Archive for March, 2006

default-deny in webapps?

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

This is … all about dbms’es — a topic I’m getting quite intimate with this semester (what with the whole “writing our own in class” thing and all).
I’m thinking … from a security perspective, default-allow is a bad thing, and default-deny is a good one — ie: you should have to explicitly enumerate the things [...]

counter-anti-intellectualism

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

It seems a lot lately like there’s this cultural anti-intellectual push coming from the far-right — the religious nuts who are gaining more political power… I dunno.
Anyway, I think this anti-intellectualism is pretty perceptible these days … and manifests itself in a lot of forms. Government’s catering to big media over science (read: DMCA, [...]

Thinkin’ bout lifestyles…

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

I’m just giving a little thought to my current lifestyle. If I were to give it a single, dominant descriptor, it would probably be “persistent”.
I live a persistent lifestyle. I am persistently present in a few places. I do persistent things. I’m a persistent presence at work. Generally, my whole [...]