Since I got the new laptop, I've been experimenting with using Microsoft Edge, because it's been a long time since I used a Microsoft browser, and it seemed like an idea to spread the distribution of all my personal data across two evil empires rather than just handing over the lot to Google.  (I do have Firefox and Waterfox, but I use them for ( Read more... )

I need a life, apparently.


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Sometimes I listen to random music on Youtube in another tab and just see where the Youtube auto-feed thing takes me (weirdly often it takes me to Lou Reed, although often from wildly different starting points ( Read more... )

Scrolling quickly through messages telling me which IP addresses have been autoblocked on various websites that I work on, because of dodgy-looking activity over the festive season, I notice that there is a sudden upswing in Russian and Ukrainian IP addresses.  (My sites are almost all hosted in the UK, because dealing with the data wrangles of ( Read more... )

I am amused by this list of randomly generated hostnames that a server has just presented to me :

• orophin.clareassociates.com
• spock.clareassociates.com
• sneezy.clareassociates.com
• osgiliath.clareassociates.com
• malbeth.clareassociates.com

I wrote this intermittently through the day while waiting for things to transfer across the internet, half-expecting LJ to lose it, but it hasn't.  It's a bit rambling.

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The server and local PC backups are automated, of course.  But deleting them isn't, which causes me Issues ( Read more... )

I found this, with a little irony, in one of my email inboxes this morning : Why can't we read any more?It doesn't say anything new, of course, but it encapsulates a problem I've had, and so have you probably.  Email. Usenet. Web based forums. Lj.  Twitter. Facebook.   I have got  a great deal out of all of it, of course, and have learned a great ( Read more... )

Does anyone have any opinions on great museum websites that you have run across recently?  If so, what struck you as good about 'em?  I'm on the hunt for ideas.

I do like the Ashmolean one - even if I'm not 100% convinced by the slideshow, the way they get a lot of good points for the museum onto the homepage without it looking cluttered is very

http://mwf2014.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/glam-and-the-free-world/ - Cory Doctorow ( Read more... )