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
Blog
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
Icon by Frederick Forsyth
In Frederick Forsyth’s Icon, a political thriller set in a chaotic 1999 Russia, a group of Western powerbrokers stumbles upon a dangerous plot.
Books
Monthly update #0232 • August 2009
Monthly update 232 • August 2009 • 2009-08-01 - 2009-08-31
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0037 • August 2009
August 2009 turned location, tracking and old-fashioned card theft into front-page worries, as a record breach indictment, a Twitter blackout and quiet browser snooping all landed in the same month.
Privacy
The Lazarus Vendetta by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Lazarus Vendetta, co-authored with Patrick Larkin, Covert-One's Jon Smith investigates a deadly attack on a nanotech laboratory linked to the shadowy Lazarus Movement.
Books
What is ODSAgent?
If you see ODSAgent running on your Mac, here is what this Open Directory process does.
Mac
What is gssd?
If you see gssd running on your Mac, here is what this authentication process does.
Mac
What is GSSCred?
If you see GSSCred running on your Mac, here is what this Kerberos credentials process does.
Mac
Privacy Roundup #0036 • July 2009
July 2009 turned on cascading account takeovers, remote control of devices we thought we owned, and a wave of state and corporate surveillance that pushed regulators and privacy advocates into action.
Privacy