After 10 years as their own covers band, Pixies have finally decided to release new material to spare them the embarrassment of trotting out the same old classics on tour. via Pixies: Indie Cindy – Music News | Gigs, Album Reviews & More | The Irish Times – Fri, Apr 18, 2014. Ok, I laughed. […]
Pashley Sovereign. A real classic bike. Edit: I got it in May, couldn’t say no!
‘Girl Picking Poppies’, Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924) via Twitter / geminicat7: 'Girl Picking Poppies', Daniel ….
Great column by Colette Browne in the Indo today, pointing out that being irate at someone for messing up a schedule shouldn’t be mistaken for bullying: To try to suggest that the treatment meted out to Prendeville, from a disgruntled guest over a scheduling issue, was in any way analogous to the horrific abuse suffered […]
Apparently, the NSA may have at least known of this bug for a long time, and you can bet your boots they’ve exploited it against someone. Given their propensity for reading the communications of all and sundry, I somehow doubt that only the ‘bad guys’* were targeted. In any case, if the NSA knew about […]
Just when you might have thought it safe to wander out, a reminder that those heartbeats in TLS work both ways, so a malicious server could compromise your client (browser, VPN, and so on) with interesting results. Check https://reverseheartbleed.com/
I’m tempted by this little old-school Voigtlander Vitoret DR German 35mm Cameraon eBay (pear not included according to the seller). There’s something nice about manual photography…
