l33t h4xx0r

Because of my usual circle of friends I sometimes forget that the world is still largely populated by people who regard computers as magical artifacts of a most mysterious nature. This was demonstrated recently when I was at a clients site. Everyone in this company is really Not Technical. They were having a problem with… Continue reading l33t h4xx0r

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World Wide Web

Sometimes I wonder if people really realise what “WWW” stands for. Surely “world wide” implies that everyone should be able to access your site. Not just people who use one particular browser on one particular operating system. The one particular browser is, of course, Internet Explorer and the one particular operating system is Windows. In… Continue reading World Wide Web

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Racist Helping Racist

Jean Marie Le Pen, the leader of the French Front National, is apparently in UK where he will address members of the British National Party. Isn’t the idea of two nationalist and racist parties from different countries working together more than a little ironic?

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50 Books

I’ve just seen that on Live Journal there’s a community called 50bookchallenge. The idea is to try to read 50 books in 2004. Weird to think that there are people who would find reading 50 books in a year to be a challenge.

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New Job

It seems I have a new job. From Tuesday 5th May I’ll be a Senior Perl Programmer working for Outcome Technologies. If I go a bit quiet it’s because I’m a lot busier :)

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Craig Shergold Film

While browsing my digital program guide today, I noticed that at at 18;50 this evening Sky Movies 6 is showing The Miracle of the Cards which is a film based on the Craig Shergold story. Looks pretty dreadful so I won’t be watching. But if you’re really bored this evening…

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