There’s an excellent quote in our ENT (Entrepreneurship) lecture notes on IP (Intellectual Property): IP often provides the leverage needed for successful companies to stay ahead of the pack. That makes protecting your IP essential. After all, the only one who should benefit from your innovation is you, right?! [Emphasis added by yours truly] This… Read more
For security I’ve been storing all my work stuff on an encrypted disk image. I knew the dangers of this going in – not only was I taking a substantial risk using disk images at all, but I was going with a sparse image to boot. Must be that masochistic streak. Long story short, the… Read more
I didn’t do much at all today, and it was awesome. :D I slept in until lunch time… I hadn’t planned on it, although I had stayed up until 3am or so, but I was just so comfy in bed, and I’d left my heater on all night [by accident], so my room was all… Read more
Now, it’s well known that youngins of all species do not mix well with computers, given that they typically don’t understand the concept of “oh sweet jezuit that’s expensive don’t do that!”. ‘course, some people apparently don’t mind the occasional flirt with danger, such as the owner of this shiny new MacBook Pro. Thanks to… Read more
I was just Googling for an expression, something along the lines of “OMG lk thts so qte!”… I’m having a mindblank, but it’s one of the epitomal expressions associated with your typical 16 year old girl online. So I Googled first for “OMG cute”, which was too generic. I then added “16 year old” to… Read more
Ah-ha! I knew it; Enrico Colantoni – better known as Elliot DiMauro on Just Shoot Me – is one of the aliens in Galaxy Quest; so says IMDB. No one else figured it, but I was sure it was him… his physical appearance in Galaxy Quest is a little distorted, but that’s intentional; he is… Read more