Saturday, October 13, 2007 My latest Ma.gnolia bookmarks The truth about traffic on the Internet « Scobleizer ThinkGeek :: Wi-Fi Detector Shirt Glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength International disgrace at the WCG Grand Finals Korean Starcraft players match-fixing. Russians cheating. Norwegian Counter-Strike players urinating on the stairs. Chinese guys threatening Taiwanese kids. It’s just [...]
Thursday, October 11, 2007 With all the lovely apps you can get on a Mac, I still find it hard to believe that nobody has made a feedreader that is really nice to use. NetNewsWire Lite has failed me for the last time. I hope that Vienna does not let me down. What do the rest of ye Mac [...]
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 My latest Ma.gnolia bookmarks na Fianna vs +forward Irish team “Na Fianna” easily beat +forward in the European Quake League. Python Magazine – first issue free October issue is free as a PDF A very professional lottery 419 na Fianna vs Drastic Collision na Fianna easily defeat the Czech team Drastic Collision View all my [...]
After all the coverage that Eircom got over their security problems, Irish Broadband have attempted to capitalise on the situation with this press release: “Irish Broadband routers are totally secure”. I don’t know whether they are trying to lure any confused/misguided Eircom customers to switch providers, or whether this is an attempt to console their [...]
Was over in London for the FOWA. I’ve been to London a few times in the past couple of years, but still can’t get over what an insanely expensive city that is. Breakfast in the hotel, for a basic fry: £21! That’s €30 or $43. Future of Web Apps conference was on in the Docklands, [...]
My latest Ma.gnolia bookmarks UT3 System Requirements Released Unreal Tournament 3 first person shooter game to be released in November 2007. The system requirements are not very demanding. Schneier on Security: The Storm Worm Nigerian ’419′ e-mail scammers targeted in 80 arrests around the world Kartrider Open Beta A colourful, free, kart racing game that [...]
Saturday, October 6, 2007 Conor O’Neill has these tickets up for grabs for the Web2Expo in Berlin. This is the deal; the Irish (or Ireland-based) blogger who makes the best suggestion for an original Web Application with an Irish focus will win the tickets. Well Conor, as much as I’d love to go to Germany for that conference, if [...]
Thursday, October 4, 2007 My latest Ma.gnolia bookmarks Golden MacBook Pro – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) ARP attack to CISRT.org – C.I.S.R.T. – Chinese Internet Security Response Team (GMT +0800) Chinese Internet Security Response Team (GMT +0800) Artist gets probation for building secret mall apartment – Boing Boing Dvorak Uncensored » Why It’s Time To Buy Apple Stock? [...]
In the two days since I posted about the security flaw in Eircom broadband routers’ default configuration, coverage has spiraled to the front page of the Irish Times and elsewhere. In the words of a former roadie for Metallica: “new shit has come to light, man”. Bart got a reply from Eircom. I am surprised [...]
Today, Monster.com have taken one step closer to their goal: becoming responsible for all the spam on the internet. They spammed just about every internet user in Cork (except me, hehehe). Tom Raftery has the details: Monster steals email addresses and spams it@cork membership. It was not too long ago – 2 months? – that [...]