Category: Internet

So I’m late in the day. But I read about Bit Torrents recently, and finally got around to getting them working at home this weekend. Consequently I’m a couple of episodes ahead of the rest of the country with 24 (well it’ll be one episode after tonight’s is aired). Today’s actually been very frustrating, with…

The Guardian has an interview with Iraqi blogger, Salam Pax.

Day three and I’m up to 99 items!

Today’s total after full cleaning – 68. Can I break 200 by the end of the week?

I’m running a bit of an experiment this week, checking to see how much Spam I get in the course of a week. I’m now using a superb program called POPfile to sort my spam from genuine mail. The user just has to identify some early mail, differentiating between spam and genuine mail, and it…

A bit strong I suppose, but that’s how I feel at the moment, lacking internet access. There’s some kind of problem at the BT exchanges – well a couple of hundred of them anyway. Demon are ever so coyly not naming names, but it’s evidently BT’s fault. The fault seems to have been around since…

A fantastic new website is putting Pepys Diary on the net in the form of a blog, posting it on a day by day basis. The really clever part of this proposition (which might take ten years to complete at a day by day rate) is that readers can annotate the entries themselves to help…

Just had the shock of my life. I went to Amazon and because of cookies and what not, it knew who I was. Nothing unusual there. And knowing who I was, it tried to recommend stuff to me. Fine. I have no objection to this. And what was number one? Freddy Got Fingered!!!! Possibly the…

Cyber Terrorism is the new buzzword. It’s what we should all be scared of. If even The Observer is publishing scare stories about this new threat to world safety then we know we’re in trouble. Let’s get a couple of things straight: hacking into government websites is a bit like letting loose with a spraycan…

Yup. Some more site tweaks now sees my last five books and films handily available to read. All thanks to the FilterCategories plugin.

Still haven’t got this site’s look sorted yet. I printed out all of the Webmonkey tutorial but there’s a bit more to it than just knowing how it works. Will persevere.

Some ever so slight changes to the site today, because I’m very proud, that I’ve finally gotten around to learning a little bit about style sheets. You see, those nice people at Movabletype run the whole system from them, which makes it hard for a complete novice like me to adapt the site to suit…