Today is my birthday. I am now N years old. You can work out N from the following: N is a prime number; The last time my age was a prime was six years ago (i.e N-6 is prime and no other numbers between N-6 and N are prime); N is not a member of… (read more)

I bought an Eee. (For those of you who have been living on a different planet for the last six months, or are technologically-challenged, the EeePCs are Really Small Laptops That Are Really Cheap. And for those of you who know about the full range, I got the 701 4GB Black version) Good points: Cost… (read more)

Oops It was revealed yesterday that there has been a great big security hole in the Debian-distributed SSL code, introduced in late 2006. This ill-advised Debian modification meant that all SSH and SSL keys were insufficiently random (the change removed part of the random seeding which normally takes place). This means that instead of there… (read more)