and discovered it had been bankrolling the dictators it was now busy freezing out.
Eurobloat
Useful macOS defaults: Terminal
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.Terminal, controlling how Terminal looks and behaves.
Mac
What is fontmover?
If you see fontmover running on your Mac, here is what this font management process does.
Mac
What is sessionlogoutd?
If you see sessionlogoutd running on your Mac, here is what this logout process does.
Mac
What is netauth.sys.auth?
If you see netauth.sys.auth or netauth.sys.gui on your Mac, here is what these network authentication processes do.
Mac
Monthly update #0249 • January 2011
Monthly update 249 • January 2011 • 2011-01-01 - 2011-01-31
Monthly Updates
De Cock en de naakte juffer by A.C. Baantjer
A boy of about eight brings a death notice addressed to De Cock to the Warmoesstraat station, and the funeral is the start of a puzzling murder case.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0054 • January 2011
January 2011 was shaped by the WikiLeaks fallout, hacktivist attacks across the Arab Spring, and a steady drip of data breaches and tracking rows.
Privacy
Eurobloat #0008 • December 2010
The month Brussels rewrote the Treaty to bless a permanent bailout fund, launched a brand new diplomatic corps, and handed itself a budget rise while half the continent went bust.
Eurobloat
eenbericht.nl
The concept of eenbericht.nl was very simple. You buy a token, every time a token is bought the price increased with 1 cent. With that token you could place a message on the website.
Projects
De Cock en de dansende dood by A.C. Baantjer
A De Cock mystery that opens with a short piece by A.C. Baantjer on death in crime fiction.
Books