Now this sounds like fun. Whilst browsing BBC News, I learnt about the First Open Computer Destruction Championship. Basically, a bunch of geeks in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya set about destroying their computers in an interesting and spectacular way. The winner of the keyboard-throwing event threw his keyboard more than 40 metres. Gosh. 😯… (read more)
So this weblog doesn’t look any different, right? Right. But there’s a lot new behind the scenes. The weblog is now database-driven, rather than just being a static HTML page – I’m using the b2 weblog code, although I’ve hacked around with it a bit. This software allows comments to be enabled for each post… (read more)
Given that the W32/Gibe-F virus messages were coming in at 5 or 6 every hour, I was slightly concerned about what Being Away For Five Days would do to my email accounts. Five days worth of messages at 5 or 6 per hour makes around 5*24*5 = 600 messages. At 150K in size each, that’s… (read more)
So, the virus W32/Gibe-F is now doing the rounds. It arrives as an infected email, usually looking like a Microsoft Security announcement (they never send these sort of announcements, by the way). There’s a story about it on BBC news. I have received over 150 such virus-ridden emails since first thing yesterday – an arrival… (read more)
Spotted earlier on Slashdot: Aoccdrnig to a resaehcrer at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs… (read more)
Firstly, Hansol’s excuse. Apparently, the monitor did go out on the correct date, but the courier decided to ignore most of the address and just went to the reception desk of the hospital, rather than using the Department Name, Organisation Name and Building Name he had been given. At the main reception desk he probably… (read more)
The Hansol bloke didn’t show up today. My faith in the Inefficient Service Society has been restored.
It’s like a West End farce, honestly. What a week. What follows is only a brief outline of the main events … A couple of weeks ago, desktop computers A and B (situated in the same office) fail on the same day. On investigation the diagnosis was “System A has a dead motherboard and System… (read more)
Did a seminar/talk/thing at work last week about Mozilla stuff, mainly concentrating on the fact that I soon plan to roll out a copy of Mozilla Firebird to be the default web browser on every desktop. Interest was generally high. People liked the idea of tabbed-browsing and popup-blocking. Also did a short bit about Mozilla… (read more)
