I noticed that the Bletchley Park museum web site’s online shop does not use SSL to protect the transactions. So I sent them a serious (but slightly tongue-in-cheek) email: I’m wondering why an organisation with a great track record of cracking codes does not deem it necessary to protect online transactions? What I mean is:… (read more)

What a monumental cock-up. Two CDs containing names, addresses, bank details and other personal information, have gone missing in transit between HM Revenue/Customs and the National Audit Office. My information is on one of those CDs and so is data belonging to many people reading this. The Questions That Must Be Asked: Why was the… (read more)

I’ve just uploaded the latest release of colordiff: colordiff 1.0.7 – you can get it at the colordiff web site. New features: support for ‘wdiff’ per-word colourising and for diffs generated by p4/perforce. That makes two releases this year, which is almost a record.

Perusing the pages of ThinkGeek, as you do, we found this: an email and wi-fi enabled photo frame. It can display photos. It can talk TCP/IP. It can connect to the internet via wireless and download the photos to display. You can email photos to it. You can point it to RSS feeds. So, here… (read more)