Category Archives: Software

I dont know if I like this redesign. but Ben Hammersley told me, when we were watching otters in Florence, that he was paying his hosting bills with Google ads, so I thought I would try them. Also, putting ads … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We’re smart people. We assume that there is a huge maze of difficulty to be negotiated when we’re trying to get from the superficial appearances to an understanding of how something works; we also assume that, given time and help … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have noticed recently that a high proportion of the spam that makes it through Spamassassin is duplicated. Between a quarter and a third on any given day will be exact copies of the same message. I imagine this is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

do any readers understand javascript? I have an irritating problem with the bookmarklet for Furl, which looks like a pretty useful service: it does two things that Opera’s notes don’t do — makes whole saved pages searchable, and makes them … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Engineers can see at once that something labelled the LC52C LA-DC52C is likely to be vitally different from an almost identical piece of plastic called the LC52D LA-DC52D. Shop assistants can’t. That’s why I’m expecting a new camera to take … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Software inefficiency can always outpace Moore’s Law. — Jaron Lanier, quoted in Scott Rosenberg’s column today. This is one reason why I don’t tend to buy software, and,when I do buy it, it never runs faster than the thing it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have had to re-reconfigure the wireless network on my return from Jerusalem, since the hotel I was in didn’t use any WEP encryption on their network. I can never remember how to generate a WEP key and there seems … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I mean this in a very precise and technical sense. The other day I was complaining that there is no spam detection software that could distinguish random nonsense — quite a lot of the spam I now get has a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Now that my radio programme is finally done (it will go out on December 28) I find it hard to return to normal life. So I have been poking around the records of my mailbox at Cornerhost. Since the middle … Continue reading → Continue reading →