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Doing real harm, virtually

Script kiddies hit a new low over Easter, when they hacked the forum of the nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation to trigger a Javascript trojan and flash images at visitors.
There is little point lambasting whatever attention-deprived individual perpetrated it (they were lucky the consequences were not more serious) or fanning the wild conspiracy theorising. There will always [...]

Zemanta another look

I like to prove or disprove a point and Dans comment in my original post about Zemanta has prompted me to use Zemanta in writing a proper blog post.
I should have pointed out originally that Zemanta is in early Alpha release stage so its no where near polished, but the idea I think is great [...]

Virtual Computing for dummies.

Recently I’ve been looking at VirtualBox after a chap who used one our desks in the office was showing off using Windows XP in side his Kubuntu installation on his laptop.
I am an Ubuntu user myself and I do need to check designs on Internet Explorer 7 and I.E. 6 etc on the odd occasion [...]

Suggestive Blogging by Zemata

Source: WikipediaZemanta has launched it’s contextual content suggest tool for blogging platforms like Wordpress (which is what we use), blogger, and Typepad. (Note the Oxford comma…I’ve been reading Morse.)
It reads what you are typing and looks for relevant images from flickr and stock photograph libraries and relevant articles. It will also look at what you [...]

This is my wife

During a recent visit to one of the publishing conglomerates of Oxford I found myself slowly losing the will to live. Having failed to decide on a genre before entering the store, I swung, unenthused, from psychological thrillers to post war recounts. After a while I found myself heading not in the direction of my [...]

The office move video…

…is finally available on the homepage of our website. We quite like it.

Dear Idiot Boy,

Do you think even I would use Javascript to secure content?! Idiot boy.
It was simple to secure and NO ONE will ever know how I have done it.
MWHAHAHA
Auntie.
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Erm well I’m a bit stunned. I thought it would be something at least “clever” with cookies and javascript that was “the fix” that “secured” the iPhone version [...]

Apple causes serious grief with a Quicktime update

I’ve been playing around using my DSLR to make timelapse videos for a while now. Here’s one I did of me and some friends watching a season of 24 in real time over 24 hours (needs QuickTime). It didn’t take much web research to discover the quickest way to stich the 1000s of [...]