September 15, 2007 – 12:22 pm
Very odd — my web stats are showing a huge number of referrals coming via searches from http://url.com/ over the last day or so. What’s strange is that in each case, the search terms and other query parameters are identical — all that differs is the referring subdomain (e.g., my.url.com, company.url.com, no.url.com) and the claimed […]
September 5, 2007 – 5:30 pm
From IT site The Register:
Facebook users may no longer be able to hide after the website announced it is launching a service that enables anyone to view member profiles.
Except they haven’t. And it’s easy to see they haven’t. If you’re a Facebook user, there’s a huge block of text, plus an illustration, to […]
September 1, 2007 – 11:00 pm
This blog is hosted on a Site5 server, and earlier today suffered a major outage when the shared host it sits on had a severe hardware problem.
Thankfully, that problem was rectified with the technical team’s usual good speed. Everybody’s home directories had to be restored from an earlier backup, but this blog is so low […]
August 25, 2007 – 7:03 am
Via John Gruber, it emerges that Sun Microsystems is going to change its stock ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA.
Now, the four-letter stock symbol is predominantly a Wall Street thing, although many (if not all?) London stocks have a similar alphanumeric code that can be used in US-based portfolio checkers (the London stocks ending with […]
August 22, 2007 – 10:05 am
Some words of wisdom from Tinu Abayomi-Paul on how to measure the value of a Facebook friend:
…Facebook Friends aren’t All necessarily friends, not in the American sense of the word.
They’re people you know. But Facebook calls them friends and I like to treat them that way until such a […]
August 20, 2007 – 4:36 pm
This comment piece on PC Pro’s website by Barry Collins gets some of the points about social networking spot on. In particular, it understands that Friends Reunited — which, for a while, was one of the biggest sites in the UK — now looks like more of a dinosaur:
Friends Reunited — once the […]
February 22, 2007 – 4:11 pm
In my personal blogging, I seem to have hit a low point recently. After weeks where I’ve been busy at work, but doing nothing that was really worth talking about, I’m now in a position where I’m doing interesting stuff, but even busier, so I have even less time to talk about it even if […]
January 4, 2007 – 6:59 pm
I’m still working on the Rails application that was the source for this tutorial — which loads of developers who I really respect keep linking to, so I must have done something right there!
Anyway, I’m going to blog this bit of code in the hope that it will help me remember it.
As stated before, I […]
September 27, 2006 – 7:30 pm
One of the reasons I distrust the new version of iTunes (see Why I hate iTunes 7) is the utter uselessness of its new Library structure. In particular, its new Audiobooks category seems to be locked off from any books you’ve ripped yourself. Setting the Genre type of each file to “Audiobooks” isn’t enough.
Nudged by […]
September 22, 2006 – 7:23 pm
Okay, “hate” is too strong a word — that’s the sensationalist subeditor in me, I guess. But there was something bugging me about the latest update, and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.
I knew that it wasn’t the new, drab, grey look — it wouldn’t have been my choice, admittedly; also, it’s […]