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Something spammy this way comes
Thanks to Armin, I’ve discovered that spam links seem to be appearing in hidden links on this blog (they’re visible in the RSS feed). I’ve found two on this page and zapped them both. The only culprit I can think of is an SEO plugin I installed today, so I’ve deactivated it. Can you let…
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Return of the son of ID cards
An excellent post by Mr Eugenides: If you want to know what’s really happening… you watch the hands. So never mind the cards; it’s all about the database. It’s always been all about the database. Don’t watch the cards. Watch the hands.
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Blacksite? Blackshite, more like
I bought the Xbox game Blacksite (no, not at full price – are you mad? Fifteen quid from Amazon Marketplace) to find out whether it really was as bad as the reviews suggested. It isn’t. It’s worse. It’s not the bad voice acting, the soulless regurgitation of every first-person shooter cliche, the lazy respawning enemies…
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iPhone gets proper Exchange integration
Bad news for Blackberry and Windows Mobile, by the looks of it. According to Phil Schiller, big firms wanted the moon on a stick: Push email. Great calendar integration – pushed to them over the air all day long. Push contacts. Global address lists. Additional VPN types, including Cisco IPsec VPN. Two-factor authentication, certificates and…
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There’s something wrong with this swan story
About 200 years ago, I blogged about a Sun story claiming that asylum seekers were coming over here and eating our swans. The short version? It was bollocks. But it’s back! Back! BACK! From the Daily Mail: Immigrant was cooking swan surrounded by the bodies of slaughtered birds Blimey. In a squalid makeshift campsite by…
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Insanely expensive speaker cable isn’t any better than a coat hanger
There’s a nice post on Consumerist about those expensive high-end speaker cables that will apparently transform your stereo’s sound: Seven different songs were played, each time heard with the speaker hooked up to Monster Cables, and the other time, hooked up to coat hanger wire. Nobody could determine which was the Monster Cable and which…
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Blogs and suicide
An excellent post by MetaFilter user Miko on the story that an ad executive was driven to suicide by blogs: There’s no ‘brain condom’ you can put on when you use the internet — (or take a job, or walk into the world) — that will protect you from nasty words. Fortunately for most of…
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The war on cheese
A report commissioned by the Food Standards Agency suggests that cigarette-style warnings on dairy products could prevent all kinds of horrible deaths. The FSA says that reports are “overblown”, but doesn’t actually rule the idea out. So it’s going to happen, then.
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Ronnie strikes again
The gorgeous, talented (he says) Ronnie Brown is revamping the blog design, and I reckon it’s great – but right this second there’s a positioning issue that means the design is perfect on Windows and a wee bit off on the Mac. It’ll be sorted asap.
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Vacuum cleaners suck, but some suck more than others
Not strictly a technology post, I know, but hey! The world needs more vacuum cleaner buying advice! I’ve got a thing about vacuum cleaners – not in a Nicky Wire “Hoover obsession” kind of way, but in a “I’ve got a black dog, light carpets, doing the stairs is my job and it makes me…