If you’re planning to embark on a phishing attack, here’s a little tip – get your text checked by a native English speaker. Here’s the text of an email I just got. IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION Since 1968 National Westminister Bank is serving its clients with the most reliable service. In Banking the most important part is… Continue reading How Not To Phish
Category: tech
Time Computers RIP
It’s obviously a shame when so many (1,500 apparently) people lose their jobs, but Time Computers going into administration is very good news in so many other ways. Time have been well-known for years for selling cheap computers that rarely work and for having the worst customer support network in the industry. They won’t be… Continue reading Time Computers RIP
New Perl Books
I noticed that the O’Reilly stand at Opentech on Saturday had a few new Perl books. I think that a couple of these books are particularly important. Over the last few years I’ve heard a lot of people saying that Perl isn’t suitable for large scale programming projects as it doesn’t constrain programmers in the… Continue reading New Perl Books
Greasemonkey Arms Race
A few random thoughts came together in a vaguely coherent form on the way home from Opentech yesterday. Allow them to share them with you. For years we’re been trying to persuade web designers to move away from nasty “tag soup” HTML and to use clean semantic markup with stylesheets to control the presentation. This… Continue reading Greasemonkey Arms Race
Opentech
Just back from Opentech, so here are a few random notes. I’ll hopefully fill in more details later. I started by listening to Danny O’Brien talking about “Living Live in Public”. Danny discussed his theory of how the geek world has a weird kind of celebrity where you can be incredibly famous to a very… Continue reading Opentech
Bad People
The people running Eyeconomy are bad people. They encourage people who have web sites to use bad practices. Take a look of their section on sub-sites. What they so innocuously call “sub-sites” are better known to the rest of the world as “pop-unders” – that is those extra windows that open underneath your existing browser… Continue reading Bad People
RSS Feeds Update
So I decided to go ahead and make the changes that I mentioned yesterday. To summarise: full.rdf is now a permanent HTTP redirect to index.rdf full.xml is now a permanent HTTP redirect to index.xml index.xml is now a permanent HTTP redirect to atom.xml Only index.rdf and atom.xml are now advertised in the metadata for this… Continue reading RSS Feeds Update
Google Moon
It’s nice that Google have set up Google Moon so you can take a closer look at the Apollo landing sites. But have you seen what happens when you zoom right in?
RSS Feeds
Anyone who was subscribed to the full.rdf or full.xml feeds from this site would have stopped getting updates for a couple of weeks. Sorry about that – I’ve fixed it all now and you should have just recieved many days worth of bloggy goodness. It’s worth pointing out that full.rdf and full.xml are both deprecated… Continue reading RSS Feeds
BBC Streams
I’ve made some pretty sweeping changes to the BBC streams page. Some of the Real Player links are now gone and there are now links to play everything in the BBC Radio Player application. You’ll notice that there are still some links to Real streams on my page. These mainly point to talk shows where… Continue reading BBC Streams