Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Who decided that it was OK to send a spammy mass-invitation to everyone in your addressbook by default? Allowing some web app to access my private email account is an act of trust, and it is being abused by every site that tries to dupe me into spamming my contacts. Anyone who is thinking “it’s [...]
From Techcrunch UK: The finer details of the long-awaited Skype phone announcement from mobile operator Three break this morning, but quite a lot is known already about the deal which the network hopes will revive its flagging fortunes. A mobile phone from Three will be available in UK, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, [...]
Saturday, October 27, 2007 Very big organisations tend to stick rigidly to a logical naming scheme made up of short location codes and numbers. That’s fair enough, since you need some structure when you have over a thousand servers on site. I personally would argue against it, because I have done my time as a lowly server technician at [...]
I’ve signed up for Mashup Camp, 11-12 November in Dublin. At first I couldn’t believe that this was a tech conference, because the website was so bad. I have no problem with the minimalist style of websites preferred by university professors and the like, but you’d never expect to see anything like this anywhere near [...]
Thursday, October 25, 2007 Like so many new Linux users before him, Grandad has asked the question that sets you on the road to beard, sandals, and hats with built-in propellors. The Linux I installed is called Ubuntu and it uses a thing called Grub. Where the f*ck do they get these names? Are the people who write Linux [...]
Thursday, October 25, 2007 Two weeks since Radiohead shook the earth with their release on In Rainbows. Two weeks in which the blogosphere hopped like popcorn to the funky beat of ’15 Step’. Hire professional web designers A good user experience is critical. Over on the iQ Content blog, they have outlined some of the shortcomings to the In [...]
I changed the theme a few times over the past couple of weeks. Never realised that the last one I had actually didn’t work in Internet Explorer, which probably explains why my site traffic has plummeted. I was alerted to the fact that something was wrong when I stopped getting my usual €0.05 per day [...]
My latest Ma.gnolia bookmarks Who’s Stealing Your Passwords? Global Hackers Create a New Online Crime Economy – CIO.com For the past year, the next phase of Internet crime has been unfolding through a series of innovations showing up on the Internet underground: sophisticated and frightening, with far-reaching implications and, so far, met with near-universal disregard. [...]
Thursday, October 18, 2007 The Leopard has been spotted and will be available in 8 days, 4 hours, 55 minutes from the time of writing this. Tom Raftery points to this poll on GigaOM trying to pinpoint a reason to upgrade. New Apple Mail: Like Tom, I switched to Thunderbird because Apple Mail didn’t impress me enough, despite my [...]
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 My latest Ma.gnolia bookmarks Unreal Tournament 3: Unleashed UT3 Beta released, here are some early reactions. Wikiwars visualised French mercenary Bob Denard dies The French mercenary Bob Denard, notorious for coup attempts in Africa, has died at 78, his family says. Passwords on the loose – F-Secure Weblog View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia