Off-the-Record Messaging

Off-the-Record Messaging is a way of having secure (encrypted), authenticated communications over instant messaging with no chance of retrospective compromise (cracking the conversation key doesn’t mess with previous converstations) and deniability (you can...

DIY Teleprompter

Nice article by a guy who built a teleprompter. A little too much effort, I think, but still fun.

Pay without Performance

Pay without Performance has pointers to the continuing growth in inequity between company leaders and their staff. Not nice but I don’t know how one might stop this kind of thing.The most telling detail for me is the observation p98, that every single CEO in the...

The R Project for Statistical Computing

The R Project for Statistical Computing looks interesting. We’ve just been struggling with Microsoft’s MapPoint – so much that we’re ditching it in favour of Maps on Tap.