I’ve just installed the AuthImage anti-spam plugin for Wordpress. Seems to work a treat. This should cut down on the amount of comment spam I recieve (it was getting pretty annoying). I was hoping it wasn’t going to come to this, but it did.
One minor correction to the docs: They say that shell access is [...]
This evening I came home to this.
Looks like some friend of humanity decided to take a crowbar to our front window. They managed to get the frame open a crack, but then the glass broke and fell inwards. I guess they must have thought this was all too hard so they left without taking anything. [...]
So I’m watching an episode of John Saffran vs. God.
Apparently many houses in Melbourne have a plaque on the front to “recognise the [I forget] people as the original owners of this land.” In his show, Saffran takes some aboriginal folk around to one of the home to have a chat with the residents. Hilarity [...]
[Damn houseguests. They make you drink gallons of wine and keep you away from your blog. But anyway, where was I? Oh yes.]
Not that I go looking for this sort of thing, but I have seen some really bad “top N” lists of various flavours about the place, despite the best efforts of people like [...]
Thanks to Chris (no, not that one, or that one either!), who pointed me to Robert McHenry’s criticism of Wikipedia, entitled the Faith-based Encyclopedia.
Firstly a general thought, not related to McHenry’s article specifically: The word “encyclopedia” carries with it associations of authority, fairness, accuracy, comprehensivity and so on that the wikipedia can’t always live up [...]
My wife gave me a very profound compliment the other day when she said that I reminded her of Mr Darcy from Pride and Predjudice. We had just been drinking lots of red wine and watching Bridget Jones’ Diary, so I expect she had Colin Firth in mind. Or maybe Laurence Olivier? I’m chuffed either [...]
Ars Technica reports that Microsoft is developing their own equivalent to Google Desktop Search. Thankfully, it’s based on a technology they bought, called Lookout, and not the horrendous search “Companion” feature of XP (pictured).
The interesting bit to me is the fact that they bought this crucial OS component rather than built it into Windows.
I [...]
Mac vs. Windows? Java vs. C#? Linux vs. BSD? Perl vs. Python? IE vs. Firefox? vi vs. emacs?
Fugeddaboudit. Real Nerds fight religious wars over source control systems. In my experience no subject is more likely to get a decent debate going amongst a group of developers than code reviews. And after that, source code control.
So [...]
So if blindly pressing the capture button on your camera-equipped PDA whilst driving counts as Moblogging, then count me in.
There is a mural on the railway viaduct that runs alongside The Cresent at Annandale in Sydney. It (the mural) has been there for as long as I can remember. It has gotten a bit tired [...]
Consider the following (my emphasis):
As of this writing (only a few days before the election) we believe that the chances of a definitive “call” for who will be the president by 2 am Eastern Time is a 50/50 chance at best.
To me, this is saying that the person doesn’t know (or isn’t saying) the odds [...]
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