Seems there is an experimental CurveCP implementation in Chromium trunk. "Keep your expectations low, we're just playing around. Still mega-buggy."

The Disco Project is pretty interesting. They made a release a few days ago that included OCaml workers.

Icelanders have rejected the latest plan to repay the UK and Netherlands for costs incurred when the country's banking system collapsed. Partial referendum results show 58% voting no, and 42% supporting the plan.

More than 10,000 people have died in the Japanese tsunami and the survivors are cold and hungry. But the media concentrate on nuclear radiation from which no-one has died - and is unlikely to.

As before, deaths per TWh by energy sources, nicely visualised. Just to hammer that home.

Rooftop solar power "more dangerous than Chernobyl". Personally, I wish people were less trigger-happy when it comes to demonising anything related to nuclear power. Here's another nice article, entitled "Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power: Build more reactors now!"

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

Most American adults wake around 6 ot 7 in the morning. Get to work at 8 or 9. Knock off around 5. Home again, 6-ish. Fifty weeks a year. For about 45 years.

The first CurveCP implementation, incorporated into the Networking and Cryptography library (NaCl), entered public alpha testing on 21 February 2011. CurveCP software isn't ready for users yet but is ready for experimentation and development by interested programmers.

Ragel compiles executable finite state machines from regular languages.

This release includes a rewrite of the GUI library, amongst other things. Pretty nice.

Egyptian president stands down and hands over power to the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces.

Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services.

Here, have two summaries: 1, 2. Interesting paper, I think.

David Cameron says 'state multiculturalism' has failed and left young Muslims vulnerable to radicalisation.

From Google: Contracts for Java enables you to write annotate your code with contracts in the form of preconditions, postconditions and invariants.

Current status: completed successfully.

What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation.

A key creative breakthrough occurred when Emory mathematicians Ken Ono, left, and Zach Kent were hiking. As they walked, they noticed patterns in clumps of trees and began thinking about what it would be like to "walk" amid partition numbers.

So that's finally done.

A rather interesting essay, I think.

Italy has banned plastic bags for environmental reasons.

Yule and NYE holidays: most excellent. Home early however, due to unfortunate circumstances mostly outside my control. I need another adventure.

Police horses are remarkable in that they are the only animal to have reproductive organs on their back.

Train & bus from Slovenia to Czech Republic today. Too much sitting.

"Unencrypted public access wireless networks are an unbelievably harmful technology devised with no regard for the operation of the modern web - and they tend to introduce far more problems than immediately apparent."

Theo de Raadt has a well known flaw in his "human relations stack", though whether that was placed there by the US government remains unknown.

    -- rolloffle

"Things got a bit out of hand and we'd had a few drinks. We smashed the place up and Boris set fire to the toilets."

 - David Cameron, Oxford University, June 7 1986

"Drink more, think less."

Hardangerfjord - Norheimsund