the harvesting of a thousand blueberries begins with a single bush

well, at least two bushes, if one wants decent yields.

they're not planted yet, tho. while i completed round one of pH adjustment, i haven't checked to see what pH the soil settled at. (oddly, while the local water is somewhat acid, it's a very weak acid; using RO water changed the colorimetry only a little.) i also need to get peat moss, since the soil in the back bed isn't as good as i thought. oh, it's a nice brown color, but what i have in the other beds is almost black, so i should add more organic matter to it. (blueberries' roots lack root hairs, so they need to have a lot of organics in the ground to avoid drying out.)

i did get all the annuals planted, tho, so they're no longer muttering darkly when i pass them. 'course, now that i planted them, the weather disservice has posted another frost warning. :P

they're so *cute* when they're naive

Tor traffic disguised as Skype video calls to fool repressive governments, which is what it says on the label.

i imagine it will be pretty useful at annoying the less-sophisticated censors for a while, but since the explicit target of the underlying paper (PDF) is the great firewall of china, i think it will fail at its design goal. the fundamental problems with the tool are the naive assumptions made about state censors in general, and china in specific.

( silly privacy geeks, kind and gentle assumptions are for kids )