While the Linux find command has a number of uses, the most obvious being looking for files matching full or partial names, the one often underused option is to use it to locate old files. More »
I got an email from a friend of mine who occasionally reads this blog. His comments about one aspect of this website, and my subsequent reply, were interesting enough for me want to use them as the basis for this blog entry. My friend wrote: You don’t have a home page. More »
Displaying “mailto” links in web pages is much less widespread than it used to be in the good old days, largely thanks to the proliferation of web scraping spam harvesters. The email obfuscator uses a simple trick to effectively camouflage an email address which may be embedded in a web page. More »
Sony are at it again. This time it’s Sony Pictures contributing to the web monkeys of the year awards. More »
Now that BMW and Ricoh have been caught spamming the search engines and their German websites have been removed from the Google index, I hope that BMW and Ricoh sack those idiots who obviously thought that trying to fool the world’s biggest search engine was a good idea. More »
According to our friends at InfoWorld, ZoneAlarm, one of the most popular (if not over-hyped) personal firewall, anti-spyware and security pieces of software, appears to be spyware. Apparently, ZoneAlarm V6. More »
As you’re probably aware, the Australian Federal and State governments have decided to extend daylight savings by an extra week, due to the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. More »