Year: 2005
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OpenID And Scatmania
Over the last few weeks I've playing playing with an exciting new technology known as OpenID. Do you remember Microsoft Passport and it's opposite number, Liberty Alliance? Well; we all know that these services weren't all they cracked up to be. They claimed to be "distributed log-on services", but in actual fact they were centralised …
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Bush On ‘Intelligent Design’
Bush approves of 'Intelligent Design', we hear, a theory that's gaining popularity amongst some Christian groups as a competitive scientific approach to the theory of natural selection. It specifies that while evolution has occured, it was guided by an intelligent force.
But the thing that it's fans repeatedly fail to notice is that it isn't a … -
The Knights Of Gaerog
Chapter I: The Knights Of Gaerog
Once upon a time, long ago, there was a large and sprawling kingdom with a great number of citizens, spread across a country of rolling hills and open flatland: the kingdom of Academia. The kingdom of Academia, which had for a long time been untroubled by war or famine, dedicated … -
Peekaboom!
This game is so much fun: Peekaboom!
You are paired up with a random other player. For each round, one of you is a "peeker" and the other is "booming". The boomer has a photograph in front of them and a word that associates with it (e.g. "balls", "men", "cooking", "elephant"). They can click on parts … -
Suzannaless
Well; apparently our new year in industry person, Suzanna, won't be working for us after all. She called up this morning to say that she had accepted a placement elsewhere.
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Nia’s Back
Nia, the Technium receptionist who became badly injured after falling from Constitution Hill over six months ago, is on her feet again and well enough to come back to work. She'd only just started a permanent contract with the Technium when she sustained her injury, and now she's back.
Minus a few physical changes (weight loss; … -
Microsoft SQL Server Versus FTP
This is a geeky post. You have been warned.
Microsoft SQL Server is one of those funky advanced database management systems that supports replication. One of even fewer that supports merge replication - where data edited and updated at two separate databases can be merged on a schedule and the changes reproduced at both ends, and … -
Cold Dead Badge
Those who (for reasons of their own) enjoyed the cold dead fingers wallpaper I produced a week ago are invited to buy, if they wish, a Cold Dead Fingers badge!
£1 to anybody who wants one. All proceeds will be donated to a local volunteer-run nocturnal telephone listening service. 14 available. The box is by my … -
Abnib v2.2
Abnib now supports "feed hiding" of the "community" feeds (RockMonkey, Troma Night, Gallery). Just click the "hide feed" link at the bottom of a post of the type you don't want to see. This feature by demand of Jon.
In other news, Blue Dragon is proving somewhat popular, with 7 registered players (plus me, but I … -
Notting Hill’s Passenger Warning
This photograph taken using a camera phone in Notting Hill station, London.
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Legend Of The… Blue Dragon
Following up my thoughts earlier about old-school online games, I did some investigation into what became of fab old games like Legend Of The Red Dragon. It turns out that there was an effort to revive this particular one as a web-based game called "Legend Of The Green Dragon". Well; as it was open-source I …
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What Is A Door And Why Do I Care
Geeky post with little value to most people: ignore if you don't want to learn a little about the history of the BBS, "Doors", and the subculture around them. This post is written for folks like Ruth, who seemed interested, and others, who seemed possibly-interested.
Before about 1994, even the few of us who had been … -
Another Meme!
Don't you hate those tried-and-tested "quiz" memes and things. Well, here's a variation on the theme.
1. Post this meme to your weblog or journal.
2. Stick a nail bomb in a rucksack.
3. Blow yourself up on a London bus two weeks after I do.
"These aren't suicide bombers - they're just cry-for-help bombers!"
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An Interview With Gary McKinnon
Dan recommends listening to an interview with Gary McKinnon via BBC World Service.
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Thai, Catan, And Gantz
Claire and I cooked thai food for Ruth, JTA, and Bryn last night. Paul, too, but owing to a communications breakdown he didn't know about it, so he missed out. Unable to decide between making a sweet red Thai chilli and a black bean dish, I decided to make both, which immediately compounded into a …