I needed a one-way method of generating a unique key for each subject name that would not permit the reverse process, of working out the name for a given key: something known as a βone-way hash keyβ.
Category Archive: Life
Calendars, Mathematica, and the Mac: a curious but productive union.
Even though images of you may not be as sought after as those of celebrities, we all need to sharpen up our Cloud security.
For reasons known only to Microsoft, Word will never tell you that your document is too tough for a 17 year-old to read.
Whichever country they occur in, mass killings and school shootings chill us all to the bone. Although limited […]
Ellen Altfest paints the real world, a morsel at a time. Her paintings are both very modern and deeply traditional, and absolutely magnificent.
Models used so far to explain viral events lack explanatory or predictive value. It is time to turn to Catastrophe Theory.
It’s as primitive as a dominant stag roaring and grunting from the top of the tump during the rut, and all too often as drunk with testosterone.
How many of this summer’s new graduates will find that their workplace expects silent submission, and stifles the real benefits of lifelong learning?
I still think of those who died in the Falklands War, and of Tony Tyler, one of the wittiest and most perceptive of the contributors to MacUser. We miss them.
