Category Archives: nördig

I wonder if anyone has analysed the extent to which spam shapes the internet. In particular, I am thinking about the way that we have to trade off a degree of privacy to get effective protection. Google has excellent spam … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There is a very simple bit of javascript which will steal and display your entire Gmail contact list if you run it when are logged into Gmail. I have just tested it here, and got back a list of 103 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My laptop runs windows XP, which none of the other computers in the house do – why should they upgrade? — and is also set to collect automatic security fixes. So this morning it asked whether it should upgrade to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

When I got back last night, one of the four fans which seem to be needed to run a quiet computer was making a hidous graunching noise. I really hate that kind of thing when I am trying to work, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You know that impulse to have a quick game of freecell now and then? Well, here is a man who yields to it. To be precise, he claims to have played the first 32,000 games in sequence four times over, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have for some time been frustrated that I could not access stories in the New York Times from home. I could reach the front page, but every time I tried to read individual stories, I would get an HTTP … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A friend of mine, a very well-connected professor of computer sciences — he knows who he is, and so, if he’s right, do the CIA, the FBI, and so on — writes about the Google piece last week: Had only … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sometimes1 a message with a malformed attachment will crash Opera hard, and all subsequent attempts to restart will also be aborted by a crash. This should not happen to a mail program. Also, a mail program should have a better … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, it turns out that all the people Tom Morris, who commented on my troubles with a mac minis was right, and that I could without too much trouble open up a mac mini. There are only eleven screws and … Continue reading → Continue reading →