This is just too good not to mention.
Archive of entries posted on February 2009
“Geekerati brace for Unix timestamp milestone”
Come on guys, even geeks have better things to pay attention to.
“A Low-Tech Treatment for Bee Plague”
An interesting look at the ongoing investigation into Colony Collapse Disorder, and a sensible suggestion for a long-term solution.
XKCD on Security
All too true: (Discovered via the Schneier on Security blog.)
Markdown Plugin, and Syntax
I’ve installed a Markdown plugin on the blog, which should make writing nicely-formatted posts and comments a lot easier and quicker. This is the same system that the Stack Overflow site uses (and that’s where I found out about it). Here’s the Markdown syntax cheatsheet, cut from this page: