Electric Alchemy: Cracking Passwords in the Cloud: Breaking PGP on EC2 with EDPR - interesting article about brute-force cracking of passwords using dynamic instances on Amazon EC2. Particularly interesting is the second part with the analysis of the costs of this solution depending on password complexity and length. 8-character passwords (even with special characters and numbers) are definitely no longer up-to-date for really sensitive data.
Archive 3. November 2009
Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Search - interesting project: Haystack. An extension of Django to add full-text search with an interface very similar to the normal Django database interface.
Parsing JSON in Arc - nothing world-shattering new, just parser combinators, but you don't see Arc code very often, the Lisp dialect by Paul Graham.
Why do we have an IMG element? - Mark Pilgrim buddelt in HTML-Geschichte.