2/27/2006

Pondering The Polychromatic Piscean

Uncle AndrewUncle Andrew
Filed under: @ 12:07 pm

Shawn and his daughter spent yesterday afternoon baking and decorating some cookies. She’s been on something of an oceanic kick lately (pirates, octopuses, that sort of thing) so all the cookies had a sea-creature theme going. One specimen in particular caught my eye:

Fish!

I asked her what kind of fish it was, but she wasn’t sure. I thought about it for a second, and then it hit me.

“Why, of course,” I said, “It’s a Jackson Pollock!”

My, I amuse myself.

Useful Gmail Hack

Uncle AndrewUncle Andrew
Filed under: @ 9:17 am

For those Gmail users among my readership (you two know who you are), a cool little tip to make your Gmail webmail transactions secure, thanks to Linux Activist.

Instead of typing “http://mail.google.com” into your Web browser, type “https://mail.google.com” (add an “s” after “http”). This gives you access to Gmail’s Secure Sockets Layer, which means that your transactions will be encrypted against casual and more-than-casual snooping.

If you do a lot of your Gmail at public hotspots or over a neighbor’s unsecured access point, or if you’re simply healthily paranoid, you might want to take advantage of this unpublished feature.


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