De Cock en moord eerste klasse by A.C. Baantjer
A run of nearly identical murders of young women in the first-class compartments of trains leaves De Cock without a motive or a suspect.
Books
2012
95 posts
Privacy Roundup #0071 • June 2012
June 2012 paired a wave of unsalted password breaches at LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm with the unmasking of the state-built Flame and Stuxnet cyberweapons and fresh fights over surveillance law.
Privacy
Monthly update #0266 • June 2012
Monthly update 266 • June 2012 • 2012-06-01 - 2012-06-30
Monthly Updates
Eurobloat #0025 • May 2012
The month Brussels graded its members like a schoolmaster, blessed a new tax it could not pass, defended its own power grab as not a power grab, and discovered it could regulate the name of a sock.
Eurobloat
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier, splits the herd apart when the continents begin to shift. Ray Romano voices Manny, who is set adrift on an iceberg and must find his way back to his family.
Movies
Quiet by Susan Cain
Susan Cain challenges the prevailing notion that extroversion is the sole determinant of success.
Books
What is odproxyd?
If you see odproxyd running on your Mac, here is what this directory services process does.
Mac
What is RFBEventHelper?
If you see RFBEventHelper running on your Mac, here is what this screen sharing process does.
Mac
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, and Conrad Vernon, follows the zoo animals across Europe as they join a travelling circus to escape a relentless animal control officer. Ben Stiller voices Alex the lion.
Movies
Privacy Roundup #0070 • May 2012
May 2012 paired the Flame cyber-espionage discovery and a run of payment and password breaches with fresh regulator pressure on Google, Myspace and Facebook over how they handle personal data.
Privacy
De Cock en een dodelijke dreiging by A.C. Baantjer
In the weeks before Christmas, De Cock meets his hardest murder cases. A find on the Keizersgracht grows into something far larger than he expected.
Books
Steve Jobs at the D: All Things Digital Conference
There’s lots of video of the late Steve Jobs, primarily from his famous introductions of Apple products over the years, and his oft-quoted Stanford commencement address.
Gems
Monthly update #0265 • May 2012
Monthly update 265 • May 2012 • 2012-05-01 - 2012-05-31
Monthly Updates
Pentecost
Years of reflection make Pentecost even more meaningful. The Holy Spirit came to unite and empower the church.
Christianity
Eurobloat #0024 • April 2012
April 2012, in which Brussels handed your flight history to Washington for fifteen years, drafted itself a brand new tax, and lectured a continent of the unemployed about a job-rich recovery.
Eurobloat
Useful macOS defaults: Desktop Services
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.desktopservices, controlling .DS_Store files and Finder behaviour.
Mac
What is locationd and why does it want to use Location Services?
If you see locationd running on your Mac or get location permission prompts, here is what this process does.
Mac
The Grey
The Grey (2011), directed by Joe Carnahan, follows men who crash in Alaska. Liam Neeson plays Ottway, a hunter who guards oil workers. He knows wolves and death.
Movies
Ascension Day
Years of reflection make Ascension Day even more meaningful. Jesus left the earth but sent his Spirit.
Christianity
What is diskimagesiod?
If you see diskimagesiod running on your Mac, here is what this disk image process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0264 • April 2012
Monthly update 264 • April 2012 • 2012-04-01 - 2012-04-30
Monthly Updates
De Cock en moord in brons by A.C. Baantjer
A respected member of an antiquarian society is found murdered under the Muiderpoort with a rare bronze knife in his back. De Cock and Vledder enter the closed world of the society to find the killer.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0069 • April 2012
April 2012 was defined by CISPA marching through the House over a veto threat, fresh payment card and health record breaches, and Google's long Street View reckoning catching up with it.
Privacy
Hospbit
Hospbit was a web application for companies and delivers support for building maintenance. Your maintenance staff can use our service for detailed reports and analyses.
Projects
Eurobloat #0023 • March 2012
The month Brussels signed a treaty to police everyone's budget, docked Hungary half a billion euros to prove it meant it, and started shopping for its own taxes.
Eurobloat