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Category Archives: Net stories
In which I pose on a stack of amps
But you’ll have to click This link to see it. A curious piece of domain name squatting. I have linked to a copy of the original page, so as not to reward the bastards with clicks. How did my name … Continue reading → Continue reading →
security horrors
Trillian, IE, and Firefox all turn out to be vulnerable to nasty attacks which will take some months to fix. I was particularly horrified by the fact that the authors have encoded an entire Google page into an URL — … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Unfortunate google
I can’t remember why I wanted to look up the term “sausage fest” though it certainly wasn’t because I am reading The Line of Beauty. In any case I may have found an instance where someone — in this case … Continue reading → Continue reading →
This has to happen to someone
Google desktop comes with a pop-up notifier for new mail, as does Thunderbird. I assume that other programs do too. These are not like the old-fashioned biff-ish ones, which simply showed you had mail of some sort. They pop up … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Proper blogging will resume tomorrow
In the meantime, here is the most completely outrageous EULA clause I have ever seen, from the download manager for the Bill Graham website mentioned last week: Concert Vault may change the EULA, and Terms of Use by posting a … Continue reading →
Dreaming of Sweden and stranger things.
One title liked by Granta for my new book is Dreaming of Sweden. Does this explain why, one recent morning, I said in an authoritative tone, as if soothing a nervous diner, We have boiled Lapps; we have stuffed Lapps … Continue reading → Continue reading →
It had (haved?) to come
LOLCODE is a much better language than Ruby, and so we need to work hard to make LOLCODE ON MONORAIL the standard web development language! For a stunning example of what can be done with this almost completely natural language, … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Sodding lolcats
I hate these things, but they are infesting the internet at the moment. Rupert sent me the atheists’ version. Ponder Stibbins has a link to some physics lolcat slogans, I am disappointed that no one there had done the obvious … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Low thieves
My sister discovered last week she had had her Switch card cloned; at least her details had been used to buy £1500’s worth of goods in a week, none of which she had ordered. We know quite a lot about … Continue reading → Continue reading →
An oddity of Wikipedia
Every now and then, when wading through the swamp that is Wikipaedia, one comes on a tussock of firm ground: something clearly written and well-argued, if a little stilted, which does not leave a methanous smell as you pull your … Continue reading → Continue reading →