Archive | January, 2006

Asterisk @ Home and other silly phone tricks…

Important links for cool phone tricks :) Get a VOIP chat account (free) from the Gizmo Project. Get a free software phone from the XTen guys. (X-Lite is fine) Use Virtual PC and fire up an install of Asterisk @ Home (VMWare free player is fine if you follow these instructions) Follow the Asterisk @ [...]

Gonna eat a lot of…

Peaches’ controversial sex-positive stance basically involves objectifying everyone, in order to both celebrate sexuality and mock objectification itself. Songs like “Shake yr dix” make this pretty clear. If they had subordinated Peaches’ radical stance to conform to a granola-feminist ideal, they would have failed to capture the postmodern & carnivalesque free-for-all her music represents. feministing.com.

Life must be good in school these days…

The first time I heard a mother of girls talk about the teenage oral-sex craze, I made her cry. The story she told me — about a bar mitzvah dinner dance on the North Shore of Chicago, where the girls serviced all the boys on the chartered bus from the temple to the reception hall [...]

Is this supposed to be this hot?

I took a counsellor position at an american summer camp a while back and ended up supervising 14 year old girls. I once overheard some of the girls talking about how the crept out at night to meet the boys from the other side of the camp. Not suprising – I’d have done the same [...]

Wink – freeware? Cool!

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Wink – [Homepage].

Managing the “Surface Area” of SQL Server 2005

As every developer knows by now, Microsoft has focused renewed attention on security in recent product releases. One of the important concepts in this effort is surface area. Roughly speaking, a piece of software has a smaller surface area if there are fewer ways to attack it: fewer open ports, fewer APIs, fewer protocols, and [...]

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