It is not every day that you read in the news that someone has paid $50K for Pooh:
The oval pencil sketch by E.H. Shepard, one of children’s literature’s most famous illustrators, shows Pooh dipping his paw into a pot of honey while sitting at a table as Piglet and Tigger look on.
Auctioneer Bonhams said the successful telephone bidder was from Germany and bought the picture for his wife, a long-time Pooh fan.
With this kind of success, especially during hard times, more Pooh is on the way.
Adam indulges with a Beatles rewrite
It was twenty years ago today
Sgt. Morris taught the worms to play
They’ve been going in and out of style
But they’re guaranteed to last a while
So may I introduce to you…
the bug you’ve known for all these years
Sgt. Morris Lonely worm club band
Cute.
Danny McPherson takes a different approach to explain the changes in 20 years since the Morris Worm.
…new network applications being developed can’t work on new ports or employ new IP-based transport protocols, so they’ve got to piggyback on existing “open” ones (e.g., IPSEC v. TLS). The nearing exhaustion of IPv4 address space, and the adoption of IPv6, which is not bits-on-the-wire compatible, only exacerbates the transparency problem…
Try saying that three times fast. In other words, I think he means to say that the implicit trust is gone. The Internet touches more people today with many more complex relationships and so they need a more closed/protective mode to begin with.
I miss hearing Steve’s humor:
“One time the power went out in my house, I had no lights. Fortunately my camera had a flash. I went to make a peanut butter sandwich and took 60 pictures of my kitchen. My neighbors called the police. They thought it was lightning in my house.”
“I was walking down the street and all of a sudden the prescription for my eye-glasses ran out…”
“I don’t have to walk my dog anymore. I walked him all at once. He was fun when he was a puppy. I named him Stay. When I’d call him I’d say C’mere Stay C’mere Stay he’d go like this. He’s a lot smarter than that now. Now when I call him he just ignores me and keeps on typing.”
“I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.”
The San Jose Mercury News suggests police are dealing with professional criminals in a jewelry heist:
Someone forced entry into an adjoining business that did not have an alarm and then broke into the jewelry store by smashing through a common wall, [Los Altos police Detective Sgt. John] Korges said.
He said that, due to the amount of labor the burglary required, it appears more than one person was involved.
Once in the jewelry store, the suspect or suspects used commercial-grade tools to penetrate the safe, taking between $350,000 and $400,000 of loose precious stones and jewelry left for service and repair.
It reads like there are no leads yet other than it was someone who knew what they were doing with the safe.