Category: tech

I’m not very happy with my online photo album. I’ve been thinking of rewriting it for some time. But then I saw that a lot of people had started using Flickr so I’m going to give that a try instead. Seems pretty good. Has all sorts of RSS/Atom goodness built in. And I can email… Continue reading Flickr

One of the best things about text on the web is the way you can link to other stuff. When I’m writing here I always try to link words and phrases to more in depth explaination or examples. Mainstream news sites like the BBC (see, there’s an example) don’t do that. The BBC often have… Continue reading BBC News/Wikipedia Mashup

The Guardian have released a number of new RSS feeds. I think that these are probably based on some work I did when I was working there at the end of last year. If that’s the case, then it will be easy for them to add new feeds for any of their special report sections.… Continue reading Guardian RSS Feeds

I’m a bit slow here. This all happened a week ago. It seems that someone at the Odeon web site has a bit of a clue after all. There is now a version of the site which works on all browsers. You still can’t book tickets tho’ and you can’t access most of the info… Continue reading Odeon Progress

Sims playing Sims :-)

Today the Evening Standard gave away a CD that contained some standard audio tracks together with some extra tracks which were controlled by a Digital Rights Management tool called “4Play” (because you can play the tracls four times before you need to buy them). Obviously, I assumed that this was never going to work on… Continue reading Evening Standard and DRM

And while we’re talking about birthdays and anniversaries, CEEFAX is 30 tomorrow.

If you’re running Windows and you are connected to the internet and you aren’t taking security precautions then your PC could easily be one of the 30,000 PCs that are hijacked every day for the purposes of spreading viruses and sending spam. Microsoft has a page of advice on how to cut down the danger.… Continue reading PC Hijacking

If you’re on Windows and you’re still using Internet Explorer as your browser then you really need to take a look at Firefox instead. Since the latest version was released there have been over a million downloads (that’s in about four days, the developers were aiming to reach that target in ten days!) What have… Continue reading Firefox

I usually put stuff about Perl in my Perl blog but this is so cool that it deserves a wider audience. Alex explains how he programs Perl life on stage and gets his computer to turn the program into dance music in real time. I’ve seen him do it. It’s very impressive. More details on… Continue reading Hacking Perl in Nightclubs