gyrmination

A trip up to Mugecuo (木格措) lake today. Reading a smattering of news, an interview with John Gilmore on groklaw, increasing engagement between North Korea and many countries in spite of hard line isolation from the US, thinking about online security and the possible compromises existing in message digest algorithms, one time pads (OTP), IBM […]

In Chengdu. Chinese people have a big problem, and that is that they don’t listen; they’ve got preconceptions about so much and are convinced that they are well-educated simply because they’ve read lots of books, and some kind of denial mechanism kicks in when their firmly-held beliefs are controverted. Victor said that the Nepalese and […]