Here in Darkest Somerset, watching the world go by as I await the arrival of battlekitty and pplfichi ( and a few others from the Bethnal Green Aikido club ), I saw the barmaid testing a £20 note with one of those fancy marker pens that detect a fake note ( Read more... )

Looks like blogging on the move is over for the foreseeable future, as the iPhone can no longer connect to the web using 3G: my guess is that 02's 3G gateway is down again. It isn't the first time, it won't be the last, and I have no way of knowing when service will be restored ( Read more... )

Interesting snippets can be found by following links with Ross Anderson's name attached, especially those that lead you to his research group at Cambridge. Last night I stumbled upon this: A technical paper from the cryptographic gentlemen of Cambridge about social vectors in viral propagation. The authors are George Daneziz and Mike Bond, who ( Read more... )

I've been reading BoingBoing - surely the worst time-sink on the Web - and came across an article The Top 10 "Top 10 iPhone Flaws" lists.

Seriously, you could start your own 'Top 10 things I hate' list on the Safari mobile browser, all on its own, and be well into double figures on the bugs and design flaws inside ten minutes.
So... ( Top ten things I hate about the Safari browser on the iPhone... )

A question for serious SQL Geeks... Reporting edits to a record. ( cut for extreme geekiness... )

Why would Internet Explorer 6 (or 7) always open two windows, one of them blank, when following a link with a right-click for 'Open in New Window'?

Be imaginative.

An interesting post from Simont: he's been musing on the peculiar set of skills and aptitudes required to be a programmer. Desire, obviously; but also willpower, perfectionism, method and memory. He mentioned design and, in my usual way, my comment expanded (or distended) to a fairly long and rambling rant about design and it's handmaiden: analysis. ( So here it rambles and rolls... )

( How was your day at work, dear husband? )

This is a fairly reliable method for recovering VBA from corrupted workbooks, and it runs in all versions of Excel from 97 onwards. ( Of interest to Excel geeks ONLY! You have been warned. )

Be warned, this is geeky ( Read more... )