Month: October 2007

A recipe we’ve been playing around with, and took to a Halloween party Saturday night. It’s quite tasty. For a single serving: 1 ounce vodka 1 ounce vanilla liqueur 1.5 ounces apple juice 1 tbsp. real pumpkin Cinnamon (dash) Nutmeg (garnish) In a shaker with ice, shake up all the ingredients (yes, shaken, not stirred).… Continue reading Pumpkin martini

So apparently the Storm Worm—an email-propagating trojan that’s creating an unknowingly-large botnet—has learned how to figure out when security researchers are probing it and is retaliating (Via Boing Boing via Slashdot): The Storm worm is fighting back against security researchers that seek to destroy it and has them running scared, Interop New York show attendees… Continue reading Storm front

Jen posted something along the lines of what I was thinking; first there was National Novel Writing Month, now there’s also a National Blog Posting Month, what’s next? Any why are they both for November? Did the NaBloPoMo guys just follow the model too closely? Okay, enough rhetorical questions. (The answers, by the way, are… Continue reading NaNoWriBloPoMoFo

I know I’m a day behind on this, but every now and again, Slashdot posts a story that is so incomprehensibly gibberish-sounding that I point and laugh. Yesterday was one such: Time Dimension To Become Space-like. ‘We show that regular changes of signature on brane-worlds in AdS bulks may account for some types of the… Continue reading Slashdot gibberish