I have to say, he's pretty great. His explanation of Heartbleed was extremely helpful.

Paras, I'm pretty sure you are the one who introduced me to xkcd comics. After all these years, I'd like to say thanks. There have been some pretty amazing things in the frames.

.. ... And the one they had recently with the fill-in-the-blank/choose-your-own-adventure strip was pretty awesome too.

Specs

update: My 'everybody's name ends in N' pool team has 40 points.

Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo has three points thus far in the playoffs. I am happy, but I am not pinning my hopes on him - not like in years past where he and a host of Oilers (YEARS AGO) gave me the winning pool score. Of my 20 player team of people whose names end in "n", Nathan MacKinnon (double N!) has given me the most points: 7 (6 assists, pretty awesome rookie year), and Brendan Gallagher has 5 points.

So as long as Montreal and Colorado stay in, I'm set. i.e. shit.

Hey Par,

As per your comment about Bruce Arthur: I totally agree. He's one of my favourite journalist-types to read (and follow on Twitter).

And yes, Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo is who I'm cheering for... mostly 'cause I picked him first in my family's hockey pool, so he'd better pull through. I employed a new method of player selection: names ending in N. We'll see how it works.

Specs

Figured as much. I don't wear my tinfoil hat that often but what else do they know that is harmful and not telling joe public about?

As we feared, NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years:

The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said.

Specs