Tag: technology
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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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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 … -
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 … -
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 … -
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 … -
An Interview With Gary McKinnon
Dan recommends listening to an interview with Gary McKinnon via BBC World Service.
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This Looks Promising
Hmm... my blog works. On it's new host.
This looks promising.
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No2ID: The Musical!
An introduction to ID cards for fans of Gilbert & Sullivan.
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Robotic Bins And Benches
Singing Benches Let Loose In City, writes the BBC. Just plain weird, say I.
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KnightmareWikiGame
My upcoming RockMonkey WikiGame is set to impress, I hope: I'm aiming for the most adventurous WikiGame ever created. There's a screenshot available of the kind of thing I've got working so far. Probably a few weeks from completion, though.
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Big.McLargeHuge Lives
Nobody on Earth, not even Gareth, knows or understands what happened to cause the server problems on Big.McLargeHuge yesterday, but, as usual, everybody's blaming me. My apologies to everybody who was inconvenienced by the problems. It's amazing how much damage can be caused by a MySQL server going down... almost all the sites on McLargeHuge …
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How To Sell May Ball Tickets
Every year the Students Union here in Aberystwyth puts on the May Ball, an excuse to dress up and party if ever I saw one, for students. For the last few years this has been held on-campus, in the Arts Centre, Students Union, and the concourse in-between the two. Live music and shows, dancing, and …
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GMail Accounts
People have asked me for GMail invites again, but one of these people's @aber.ac.uk e-mail address doesn't seem to be working, says GMail, so here are some "ready to pick up":
Invite 1 (used) Invite 2 (used) Invite 3 (used) Invite 4 (used) Invite 5 Invite 6 Invite 7 Invite 8 Invite 9 Invite 10 … -
Hollywood Pizza And BT Online Billing
If only BT.com online billing provided an XML feed... we could integrate our Hollywood Pizza order call times and lengths into the Troma Night web site.
Probably not a good thing, actually.