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
2010
97 posts
Reflecting on the year 2010
Reflection on the year 2010, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal
Eurobloat #0007 • November 2010
The month Brussels passed the hat round for Ireland, lost a court case to its own farmers, launched a diplomatic corps nobody voted for, and decided what it really needed was a tax of its very own.
Eurobloat
A Different Beat by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 1999 release, a record that leans on tone and touch. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
Music
Merry Christmas
Christmas now speaks to me as a young adult. The birth of Jesus inspires daily living.
Christianity
A Day Without Rain by Enya
Enya's calm 2000 album, layered Celtic-tinged songs about time and seasons, found by me years after it appeared.
Music
De Cock en het lijk aan de kerkmuur by A.C. Baantjer
The body of a tramp is found against a church wall, but a doctor finds he was murdered in an unusual way, and the dead man turns out to be a rich baron.
Books
Monthly update #0247 • November 2010
Monthly update 247 • November 2010 • 2010-11-01 - 2010-11-30
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0052 • November 2010
November 2010 was dominated by the WikiLeaks Cablegate disclosures, Facebook's push into email, a TSA body scanner revolt, and Europe's hardening line on Google's Street View data grab.
Privacy
Worth Dying For by Lee Child
Worth Dying For picks up after 61 Hours, with an injured Reacher in Nebraska confronting a family-run cartel trafficking humans.
Books
Eurobloat #0006 • October 2010
The month two leaders carved up the Lisbon Treaty over a seaside lunch, the Parliament voted itself a bigger allowance and floated its own taxes, and Brussels decided that cloned cows and refillable burdens needed yet more rules.
Eurobloat
And If Our God Is for Us... by Chris Tomlin
Chris Tomlin's 2010 worship record, a confident set of modern hymns about a God who is for us.
Music
The Celts by Enya
Enya's 1992 reissue of her 1987 debut, a soundtrack to a Celtic history series, which I found years after its release.
Music
Lucky Luke versus the Pinkertons by Daniel Pennac
Set under President Lincoln, Lucky Luke crosses swords with Allan Pinkerton, the ambitious detective who fancies himself the marshal's successor.
Books
Useful macOS defaults: NSGlobalDomain
Handy defaults write commands for NSGlobalDomain, the global settings domain on macOS.
Mac
Monthly update #0246 • October 2010
Monthly update 246 • October 2010 • 2010-10-01 - 2010-10-31
Monthly Updates
What are InstallerDiagnostics and InstallerProgress?
If you see InstallerDiagnostics or InstallerProgress on your Mac, here is what these installer processes do.
Mac
De Cock en de stervende wandelaar by A.C. Baantjer
A student found dead in a police cell was put there to sleep off the drink, but the post-mortem shows he was poisoned, and De Cock must find out who killed him.
Books
Dark Side of the Chant by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2010 record, rock and pop songs reworked as choral chant, solemn and oddly moving.
Music
Privacy Roundup #0051 • October 2010
October 2010 was dominated by Google's admission that its Street View cars had grabbed emails and passwords, by leaky social apps handing user identifiers to advertisers, and by Firesheep laying bare the perils of unencrypted web sessions.
Privacy
What is eapolcfg_auth?
If you see eapolcfg_auth on your Mac, here is what this network authentication process does.
Mac
Eurobloat #0005 • September 2010
The month Brussels gave itself three brand-new financial regulators, scolded Paris over its borders, signed a returns deal with Pakistan, and switched off your 75-watt bulb.
Eurobloat
Eden by Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman's 1998 release, grand and unhurried singing. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
Music
Here Is Love by Bethel Music
Bethel Music's first live album from 2010, spontaneous and unguarded worship recorded among the congregation.
Music
Privacy Roundup #0050 • September 2010
September 2010 saw location and behavioural tracking dominate the privacy agenda, as Google's chief courted controversy, the ACS:Law breach exposed thousands of file-sharers, and governments on both sides of the Atlantic pushed for wiretaps, identity numbers, and internet blacklists.
Privacy