Monthly Archives: March 2005

I’ve decided that most people have 1024×768 screens now so I’m going to a four column layout here. It’ll be messy until I finish, sorry.

I came across a great history of events at Viruslist.com, it’s well worth a read and I’ve added it to my links.

Well, Apple don’t appear to want me to export my work as an MP3 from either Garageband or iTunes. Come on guys, why not?

Apple just released an update to fix a large handful of issues, one of which tackles phishing.

Apple’s OSX appears to be taking a hit with Symantec’s threat report indicating that threats targetting this platform could be an issue. There are several ZDNet articles and Fran Foo has a good commentary here. Having worked in IT security … Continue reading →

I read somewhere that the Apple iPod halo theory may actually be happening and that Apple are on their way to 5% share of the desktop. As Microsoft move towards it’s goal of greater interoperability this must surely increase OSX … Continue reading →

The Register reports that Britain (is that just Britain or does it really include Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?) has more than 25% of the worlds installed ‘zombie’ PC’s. It’s good to see that Australia isn’t in the top ten.

I’ve just read an interesting article titled What price for ‘trusted PC security’? by Bill Thompson on the BBC’s web site. He raises some interesting points about trusted computing and digital rights management. I’d add that while secure, trustworthy computing … Continue reading →

If anyone knows how to post images and text by email using Textpattern please contact me using this form with details. Thanks.

A web site that has lot of ‘unofficial’ Microsoft things that you can look at. All unsupported of course.

I was surprised to see a Microsoft web site advertising the fact that it’s been made Firefox friendly! Look center screen for ‘Now in new Firefox flavor!’

I was Googling today when they threw and error at me!

I was going to get the rss and atom feeds setup for each section, but instead I’ve totally re-worked all me Sections and Categories, and then gone thru’ all of the articles and tagged them correctley. I also wrote a … Continue reading →

I’ve added ‘catch all’ news feeds for the site and made them Firefox Live Bookmarks for those that use Firefox. I’ll split out some channels based on my sections soon.

I decided to follow the crowd and update my site so it had a graphic as a header. This is a trimmed version of a picture I took in September 2004 in my home town of Maidstone in the UK. … Continue reading →

Well, I’ve spent most of the day experimenting with Textpattern and I think I’ve finally (almost) got to grips with it. I may have to go thru and rename some sections and set categories up properly now.