Have you ever inherited an email address? It’s a very strange experience and it’s happened three times to me. The first time was when I worked at a small dotcom company and was given the address dave@small-dotcom.co.uk. It turned out that the same address had been used by a former employee who had left some… Continue reading Inheriting Email Addresses
Category: tech
Out of Space
I have finally managed to fill my 40GB iRiver. I got an “out of disk space” error when copying over some music this morning. They estimated that it would store 10,000 songs but I only got to 9638. That’s probably got something to do with the number of 20 minute long Yes epics on there… Continue reading Out of Space
So Close, And Yet…
Sometimes people make a real effort to follow the basic rules of bulk email only to fall at the last hurdle. I’ve just got a bulk email from Prospect (no, I’d never heard of them either, I wonder when I signed up for their mailings). As is usual with these things, they really want you… Continue reading So Close, And Yet…
BarCamp
Coo. There’s a London Barcamp this weekend. I was supposed to be in Brighton this weekend so I didn’t bother trying to get a ticket. My plans have now changed and I’ll be in London. So I thought I’d try to get a ticket. The web site said that thirty more tickets would be available… Continue reading BarCamp
When RSS Goes Bad
If you publish an RSS feed on your web site, then it’s important that it continues to work. If you accidently break it, then you could be missing out on visitors. I just happen to have an example handy. London Eating is a useful site that carries reviews of London restaurants. For example, here’s the… Continue reading When RSS Goes Bad
Blogwerx Sentinel
I’m reading Robert Scoble as I often do first think in the morning and he mentions Blogwerx Sentinel which is an application that monitors splogs to see who is copying your blog content without you knowing. It sounded interesting so I signed up. And a few seconds later I get this email: Dave Cross, Thank… Continue reading Blogwerx Sentinel
Perl Programmers in London
Judging by the number of calls and emails that I’m getting recently, the demand for Perl programmers in London is going through one of its periodic increases. Hopefully recruitment agents who are desperately googling for “perl programmer london” will find this entry and save themselves a little time. The Perl community likes to do what… Continue reading Perl Programmers in London
Incrypted with SLL
From an “Amazon” phishing mail that I’ve just received. Amazon will request personal data (password, credit card/bank numbers) only on our home site, wich is securely incrypted with SLL. See, if you don’t pay attention in your English classes, you’ll never be able to fool English speakers. Well, unless they didn’t pay attention in English… Continue reading Incrypted with SLL
Supersize Your RSS
This article in Wired points out that the consumer release of Windows Vista will almost certainly see the use of RSS reach a tipping point. Save the date: RSS will go mainstream on Jan. 30, 2007. That’s the day Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system hits retail shelves. Internet Explorer 7, the first version of Microsoft’s… Continue reading Supersize Your RSS
Telegraph Web Site
The Telegraph web site was relaunched recently and they are promoting this with an advertising campaign. I’ve seen many adverts on the escalators in tube stations. But these adverts have some very strange wording on them. They claim that the Telegraph site is “the UK’s most visited quality newspaper web site”. And there’s a logo… Continue reading Telegraph Web Site