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?
Syndic8: Getting Stuff Done — Jeff Barr has a great method for breaking down projects into really short tasks: I keep a very detailed TODO list. When I am about to do something new, I break it down into items that can be done in 5 to 15 minute chunks. Given the power of PHP and MySQL, these chunks can be pretty big. I make each chunk something that will move the site forward, or at least not break it. I work on single chunks, write the code, test it, and deploy it (sometimes I reverse the order of the…