Some time ago I’ve written about (commercial) software which you can get (legally!) for free. Now I’m writing about the media you can (legally!) consume on the “Intertubes”. There are of course the well known players like Pandora, Hulu, Last.fm, and so on (although some of those are not available outside the USA – a…

Lately I’ve been reading about financial markets in general and equity markets specifically. I’m by no means an expert, but I’ve certainly picked up some things. What surprised me is how “distant” some elements of these markets are from reality. For example: stock is easy to understand – you get part of the ownership of…

Most probably a Fiordland Penguin:

We’ve just bought a small digital camera and it came with two AA batteries. I was wandering if they were rechargeable. The text on them wasn’t really that clear, it said something like “may explode if recharged inserted improperly”, which left me wondering: do they mean “inserted improperly in the charger” or is a comma…

See you soon.

malware competition.pdf MD5: 1FD6AC0B6120EE280C0A0E68300EFEEC SHA1: A48F88569EA0CD47F97F0327B3DBCB4BC1AF3CF8 After the end-date has passed, I’ll post the complete solution.

One of my readers commented that he thought that people should use wikis rather than blogs. I agree with him (for the same reasons he mentions). The ideal CMS (Content Management System) for me would look something like this: On the basis it should have a wiki. I often write tutorials, and the main characteristics…

A colleague gave me a link to the Malware Challeng site. Basically, they have a sample and you have until the 26th of October to analyze it and send them the analysis and prizes will be given to the best analysis. Prizes will be given. But this is not what I wanted to talk about.…

I game occasionally and these days I’ve learned a new word: speedrun. From Wikipedia: A speedrun is a play-through, or recording thereof, of a computer- or video game performed with the intent of completing it as quickly as possible, optionally under certain prerequisites, mainly for the purposes of entertainment and competition. At Speed Demos Archive…

I find it amusing how people try to keep things secret, yet they talk about things which (rather directly) reveal the information they try to keep secret. Take for example the comments on this article (for my non-romanian speaking readers: it talks about the recent evolution of the EUR-RON exchange rate). One reader comments (approximately):…