Apps come bundled with secret Bitcoin mining programs, paper over the practice with EULAs – Boing Boing flip.it/uJkkL

Love the iPad mini retina that my sweet wife bought me for my birthday. The retina and iPad Air are great, but the mini is now my favorite.

Christmas tree is up. Given how chaotic Thanksgiving weekend has been, we put up the shortest tree ever in this house: an even 10 feet.

Yay! David has finished and submitted his application to the Culinary Institute of America (CIA).

I am officially ready for winter; the snowblower has been started and still runs.

Looking forward to Airshow, Boston next week with @asymco, Horace Dediu. Can’t wait to learn data cinematicism and how to use it in my work.

I love this takedown of financial analyst speak, especially the parts about earnings and expectations. businessinsider.com/29-dumb-things…

Snow has started falling in Boston. Going to be an interesting travel week.

I think the purge of BBRY’s C*Os is a mistake. BBRY needs time for business development, not executive searches. allthingsd.com/20131125/black…

Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman invented the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, a fundamental building block for public key cryptography.