naath is taking a long walk in Scotland. She's sent some photos:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red/black_concept describes a notation sometimes used when discussing confidentiality:

• red denotes signals carrying secret plaintext;
• black denotes signals carrying ciphertext.

Is there any generally agreed coloring for the analogous integrity question? i.e.:

• a color which denotes signals where integrity matters (or ( Read more... )

Since it’s the feast of day Saints Cyril and Methodius, it occurred to me to wonder who else has a script named after them. pseudomonas chipped in and we came up with the following:

• Tironian notes, a shorthand system attributed to a Roman scribe called Marcus Tullius Tiro from the 1st century BCE. This seems to be an alphabetic system with an aggressively ( Read more... )

Humble Comics Bundle 'Creators Own Worlds'. About a day left so I’ll post pint-sized reviews now rather than waiting any longer.

Bitch Planet Vol. 1. The setting is a world where patriarchy is more overtly the basis of society; the president is called “Father” and women are imprisoned for the most trivial breaches of strict gender roles. The ( Read more... )

naath has purple hair now!


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You see a lot of this design around Cambridge, I think invariably at floor level. Also Herons, though I've not been recording those.


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We visited the Centre for Computing History in October. Although a bit haphazard in places there's a lot to look at and much of it was familiar.

naath playing Atic Atac. You run around a castle collecting keys (to get through doors) and the fragments of a quest object. I spent a lot of time playing this; I remember one of my brother and I finishing ( Read more... )

I reached for 1. Outside first, because of course I would. A concept album and I love the concept; aurally while I like the music, it’s the lyrics that I’m really here for. Some of my favourites:

(i) “Oh, Ramona - if there was only something between us
If there was only something between us
Other than our clothesSomething I have thought about a ( Read more... )

The Killing. Lengthy subtitled Danish police procedural, in which Copenhagen detective Sarah Lund (Sofie Gråbøl) becomes obsessed with solving the horrific murder of Nanna Birk Larsen ( Read more... )

From time to time I and colleagues find ourselves extending some function in C in a way that requires extra arguments. Often this happens in a context where it's impractical to change all the callers (for instance, because some of them are in customer code) so the extended version of the function gets a new name and the original name just calls ( Read more... )