John Lam reports today that he found my CityDesk -> Movable Type conversion notes useful. Cool! I’m glad it was useful for someone else. Like John, I moved over from CityDesk to MovableType. I like using CityDesk (a beta for v2.0 was recently announced), but have been very happy with Movable Type. I haven’t taken much advantage of Comments or TrackBack, but the simple ability to manage my blog or create entries from anywhere was the key feature for me.
Top 75 Network Security Tools, results of a survey of 1800 people who use the Nmap security scanner.
Today’s Mercury News reports that the wind tunnels at NASA/Ames Research Center in Mountain View are closing.
PhotoPal looks like a promising server-based solution for organizing and presenting pictures. I really need to get caught up with all my digitial pictures — they’re quietly sitting in several folders on my desktop right now. Update: It looks like PhotoPal is now known as PhotoStack. [Via Inluminent.com]
The local paper (San Jose Mercury News) has been doing a full-court press leading up to the release of Matrix: Reloaded. I’m trying to avoid reading too much about it before I see it, but this quote from the SJ Mercury review was classic: There is also an enormous freeway chase that feels like an old Burt Reynolds movie breaking out in the middle of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” That reminds me…is Smokey and the Bandit on DVD yet?