Category Archives: Software

in the entire world is unfailingly funny about computers. Continue reading →

Really: just when I am maddened to a frenzy by vile, stupid and aggressively user-hostile bits of pseudo-Linux like PuTTY, I found a new, smooth firewall, endorsed by the Register. What a change. This turned out to be vile, stupid, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Is, I hope, finally being built here. Think of it as Ecco v5. I think I may actually join the design list to see what they are thinking of. Continue reading →

IE doesn’t do tabbed windows, keyboard control, or security. Opera does those three, but not proper DOM, so lots of otherwise valid DHTML won’t work and I have to type in all the code for this blog by hand even … Continue reading → Continue reading →

has just been sort-of-released. It’s full of features, but I want fixes. Printing directly to PDF is a whole lot less urgent than being able to search with wildcards, or paragraphs in the search expressions. Even fixing the bug where … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Arts&Letters, in the wake of the collapse of Lingua Franca, apparently. All that is left of the empire are a few sticky notes. Continue reading →

You know the bombadier beetle? I just (god forgive me) stumbled through Slashdot onto the mental equivalent: a brain containing two forms of repulsive bigotry which, when they meet, Continue reading →

Remeber when the Melissa virus swept the world.? I was writing a column for the New Statesman then, and it was hard to disguise the humiliation I felt when I didn’t get a copy. But it’s OK. The first Bugbear … Continue reading → Continue reading →

But their sickness isn’t obvious. Continue reading →

Because they always end up worshipping lawless power (and also becasue they’re arrogant little pricks). So Declan McCullough’s PR for the Cato Institute is a reliable source of irritaiton. Most recently, he found an economist to argue that Linux was … Continue reading → Continue reading →