HTML We Can Two killer presentations from Eric Bidelman: The Edge of HTML 5 and What’s New in HTML5 Media Fan This week I installed Sensu on our servers. Sensu is a modern-day Nagios, if Nagios was …
When I think of oversharing, I think of self-pitying status updates that can at least garner schadenfreude. But this information is useless, much like non-alcoholic …
We hereby declare 2012 as the Year of the WordPress Meetup. You’ll want to get in on this action. meet·up \mēt-əp\ noun A meeting, especially a regular meeting of people who share a …
It’s funny how things change. Last December, our Glorious Leader, Dane Enda gave a State of the Nation speech. One thing he was definite about – it was not the People who caused the financial crisis. …
“Millions of cancer carers missing out on benefits“ I shall overlook, on this occasion, the oxymoron of the Telegraph headline – they go on to say that 5% of the 1.1 million cancer sufferers in the UK …
The ECHR is not an appeal court in the way the Supreme Court is. Appeals procedures in both criminal and civil justice systems ensure that only the most significant and relevant cases, those likely to …
Via Lynne over at Counting Cats, this dreadful story. At least it is dreadful for anyone who takes photographs. The idea of an image of a red London bus set against a monochrome background is fairly …
I am appealing to my Irish readers. Well, that’s not strictly true as the vast majority of you are not living here [lucky sods], so most Irish don’t find me appealing. Anyway, this is for the few who …
The Labour Party has clasped the clitorally vulnerable victim-hood of the Feministas to its bosom and bitterly resents any attempt to portray an ideologically opposed female as representing ‘Feminism’ …
It’s interesting that today, Bucko is discussing dress codes and Disney has announced that it is relaxing its rule regarding facial hair. Dress codes are something that I tend to take an interest in, …
I have to carry two phones; one for G-stuff, which is often unreleased software running on unreleased hardware, and another for my personal life. For the last few months, the G-phone has been a Galaxy …
The Morning Advertiser's big splash yesterday detailed how CAMRA were condemning the government for their treatment of 'community pubs'. I tweeted it thus.
When the Data Protection Ombudsman opens his mail in the morning. If you’re reading this news article using your O2 mobile phone, you’ll be pleased to know that O2 have already sent me your mobile …
What kind of fucking eejit wants to give away money needlessly? Apparently the Irish do. Today our gubmint is parting with €1.25bn to gamblers without any compulsion to do so. Yup – €1,250,000,000 …
Quite apart from the absurdity of the legislation now passed in Los Angeles regarding porn actors being required to use condoms – not to mention the usual bansturbator desire to save us from …
The Guardian asks which do you trust less? Unsurprisingly, a majority of the Guardian’s respondents trust business less. It’s a silly question, really – not least because it is a “have you stopped …
‘Shisha Bar Danger’ screeches the Birmingham Mail, helpfully regurgitating the misinformation in the 2009 BBC post which explained that Shisha smoking was ’100 times more dangerous than cigarettes’ – …
Earlier this month, I blogged about monitoring password-guessing attacks on a server, via a patched OpenSSH. This experiment has now been running for just over two weeks, and there are som …
My fellow travellers remind me why I’m more of a classical liberal than a libertarian. Take a look at the comments thread of this piece by the Quiet Man over at OoL. As to the point he is making, …
The little Ps just received another valuable life lesson, that being the rigid refusal of the public sector to embrace common sense. What's more, it has made yours truly seem like I possess the …
Though it may not understand the business yet, Silicon Valley is newly determined to take Hollywood out, and to use games to do it. Opportunity knocks.
There is a historical precedent for the current uproar concerning – according to your political leaning – either ‘benefit scroungers’ or the ‘deserving poor’, and that is the position of conscientious …
It’s an interesting concept. An organisation whose primary aim is supposed to be the health and welfare of the nation is forcing smokers not just to leave hospital buildings but is now forcing them …
The threat, bluster and economic warfare now being mobilised against Iran by the West is delighting both the Sunni dominated middle east and Wahabbi Saudi Arabia. To get the west to go to war against …
I'm happy to announce that Lightning 1.1 has been released. If you were having trouble with alarms then you will want to upgrade to Thunderbird 9 (or Seamonkey 2.6) and Lightning 1.1. If you are …
I like to play a game sometimes, it goes like this: Take a current hot and screwed-up software methodology and try to project what its replacement is going to be. For instance, the shiny bits of Scrum …
Due to a critical issue that some Windows XP users are experiencing, we have decided to release Lightning 1.1.1, an intermediate release compatible with Thunderbird 9/Seamonkey 2.6. We recommend all …
Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the …
Every so often I end up arguing with somebody who claims that I am addressing “straw men” positions. They claim that I am arguing against positions that would never be held by anyone who could be …
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