I would be most grateful if people who know things about computers and security would read the following account of something that just happened and give me some advice ( Read more... )

100 Historical Things, Number 14

On Friday, I did my very best to take part in a conference remotely. The conference was on the theme of Multiple Mediterranean Realities - Spaces, Resources and Connectivity, and was held at the Ruhr Universitaet, Bochum, Germany. To open the meeting up to the wider community, they decided to stream it live and ( Read more... )

Just to let you know, I've now set all anonymous comments to screen automatically. I'll unscreen and reply to anything genuine and non-troll-like of course, but this way other people commenting my my journal can't be trolled.

This struck me as interesting:

"Death 2.0: What Becomes of Digital Assets after Death?"

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Yesterday LJ was very slow and hardly worked properly at all.

Today my profile says I have no friends (though I am still 'friend of' all the people who have friended me). And yet when I loved my f'list there are people on it.

Hmph.

Still have no internet access. AOL's narrowband network has been down since Tuesday evening! And the latest news: it won't be back on for the next two days (at least, I gather). Arrrrghh ( Read more... )

Is there any reason why it would be a bad idea to get mobile broadband? I'm thinking of one of the T-Mobile deals here. In particular, this one grabs me, since I'm commitment-shy ( Read more... )

Poll The Dreamwidth Poll

Further comments in comments, if you wish. But I wasn't after a big discussion, just a quick straw poll.

Yes, I'm officially in love with Hermes (webmail, that is - Cam people will know about this, others just need to know that it's the university's email service ( Read more... )

134) You're getting on with things, and it goes 'ping' (or in the case of a baby, 'waaaa'), and you just drop everything to go and check on it.

:)