Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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Which D&D Character Are You?
I Am A: Chaotic Neutral Elf Mage Druid
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral characters are unstable, and frequently insane. They believe in disorder first and foremost, and will thus strive for that disorder in everything they do. This means that they will do whatever seems 'fun' or 'novel' at any given time.
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Nightmare Day, Part Two
The horror continues:
1. Still no fix for Andromeda. SmartData's web site is currently a temporary holding page I knocked up, and everybody's e-mails come to my desktop to be sorted and delivered to them by hand. The hosting provider still hasnt gotten back to me with anything but excuses, despite my calling them every hour … -
Nightmare Day, Part One
1. Andromeda (Smartdata's main online server) goes down, taking our web site and e-mail with it.
2. The hosts are slow and arsey and aren't much help at all. "I can ping it," says one. "Yes, well I can ping it too," I reply, coldly, "But apart from that, it doesn't seem to have any purpose … -
Kittens Are Cute
Kittens are immensely cute. See below.
That aside, and now I've gotten the attention of all of you, I'm not going to write about kittens at all. As those of you who read Abnib (or otherwise read both Bryn and my blog), we had a little kerfuffle yesterday about the Welsh language. I thought I'd probably … -
SmartData On BBC News Online
From an article on the BBC:
SmartData UK aims to create software and database solutions.
Company spokesman Gareth Hopkins said: "The move to Technium Aberystwyth has facilitated an expansion of the company and we believe this opportunity will open up a whole range of possibilities.
"The package offered by the Technium will assist us in creating more jobs … -
ATOM Feed Of Your GMail Inbox?
Checking my GMail account this morning, I noticed an unusual icon in the lower-right corner of the browser window:
It turns out that Google's GMail service seems to be testing an ATOM feed - a kind of syndication feed (similar to those used by weblogs and news sites - see Scatmania's ATOM feed) that can be … -
Security Engineering
A secure password does not make a system secure. No password - in fact, no authentication system - is entirely bulletproof. The key when designing a password-based access system, and choosing passwords, is to balance an equation. You must make the effort required to crack the password more valuable than the data the password protects. …
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TromaNightAdventure!
I've finished TromaNightAdventure, a WikiGame on RockMonkey. It's at version 0.9, so far, because there's still a few things I'd like to do with it (like add a "hints" page, for example!). But nonetheless, if you're a Troma Night fan, you ought to go play it!
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Windows XP SP1 Honeypot Breached In 200 Seconds
The internet is becoming a scarier and scarier place.
In a recent "honeypot" study, a Windows XP computer with Service Pack 1 was infiltrated in just 200 seconds, without even opening a web browser.
For the less techie-minded, a "honeypot" study involves setting up a new PC with a new operating system (in this case, a Windows … -
Blogspam A Problem… No More
As I've mentioned in previous posts, I've been getting more than my fair share of blogspam of late. I've been spending about twenty minutes every three or so days clearing out the 'moderation' queue and updating my keyword lists. Worse still, some spam has been getting through nonetheless (hopefully I've always been quick to remove …
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More Letters After My Name
News of the day: (here I go, flooding you all with lots of small posts), I'm now Daniel Huntley BEng(Hons) MBCS, 'cos I'm now a member of the British Computer Society. Not quite sure whether or not this is a good thing, yet, but hey.
Hmm... they'll be sending me my membership card seperately from my … -
Popularity Of The Welsh Language
<ROFLMAO>
Want a giggle? Go to Google and type "old dead language" into the search box (with or without the quotes... either way), and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky!".
This is the follow-up to my experimental googlebomb the other week. I've had my fun, now, and I actually believe it's possible (I was skeptical when I first read … -
Somebody Writes Of Half-Life 2
Somebody on slashdot writes of Half-Life 2:
Doom 3 tried to generate atmosphere through the lack of light and the monster placement that was obviously designed to scare you. After a while it degenerated into one big black scare job to me, and wasn't very interesting as a result.
On the other hand, I felt that … -
Tell Me About Your Heterosexuality
Rediscovered this online - some questions for the heterosexual:
What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
When and how did you first decide that you were a heterosexual?
Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase that you will grow out of?
Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems … -
Weekend
I seem to spend most of my time on this blog posting retrospectively about what I did on any given weekend. Will try to spice things up with a little more thought and debateworthy stuff in the future - I've got some ideas. In any case:
Friday was Andy's gig - not as good as the …