Bruce Schneier is reporting on a TSA leak concerning individuals performing what would appear to be test-runs of airport security screenings. I, obviously, have a few of my own theories.

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Yahoo! has recently released a Firefox extension for measuring site performance. YSlow takes advantage of Firebug and gives your site a grade based on 13 criteria available on the Yahoo’s Developer portal.

NOTE: I know this site is not passing yet, I’ve made a few improvements since I first got a hold of the extension and might continue to do so. In all honesty, you would be surprised how many sites don’t quite get graded above C.

It seems I can now know what songs I shall listen to… before I do so. Nice. Saves me from having to shuffle iTunes.

I’m sure most of you already know this - but Windows does not play nicely with true multi-user set-ups. But not just because, generally, more than one user would not be logged in to the same machine.

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If you’ve managed to get a job in a large corporation we can assume you’ve undergone some form of schooling in your life. Operating a plunger is NOT a technical job - you should be able to do it at this point. Life’s harder than that, you know.

So you read code every so often. You meet a coder. Fascinating people, we are. Most of us, at least. But we’re not the same, mind you. Here’s the breakdown:

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It is most interesting that, while listening to Zeitgeist, I see on Wikipedia’s page about the .va domain name [that belongs to the Vatican] that some of their name servers are named after Egyptian mythological figures.

Everybody’s complaining Jobs and Apple PR are the cause of fanboys. Well today I met a spiritually-inflicted fangirl.

So I’m sitting at my coffee shop, working on a project [always with the side-projects], typing happily away. This lady stops by the open window and begins ranting about how she has never seen a white laptop, how she’s been seeing apples everywhere, has some job interview tomorrow at Apple One and would like to buy an Apple now she’s seen one. In an endless tirade that lasted about 10 minutes I’ve found out she used to be bipolar, claims to be Joanne d’Arc, has recently undergone enlightenment by way of Jesus Christ [yes, she did told me to convert] and will become Bush’s personal adviser and solve all the problems of the world.

As you can see, sometimes people just dream apples and buy a Mac. It’s not always Jobs. Sometimes it’s the Holy Spirit.

People would much rather have you put your life on pause than complicate theirs briefly. Even if it’s their job to do so.

Anyone to ever watch a Jobs keynote knows the power of his Reality Distortion Field. It really goes to show why Apple’s been so successful since Jobs came back from NeXT.

But Apple users are not ALL under a permanent influence of RDF, despite what many would like to believe. Far from being a noble company, they have done some impressive things in technology, now and before. Appreciation for technology - even when sounding slightly fanboyish - should not be confused with RDF radiation damage. It’s a hard discussion to have with anyone - either side is too caught up by their egos to argue reasonably.

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