by Tom | Nov 18, 2013 | Personal, Reading
I love this. An enterprising coder and crossworder has taken inspiration from xkcd on the Adobe password leak and generated crosswords from the password hints and the crossword hashes. My lord there are some insecure passwords out there. Adobe Crossword....
by Tom | Nov 15, 2013 | Government, Hong Kong / China, Reading
A thought-provoking set of images that have been removed from Weibo. The inability of China to censor the internet outside China has similarities to the Conservative speech archive silliness. Glad that ProPublica is curating this. Covering up part of the sign leaves:...
by Tom | Nov 14, 2013 | Business, Government
Looks like we underestimated Occupy. Buying debt for pennies and forgiving it seems like a great idea. Not sure whether it cuts at the heart of capitalism, but it is a large scale version of suspended coffees.
by Tom | Nov 12, 2013 | Government, Personal, Reading
Wow, some must-read articles on new legislation working its way through the UK parliament. I get and salute the need for simplification of existing legislation, but we should not approach this through over-generality and vagueness. Descent into 1984 (because I...
by Tom | Nov 9, 2013 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Nice of the Upper House to have it waiting for me. #hkplates
