Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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UserFriendly And VeriSign
Today's UserFriendly cartoon strip plays on the issue highlighted by yesterday's entry about VeriSign trying to take over the Internet. Really - the geeks are up in arms.
Still no word from BBC News, but the following other agencies have picked up on the story:
"VeriSign redirects error pages" from C|Net News
"VeriSign slammed for helping spammers" from … -
Egobot
Try this fantastic PHP tool for extracting information from the Google search engine. Quite simplistic, but infinitely cool.
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Smart Alex
Alex, my incompetent co-worker, came up with the following gem in today's meeting when talking about a product that would aid employers in securely tracking how long their employees actually spend working:
"It's not going to have any of that... security... nonsense."
I shall have to beat him to death later.
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VeriSign Adds Wildcards To TLDs
I am outraged.
VeriSign, the company which manages the .COM and .NET domain names, has done the unthinkable. They've taken advantage of and abused their power by setting up a wildcard filter on the primary DNS, pointing to their own server - sitefinder.verisign.com.
Now for those of you who are less technically-inclined, this basically means that every … -
Ding! Fries Are Done!
Here's to Paul, who's now working at Burger King Aberystwyth.
Especially for him, please click here and listen to "Ding! The Remix!". [download removed]
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Cyberethics Of Artificial Intelligence Slavery
Claire drove me to work this morning. We had a fascinating discussion on the way, on Cyberethics Of Artificial Intelligence Slavery. Cool.
This morning I gave a tour of the office to our new interviewee, Phil, who for some reason I keep trying to call Chris. If he gets the job, he'll be working full-time as … -
Caution: Bridge Out Ahead
Amused me this morning:
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And while you're on the ball, go play Slacker and Slacker 2. Both fun and funky, if you like that sort of thing. -
Second Place
I came second in the Cymru Prosper Wales "Enterprising Student" competition, which earned me £100, this morning. Pretty much made my late night and early morning worthwhile. Now I'm back at the office. Needed to come in this afternoon to deploy a new version of a piece of software to a client.
Think I pissed Claire … -
Daddy, Why Did We Have To Attack Iraq
Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
Because they had weapons of mass destruction.
But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
That's because the Iraqis were hiding them.
And that's why we invaded Iraq?
Yep. Invasions always work better than inspections.
But after we invaded them, we STILL didn't find any weapons of mass destruction, did we?
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Amazon Embraces The Religious Divide
In these interesting times, as acts of terrorism committed in the name of religion become more commonplace, I was delighted that Amazon would give me the following suggestion:
AltAmazon - Perfect Partner: Buy Qu'ran and The Holy Bible today!
I might just click on the button, just so I feel that I've done my bit. See also … -
Quacks Do Echo, Thank You Very Much
At long last, I feel justified! As a long-time arguer (as much out of reason as playing devil's advocate) that a duck's quack should make an echo just like any other sound, recent research reported by the BBC demonstrates the fallacy of the widely-accepted myth!
In other news, it looks like my suggestion to Paul to … -
Early
Like Kit, I woke up surprisingly early. Then decided to go back to sleep and as such will now be late for work. Ah well.
Need to get ready for a presentation I have to give at the Park Hall Hotel tomorrow as my contribution to the Cymru Prosper Wales scheme, which funds small businesses in … -
Cool Shit Of The Week
I've just realised that I haven't shared with you this week any of the cool shit I've come across on the internet while I should have been working! This won't do...
Here's a heap of crap for all of you who like origami.< Have you downloaded a copy of NaDa, a revolutionary new piece of software … -
Bovini: A Week Well-Spent
It's been a busy week. I've spent a lot of my time at the office, trying to get the replication model for Bovini working - causing much stress as it failed time and time again. For those of you without a grounding in computer science theory, replication is the art of making data be identical …
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Which Dictator Are You?
I am Genghis Khan, apparently.
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With a deadly penchant for other people's wife's [sic] and total disregard for human life you are a Genghis Khan. Cruel, fearsome and merciless, you can create and lead a powerful civilisation. Psychos will hero-worship you, others will just be glad never to meet you on an 'off' day.
Which Dictator …