I love wikipedia. There’s no other word for what I feel when it comes to The Free Encyclopedia that Anyone can Edit. God knows, if I had spent the time I spend reading up stuff at Wikipedia on managing my money, I would have been a millionaire by now! This wikipedia reading fever manifests [...]
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Mar 132006
After my post on what I’ve been upto these last few months, a couple of people asked me the names of the books I read on secure coding. Here’s the list: 1. Writing Secure Code 2nd Edition: If there is one book you could read on secure coding, this will be it. Favourite chapters: [...]
Sep 262005
Which computer game did you start with? In my case, it was PacMan on a brand-new 286 machine in my dad’s office. This was followed by several games, but ones which stand out in memory are: a car racing game by a company called Accolade, a version of Donkey Kong (can’t remember the name), a [...]
Aug 292005
While I was on the road last week, I finished reading The Rule of Four. Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomson, fresh out of college, have written a book set in the campus of Princeton about an under-grad’s obsession in finding the underlying meaning of an esoteric rennaisance text called HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI (hypner-oto-machia poli-phili) that [...]
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