Category Archives: General

I happened to come across this: Chocolate Russian Roulette [cybercandy uk] You get a tray with 12 pieces of chocolate. 11 of them are praline filled milk chocolate bullets, the 12 contains a real chilli pepper.

Work started on the new acid test almost as soon as the IE developer team posted notification that IE8 passes Acid2 Well, if you read the article and comments, it’s not perfectly correct. But it’s kind of funny as a … Continue reading →

Since it wasn’t obvious to me where this document was, here is a link to a Microsoft page describing Windows XP services with descriptions. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/serversecurity/tcg/tcgch07n.mspx There is also a similar document for Windows 2000 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742605.aspx

Interesting blog post talking about how Adobe plans to improve Photoshop, which is obviously an application with a large number of very committed users. John Nack is talking about task orientated user interfaces, which in theory is what Microsoft was … Continue reading →

This looks really cool: IT World: Nissan adds a robot helper to its concept car It’s a concept electric car which has a small robot on the dashboard that offers directions and tries to keep the driver cheerful.

Got a package this morning delivered by DHL and an interesting thing happened. I recognised the delivery person and the delivery person recognised me. Which was nice. I think they must work a particular route, because the same woman tends … Continue reading →

I get tired of filling in captcha fields on forms. Wouldn’t it be handy if there was a facility in web browsers to fill them in automatically.

This says it all really. (Though saying that there are still some smart shows on tv. I just wanted to link to that page)

I’ve been watching educational stuff on the internet recently. One of the things that I really like is Google Tech Talks on Google Video. These are talks given at Google on different subjects and many are now available online. Amongst … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading stuff recently about creating native (non-java) mobile phone apps. The key thing is application signing. In an attempt to prevent viruses and malicious code from being run on mobile devices, the major platforms require that applications are … Continue reading →

I really hate the abbreviation “ICT”. Somehow every time I hear it I get slightly annoyed with it. Fortunately it looks like other people don’t like it either. ICT which stands for Information and Communication Technology is usually the phrase … Continue reading →

“I would argue that the fact that there are 100,000 people in China who are paid to play the boring parts of World of Warcraft is evidence of serious flaws in the game’s design.” Brandon Berg [link] (in the comments) … Continue reading →

Graham Miln at Dssw has an interesting article talking about adding legally required information to emails using headers instead of using signature blocks. He also talks about a defined microformat for the data. This is interesting to me, because I’m … Continue reading →

It looks like Apple is not moving into any kind of virtualization or emulation of Windows. Although Boot Camp is said to be included, it doesn’t appear that it will work noticably differently to current arrangments (ie. dual boot). This … Continue reading →

I happened to browsing a popular site that allows people to post tasks that others can bid on. The focus tends to be on small to medium sized technical tasks like web page design and small applications. But there are … Continue reading →