Archive for December, 2009

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2010

Dec 31st

Posted by Jonathan Puddle in Personal

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By far the biggest event for our family this year, was adding a third member. The XKCD comic from a few weeks back was thus. I felt it appropriate to share with you all.

Happy new year, everyone! From the four of us here in Finland.

10 favourite cinematic experiences of the last decade

Dec 31st

Posted by Jonathan Puddle in Movies

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Many people and organizations have released their best 100 or best 50 films of the last decade already, which are available elsewhere. I’ve decided to distill my own favourites into 10 of the best cinematic experiences. So that means the Lord of the Rings trilogy are grouped into one, as they truly are intended to be a coherent cinematic experience, but Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are separate. This is not what I think to be the best of the decade, just the ones that I personally enjoyed the most.

  1. Lord of the Rings (a masterpiece)
  2. Avatar (Avatar will literally and figuratively More >

Open Source Security

Dec 4th

Posted by Jonathan Puddle in Uncategorized

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As a cryptography and computer security expert, I have never understood the current fuss about the open source software movement. In the cryptography world, we consider open source necessary for good security; we have for decades. Public security is always more secure than proprietary security. It’s true for cryptographic algorithms, security protocols, and security source code. For us, open source isn’t just a business model; it’s smart engineering practice. – Bruce Schneier, Crypto-Gram 1999/09/15