I was amused to read this article which describes how the British government have got into trouble by failing to appreciate that Microsoft Word documents contain a lot of hidden data, especially when edited by a number of different authors. If only they had read my article about Wny Microsoft Word can be bad for… (read more)
Following the news that Microsoft plan to freeze development of Internet Explorer, they have just announced that they’re stopping development Outlook Express too. This must provide an excellent opportunity for Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla Thunderbird to get their “foot in the door” as replacements for Internet Explorer and Outlook Express respectively, especially as end users… (read more)
Hurrah. There’s another Windows worm doing the rounds. When will people learn that “Microsoft Windows” and “secure” should only ever appear in the same sentence when accompanied by the word “not”. This particular bug is the so-called “Blaster” worm and affects systems running Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT4 and Windows Server 2003. There’s… (read more)
Am experimenting with an alternative hosting provider, so these pages may possibly go offline for a short while some time soon. I’ve redirected the old location for this site to the new provider for testing purposes. If you’re reading this weblog entry, then I guess it is working!
Too soddin’ hot. Apparently temperatures in London today topped 35°C – thanks, but no thanks. “I hate every single second of this weather”(Pauline Smith, BBC News Online)
I almost fell of my seat with laughter when I read this article at Slashdot, thinking it was a joke. Not so – the renegades at SCO reckon they can charge everyone with an existing Linux installation a license fee of $699, in order to help them run Linux “without violating SCO’s intellectual property rights”…. (read more)
According to Sophos, the W32/Mimail-A worm could be big. Might be due to kick off in a big way on Monday morning when everyone logs in, then again, that’s been threatened before, so maybe we’ll just have to wait and see. Then again, Sophos have issued an ’emergency alert’ about it, which is fairly uncommon…. (read more)
Parents have read the link below and were thoroughly confused as to what Mozilla is all about. Will have to install it by stealth the next time I visit, I suppose. Perhaps being shown how much better it is at dealing with popups and security/privacy than Internet Explorer will make them Mozilla Converts in no… (read more)
For what it’s worth, these web pages are rendered much better in Mozilla than in Internet Explorer – looks like there are quite a few stylesheet bugs in IE. Use Mozilla – here’s why!
Have drastically redesigned these web pages, as will be apparent. Hope people like the blue theme … shame there’s not much new content, isn’t it? Maybe there’ll be something else here soon.
