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Bloxsom and targeted comments
Looks like Blosxom sites are being targeted by people with comment-posting ‘bots, in response to postings with specific subject line keywords. [www.crypticide.com] [www.crypticide.com] Time to poke around in the code a little…
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Global Terror?
Incidentally: [news.bbc.co.uk] Tony Blair has defended proposals to allow UK terror suspects to be placed under house arrest by ministers without their cases going to court. The prime minister said the measures were needed to fight global terror. “…to fight global terror”? Could someone please remind me: how much internment was authorised in the 70’s…
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Jailed for using a “nonstandard” browser?
Via DME: compare and contrast the following reports, which both apparently relate to the same event: [news.bbc.co.uk] Tsunami fund ‘hacking’ is probed An attempt to hack into the website of the Disasters and Emergency Committee (DEC) that was set up after the Asian tsunami, is being investigated. Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Computer Crime Unit…
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The Law, West of Ealing Broadway
Via [coppersblog.blogspot.com] we find a Magistraite’s (Amer: “JP’s”) Courtroom Blog: [thelawwestofealingbroadway.blogspot.com] Apocrypha (2) If you are facing a short prison sentence, try to get sent down for seven days on Maundy Thursday. You see, remission is one half, and three-and-a-half days is rounded down to three. Good Friday is a Bank Holiday when prisons do…
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Confused by L10N ? I18N ? G11N ? A11Y ?
I encountered a new contraction last night: G11N, or “Globalisation’, in the IT sense. Darren Moffat provided the following explanation: L10N, I18N, G11N, A11Y are all separate things. L10N is the act of translation of messages from one language to another I18N is the act of making the code be able to use l10n G11N…
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Vehicle Recalls
Got a car? Want to know if a recall has been made on it? See: [www.vosa.gov.uk]
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…anonymous proxies for doing competitive intelligence…
As an author interestingly cited by Robert Scoble, Dana Epp writes the following: Yesterday in class I was telling students about the benefits of utilizing anonymous proxies for doing competitive intelligence and surfing to questionable sites […] Oh? Really?
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Start of an Affair
It transpired that they were both South African expats, living in the same Surrey town, not far from each other; she was tall, athletic, ash-blonde – but with dark roots – and a PA/Exec in the City with a beauty spot above one lip. He was similarly tall, a brown and slightly wavy-haired David McCallum-esque…
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Apple, cf: BMW
Geoff Arnold writes: Like many Mac users, I’ve dismissed talk of Apple’s miniscule share of the personal computer market by (a) pointing out that many of those PCs are just glorified 3270s/VT100s/Wang word processors/cash registers, and (b) invoking the “BMW argument”: what market share does BMW have – and does that stop them from being…
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TechBlog.biz
So you… Mine various RSS feeds… Reformat the articles… Run an aggregator around them with fat piles of Google adverts… Call it a business model. Pah. [www.techblog.biz]
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Regarding the ASCII imap client…
…from the inestimable Dave Edmondson (who is beginning to understand my mindset far too well) I received this suggestion which verges upon practical retrocomputing: [nail.sourceforge.net] nail, an enhanced mailx command Nail is a mail user agent for Unix systems. Highlights are: * Derived from Berkeley Mail 8.1. An interface like the original Berkeley one is…
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‘Evil twin’ fear for wireless net
Bah! My colleague Rob, and I, set one of these up at USENIX Security in Washington DC, a couple of years ago; two Apple laptops and a piece of Cat-5. Easy… [news.bbc.co.uk] ‘Evil twin’ fear for wireless net People using wireless high-speed net (wi-fi) are being warned about fake hotspots, or access points. The latest…