Month: June 2007
ssldump
Identifies TCP connections on the chosen network interface and attempts to interpret them as SSLv3/TLS traffic. When it identifies SSLv3/TLS traffic, it decodes the records and displays them in a textual form to stdout.
Will they boycott reality?
The National Union of Journalists in the UK is planning a Europe-wide day of protest against cuts in journalism. One wonders whom they’ll picket: the internet? the economy? their readers? reality? Whom can they boycott this time (at least this isn’t Israel’s fault; that was the NUJ’s last grand political act). Protesting is so empty, so unproductive, ultimately so silly.
journalist union has no better idea than a protest. old think: stage a protest. new think: get busy solving the problem.
Life-logging recall
SenseCam a wearable digital camera that is designed to take photographs passively, without user intervention, while it is being worn.
Subjects were highly successful at distinguishing their own images from that of controls, even after 4 months. We failed to find any difference in people’s ability to recognize or order actively and passively taken images.
Don Hillary
definitely not your father’s campaign video. no kissing of babies or wearing of hardhats.
MyLifeBits Demo
Videos from the mylifebits ui
Mobile Microentrepreneurs
the story of mobile phone use in africa is all the rage recently
Camera phone use
Microsoft Research has an interesting taxonomy of image capture
Understanding photowork
Understanding photowork “most users rejected the use of any form of actual digital photo album software. Despite often having such software bundled with the camera when purchased, we saw no evidence of it being used.” software is an aftertought to manufacturers, and it shows.
Second Life
if people moved in real life like they do in second life, ie, like zombies.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 