Twenty years ago today, was the angriest I remember being in my entire life. I was at a friend's house going over SCA heraldic arms submissions with herveus and our host, when our host's wife shouted down (we were in the basement) to turn on the news. All channels were broadcasting that the United States was at war, and that Desert Shield had become ( Read more... )

There are some very interesting developments in the news regarding the Stuxnet virus. I confess that I mostly ignored this virus, like most computer viruses, when it came out as it appeared to impact only computers running the Windows operating system. It turns out I was wrong, it actually uses Windows to spread itself, but targets industrial ( Read more... )