Dropsafe

Re: DropSafe Server Problems People are having problems accessing my weblog and I’m not surprised; you see I rent server space on HostRocket who’ve generally been very good about support issues. At the moment what we’re faced with is the fact that someone else on the server is using MySQL as backing store for their

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Response to an e-mail I received: >And everyone give someone you love a hug, just because you can love is… knowing your cat will lacerate you if you hug it, but doing it anyway… …oh wait, no, that’s “masochism”, isn’t it?

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Something that’s vexed me for a while, which I finally decided to compute: UK mpg US mpg km/l l/100km 5.00 4.17 1.77 56.50 10.00 8.33 3.54 28.25 15.00 12.50 5.31 18.83 20.00 16.67 7.08 14.12 25.00 20.83 8.85 11.30 30.00 25.00 10.62 9.42 35.00 29.17 12.39 8.07 40.00 33.33 14.16 7.06 45.00 37.50 15.93 6.28

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[blogs.sun.com] Dutch biometric passports cracked, ID info stealable It’s as well that there is lively debate on this subject, from a technical standpoint as well as the more expected civil liberties folk… The Dutch passport, one of the first to include “biometric” information which can be read digitally in accordance with new internatiomal legislation, has

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Geoff pointed me at [www.boingboing.net] which takes me thence to [www.ridingsun.com] I swung by the 2006 Tokyo Fuel Cell Expo yesterday, where I saw the ENV motorcycle from Intelligent Energy: [www.envbike.com] I blogged about the ENV previously here. Its expected price is somewhere below $10,000. According to a company representative I spoke to, it should

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Edit/Synopsis: A bug exists in the code that Google uses to enforce censorship of its recently announced Chinese service; the trivial bug – that search-strings with Capitalised Words generate uncensored output – could provide a (presumably temporary) mechanism for Chinese nationals to bypass their government censorship. Simon Phipps just messaged me: (window grabs added infix

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Something I stumbled over when Googling :- [www.bragg.army.mil]

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Here we go again: [www.theregister.co.uk] Home Office pushes tough anti-hacker law ‘Hacker tool’ ban proposal provokes derision The UK Government plans to toughen up computer crime laws under proposals outlined in the Police and Justice Bill on Wednesday. The bill would double the maximum jail sentence for hacking into computer systems from five years to

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I took the trike home last Friday; Simon offered the use of his Landy as transport, but before loading it up we decided to “have a go” in the car-park; Simon’s a bit shorter than me and had to scootch forwards in the seat, but it still makes for a good picture:

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Pop quiz: right now, as you read this, how many chronometers or devices with chronometric functions have you that you carry with you for most of a business day? eg: iPod, cellphone, watch, PDA, laptop, digicamera…? I’m down to three – phone, digicamera (IXUS 700 has a clock mode) and iPod – and on the

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Barking, barking mad… If the controversial Analog Hole bill makes it into law, US technologists will have to obey a law whose most important details are a trade-secret. The entertainment industry, always a bastion of media savvy, has proposed its “A-Hole” bill as a legal means of limiting the conversion of analog music and video

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I went into London yesterday, and disembarked as usual at Waterloo; amongst the crowd I followed across the platform was a woman – perhaps late 20s/early 30s, wearing bovver-boots, jeans rolled-up to a romper stomper mid-calf, jacket, and an overly-severe dyed-black bob. Over her shoulder was a small plastic rucksack upon the flap of which

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