Book Review: First They Killed My Father
Loung Ung, First they Killed My Father, 2006. 238 pages. Before travelling to Cambodia, I wanted to learn a bit about their recent history - what »
Losing the Arms Race
Another month, another headling-grabbing bug: "Patch ASAP: Tons of Linux apps can be hijacked by evil DNS servers, man-in-the-middle miscreants" - The Register "Patch now! Unix »
Read-along: Berkeley DB
In this post, I read along with the 1999 Berkeley DB USENIX paper. Berkeley DB as a tiny (175KB) embedded key-value filesystem-backed database. Berkeley DB lets »
A Visualisation of Your Last.FM History
Today, I'm launching Scatter.FM, a new visualisation that shows Last.fm users how their listening habits change over time. If you've been a Last.fm »
A New Map of New Zealand's Wireless Networks
Mt Te Aroha Antenna Mast (Photo Credit: Joel Oughton) I've just launched a new visualisation: a map of New Zealand's terrestrial Radio/Wireless network. It's a »