Tag: technology
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AbNib, Version 1.1
I've taken a step towards fixing AbNib. It now works correctly with Alec and Andy's LiveJournals, and loads significantly quicker by not updating the live-feed of everybody's journals at the same time. Yay. Also, have swopped out Claire (who was never updating her blog anyway) for Bryn, a proper Welshman: give him a read!
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Bluejacking
Both The Register and the BBC have stories today on bluejacking - that is, the practice of sending unsolicited messages to open Bluetooth relay points, typically mobile phones. There's even a web site dedicated to bluejacking.
One of my personal favourites is the cinema. It's fun to fire off pictures of fridge magnet letters with my … -
Penbryn Residence
My new web site, Penbryn Residence (the sequel to the immensely popular Penbryn Hall web site I set up several years back) is now under development. And I've made a link to it here so that Google starts picking it up. <wink>
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Growing Up
I've done so much this last week, but I'll get around to that later.
This is a special message for all of you who are using Windows Messenger (a.k.a. Microsoft Messenger (a.k.a. MSN Messenger)). It's just a summary of all the reasons you shouldn't be, and why you should be using ICQ instead. If you're an … -
At Long Last
Yet again I was correct. The BBC just released this article on Verisign.
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VeriSign Gets Sued
VeriSign's controversial abuse of the domain name system on Monday led to the first lawsuit against them, today, as reported by SlashDot. In addition, today's UserFriendly cartoon, too, takes the piss out of them.
In other geeky news, did you know that it's now possible to get broadband internet on a Commodore 64. It takes all … -
Sheep
Outside my office window is a large field, which several months ago was divided into three smaller fields, each of which was planted with a different mixture of grass and some other leafy plant. Yesterday, half a dozen sheep with large numbers sprayed onto their flanks were moved into each of these partitions. This morning, …
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VeriSign Kicking Up Yet More Of A Fuss
Still no word from BBC News on the bastards that VeriSign are being, but The Register are on to their second news report on the subject, and SlashDot have information about the technological "fight back". What does a person have to do to keep their state news agency up to date these days?
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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 … -
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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Pathetic Motorways
I kid you not - there's a web site dedicated to the pathetic motorways of the United Kingdom, with reasons why they've been nominated as pathetic, photographs, maps, and the history of each road. Perhaps the oddest site you'll see all day.
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The Most Terrifying Thing A Web Developer Will Ever See
Want to see something quite terrifying: DHTML Lemmings. I kid you not - this is scary shit, particularly when you realise that it's all being done client-side, using script, over the web: no Flash, no Applets, no ActiveX <spits> - just pure unadulterated CSS and JavaScript. I got scared.