Update on Alan Cox's Sabbatical

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I'm on sabbatical

I'm on sabbatical 05/21/2004 05:16 PM
I've never been one to slow down, let alone stop. When I wrapped up my work on Kinja in late April, I assumed I'd take a week or two to think about stuff and then dive back into work: write some articles, hit a conference or two, and pick up some consulting projects. And of course, at the same time, I'd be planning what big thing to do next: start another company or maybe develop a non-profit aimed at getting blogging into public schools. And the I realized a few things. I was exhausted and still hadn't shaken a throat infection I've had since early March. I had no perspective on anything, I was so deep into my world of weblogs and tech that I didn't have much sense of what was going on outside of my geek circles. And most importantly and luckily, I had some savings. I looked at my bank account and realized that financially there was no reason for me to immediately push into new projects. I've been burning my candle at both ends for years now, and decided it was time to stop. Emotionally I was drained. Physically I was drained. I might stop for a few weeks, maybe for a few months, I haven't decided. Part of the plan is to not plan so much, not worry about the future, to just enjoy the present and experience it. I'm calling it my sabbatical. I'm going to Nantucket for a while. I may post to this site a lot, but I may not post at all. I'm going to read and go running and take pictures and spend time with family. And sleep. And just be.

Cox's Big Bet on Itself

Cox's Big Bet on Itself 08/03/2004 10:54 AM
Business Week Aug 3 2004 3:38PM GMT

Things I have done on my sabbatical so
far

Things I have done on my sabbatical so
far 05/28/2004 12:18 PM
Gotten my shellfish permit so I can go clamming. Made a roaring fire with only one match. Planted lots of alyssum and petunias. Eaten many cups of clam chowder, not all at the same time. Slept with four blankets and still been cold. Read one Nantucket-based murder mystery which has made me scared at night. Set-up my internet connection and downloaded 10,000 emails. So far, so good.

John Cox's Blog: paFaq Multiple
Vulnerabilities

John Cox's Blog: paFaq Multiple
Vulnerabilities 06/22/2005 02:48 AM
John Cox has posted a new security issue with the paFaq FAQ/knowledge base system from the PHP Security Mailing List today.

I have never used paFAQ, and in fact, I had never heard of the application until today. However, in this security announcement there is a very good explanation about how a SQL Injection problem occurs:

The variable $username is taken directly from the submitted login form and executed in the query, so if magic quotes gpc is off an attacker can use UNION SELECT to bypass admin authentication!

He also notes that it seems like a lot of developers don't quite understand what make a SQL injection and why they can be so dangerous. He recommends this article from Steve Friedl as a good resource. Also of note, the response of the paFAQ developers - none. They didn't respond or issue a new version on their site (or even an announcement, for that matter). Definitely the wrong way to handle it...

Alan Cox:

Alan Cox: 03/20/2003 08:56 PM
Alan Cox: "XFree86 is hard to get involved with usefully, resistant to cool ideas and strongly wedded to an occasional not rolling regular release model. ... X has to evolve, X has to do cool stuff, X has to let people break stuff, X has to delegate trust to driver maintainers far more. ... As a driver maintainer X is a painful project, not because of the code ... but because of the project structure and lack of delegation."

"Alan Turing"

"Alan Turing" 06/08/2004 08:54 AM

Congratulations Alan!

Congratulations Alan! 06/12/2004 12:27 PM

Congratulations to Alan Kay for winning 2004 Kyoto Prize in addition to the ACM Turing Prize and the NAE Draper Prize earlier. He's really "cleaning up" this year. This is cool. He deserves it.

Hope this helps the Squeak project too!

more info on the Kyoto Prize

El retorno de Alan Cox

El retorno de Alan Cox 09/14/2004 06:28 PM

A Profile of Alan Greenspan

A Profile of Alan Greenspan 03/30/2005 01:12 AM
Alan Greenspan Takes A Bath : a profile of Greenspan

Alan Turing Honoured

Alan Turing Honoured 06/07/2004 11:52 PM
Free Internet Press Jun 8 2004 3:51AM GMT

Visita de Alan Kay a Extremadura

Visita de Alan Kay a Extremadura 01/06/2004 03:21 AM

Alan Kay wins Turing Award

Alan Kay wins Turing Award 04/26/2004 02:43 PM
One of my heroes wins computer science's top award.

Alan Turing - Thinking Up Computers

Alan Turing - Thinking Up Computers 05/16/2004 06:36 AM
Alan Turing - Thinking Up Computers By Andy Reinhardt
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_19/b3882029_mz0 72.htm

Alan Turing - Thinking Up Computers - The Cambridge University mathematician laid the foundation for the invention of software. As part of its anniversary celebration, BusinessWeek is presenting a series of weekly profiles for the greatest innovators of the past 75 years.

Alan Reiter on MSN watches: they will
suck

Alan Reiter on MSN watches: they will
suck 01/23/2004 02:20 PM
Do those MSN SPOT watches stand a chance? Mobile data pundit Alan Reiter says (this) (and this), summarized by BB reader John Troyer:

- They're big and ugly
- They need to be recharged daily
- They crash and sometimes die when shocked with static electricity
- They have to be turned off on planes
- Coverage is spotty compared to pagers and mobile phones
- News blurbs are 25-word useless snippets
- You have to tell MSN when and where you are traveling for it to work away from your home area!
- Nobody's *ever* made money selling generic headlines, weather and sports via wireless.

Reiter also says:

"However, syncing with MS Outlook is useful, and Reiter does believe they could catch on if Microsoft repositions to emphasize the fun aspects: downloadable watch faces, games, etc. ... [The watches] look as if they were designed by the Borg, on a very bad day. Many years ago Motorola introduced its first pager watch, I was there. I was pretty excited about the product. But when I spoke with a Motorola executive, he said the company wasn't sure whether the target market would view the device as a smallest, sexiest pager or as the world's ugliest watch. Unfortunately for Motorola, the view was the latter. Pager watches have generally died quick or lingering deaths. But the operative word is "death."

Link to earlier BoingBoing entry on MSN SPOT Watches

Alan Turing: Thinking Up Computers

Alan Turing: Thinking Up Computers 05/02/2004 02:07 PM
Business Week May 2 2004 6:24PM GMT

Alan Ralsky Gripes About Can Spam Act

Alan Ralsky Gripes About Can Spam Act 12/30/2003 08:48 PM

Alan Moore on our modern distopia

Alan Moore on our modern distopia 07/22/2004 02:31 AM
Salon has an excellent interview with Alan Moore, the man behind Watchmen, From Hell and other canonically awesome funnybooks. Moore talks distopian politics:

One of the reasons we singled out media in "V for Vendetta" was because it is one of the most useful tools of tyranny. We invite it into our own home every night; I'm sure that some of us think of it as a friend. That might be a horrifying notion but I'm sure there are people who think of television as perhaps one of their most intimate friends. And if the TV tells them that things in the world are a certain way, even if the evidence of their senses asserts it is not true, they'll probably believe the television set in the end. It's an alarming thought but we brought it upon ourselves. I mean, I think that television is one of the most diabolical -- in the very best sense of the word -- inventions of the past century. It has probably done more to degrade the mind and intelligence of its audience, even if they happen to be drug addicts or alcoholics; I would think that watching television has done more to limit their horizons in the long run. And it has also distorted our culture.

TV and politics have always made inevitable bedfellows, but the results have been disastrous. Look at the situation we have now. Let's say that tomorrow someone who is a political genius were to emerge -- and I'm not expecting this to happen, but say that it did. Say that a politician emerged who seemed, for once, basically competent, who seemed to be able to do their job as well as the average cab driver, comic writer or journalist. If they were the most intelligent, visionary, humane political thinker in the history of mankind, but were also fat, had some sort of blemish or something that made them less than telegenic, we would not be able to elect them. All we're able to elect are these telegenic, photogenic crypto-Nazis. As long as they look good. I suppose it's too early to go into my rant on Ronald Reagan? That would be tasteless.

Red Req'd Salon Link

Q&A: Former Novell CTO Alan Nugent on
his move to CA

Q&A: Former Novell CTO Alan Nugent on
his move to CA 03/24/2005 07:44 PM
Alan Nugent, who is slated on April 8 to become senior vice president and general manager of the Unicenter business unit at Computer Associates, spoke today with Computerworld about his plans.

a fitting tribute to alan turing

a fitting tribute to alan turing 06/24/2004 02:49 PM
no good mind goes unpunished

Alan Cox on How Linux Can Survive
Without Linus

Alan Cox on How Linux Can Survive
Without Linus 03/31/2005 05:35 PM
Slashdot Mar 31 2005 10:14PM GMT

Alan Turing, the Inventor of Software

Alan Turing, the Inventor of Software 05/11/2004 09:16 AM

Manchester honours Alan Turing

Manchester honours Alan Turing 06/07/2004 08:58 AM
The Register Jun 7 2004 12:46PM GMT

Bush Renominates Alan Greenspan for Fed
(AP)

Bush Renominates Alan Greenspan for Fed
(AP) 05/18/2004 01:28 PM
AP - President Bush renominated Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve on Tuesday, praising his leadership and sending a strong signal of stability to financial markets.

PHP Magazine: Alan Knowles on XML_XUL

PHP Magazine: Alan Knowles on XML_XUL 07/26/2004 08:44 AM
In a link from PHP Magazine:

Alan Kay Receives ACM Turing Award

Alan Kay Receives ACM Turing Award 04/22/2004 10:43 AM

Alan Kay Decries the State of Computing

Alan Kay Decries the State of Computing 07/13/2004 09:03 AM

Folklorist Alan Dundes dead at 70

Folklorist Alan Dundes dead at 70 04/01/2005 02:22 PM
Alan Dundes dies while teaching. The world-renowned folklorist, 70, tackled everything from religion to po litical jokes with an infectious enthusiam that endeared him to students, academics, and laymen alike. Dundes was often contacted by reporters looking for scholarly explanations of popular culture. His warmth and humor shined through in his speech to UC Berkeley's Class of 2002, characteristically full of wise words and wisecracks. Those wishing to share thoughts and memories of Prof. Dundes can do so at this forum.

XSS Vulnerabilities in Alan Ward Acart

XSS Vulnerabilities in Alan Ward Acart 12/04/2003 01:17 PM
parag0d_at_phreaker.net (Dec 03 2003)

Bush renominates Alan Greenspan for Fed

Bush renominates Alan Greenspan for Fed 05/18/2004 02:50 PM

Alan Knowles' Blog: require_once as
Documentation

Alan Knowles' Blog: require_once as
Documentation 03/29/2005 08:51 AM
Alan Knowles has a new post on his blog today with a little "pet peeve" of several of the developers out there - the use of assumed includes in frameworks, causing problems down the road.

Alan Knowles' Blog: PHP as a Template
Engine?

Alan Knowles' Blog: PHP as a Template
Engine? 04/05/2005 09:18 AM
Over on his blog today, Alan Knowles asks one of the major issues in the PHP community - PHP as a template engine, or recipe for disaster?

XSS vulnerabilities in register.asp in
Alan Ward Acart

XSS vulnerabilities in register.asp in
Alan Ward Acart 12/04/2003 01:17 PM
parag0d_at_phreaker.net (Dec 03 2003)

Alan Knowles' Blog: require_once
Optimization

Alan Knowles' Blog: require_once
Optimization 03/19/2005 03:26 AM
In yet another new posting from Alan Knowles's blog today, he asks the question: "Is require_once, one optimization too many?".

The Moderate Voice: Alan Keyes Strikes
Again

The Moderate Voice: Alan Keyes Strikes
Again 09/08/2004 08:53 AM
Jesus wouldn't vote for his Democratic opponent .. yet another Keyes story

themoderatevoice.typepad.com/blog/2004/09/alan_keyes_stri.html
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Alan Newell Assesses HCI and the Health
of the Discipline

Alan Newell Assesses HCI and the Health
of the Discipline 01/09/2003 05:20 AM

Comedian, Actor Alan King Dies at Age 76
(AP)

Comedian, Actor Alan King Dies at Age 76
(AP) 05/09/2004 03:45 PM
AP - Alan King, whose tirades against everyday suburban life grew into a long comedy career in nightclubs and television that he later expanded to Broadway and character roles in movies, died Sunday at the age of 76.

Alan Knowles' Blog: Is __autoload Evil?

Alan Knowles' Blog: Is __autoload Evil? 03/19/2005 03:26 AM
Alan Knowles has a new posting over on his blog about something that I really haeven't seen much discussion on - is __autoload evil?.

Alan King, Comic With Chutzpah, Dies at
76

Alan King, Comic With Chutzpah, Dies at
76 05/09/2004 10:39 PM
Alan King parlayed his Borscht Belt sense of humor and a big appetite for the limelight into a thoroughgoing show business career that lasted more than half a century.

Alan Knowles' Blog: DBDO First Release

Alan Knowles' Blog: DBDO First Release 04/19/2005 08:44 AM
Alan Knowles has a new post today on his blog about a major step forward in the database realm for PHP - DBDO has finally made it to a state where it can be released.
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