On a bit of a RSS trip here aren’t we? 😀 Anyway, this is something I came across a few weeks back and it’s been bugging me ever since. Since everyone likes a stroke (and I’m no exception) – I have subscribed to the feed for comments on my photos …
I made a brief mention about the feed-reader I’ve settled on in my earlier blog post, but decided to spend a little more time fleshing out my impressions of GreatNews. By default, GreatNews starts up with a two-pane interface Each of the folders is called a “Channel” and provides a …
While I like to think I’m ahead of the curve on Internet trends and memes, in terms of actual adoption – I can be quite the luddite. And so it is that despite the fact that I read a number of blogs (( But I haven’t updated my blogroll to …
Well the blog was offline for a long long time – we had some major problems with the hard drives on the weblogs.us servers and the whole setup had to be taken offline. Finally up and running up again now and everything seems to be in place – many many …
For a brief, glorious 15 minutes today, I achieved a version of Geek Nirvana – an Inbox that was completely empty. No, I don’t mean everything unread – I mean empty. Not one single email in it. And of course, 2 minutes later, I had a flurry of email (sigh).
Result = del.icio.us (Yes I know bad pun, but I couldn’t resist!). Old west Mythbusters | Ask MetaFilter So Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame – and one of my favourite shows on TV) is a longtime member of MetaFilter. Running short of ideas for a new episode; he decided to …
WordPress Blog » WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2 [via MetaFilter] Apparently, crackers managed to break into a WordPress server and add malicious code to the 2.1.1 build of WordPress that allows for remote PHP execution. This is probably one of the most sophisticated types of security attacks – embedding …
Yes it’s horribly geeky to actually read patch release notes, but then that’s what I am :). Anyway, the latest patch for Supreme Commander had a very interesting note – The copy-protection check that the game had shipped with has now been disabled. Freaking awesome! If there’s one thing that …
Well for a long time now, I’ve been using del.icio.us as a means of blogging the various articles I read on the web. I would add a bookmark in delicious and every night, the links would appear in my blog along with my tags and descriptions – all very neat. …
Not quite sure how, but I wound up on a page on Wikipedia listing unusual deaths through the ages. Right at the bottom the entry for 2007 included an item for Kevin Rose – apparently he “died” choking on holiday-themed beer. By the time I refreshed the page the entry …