Listening to various BBC podcasts brought this to my attention a while back and I’ve been following the phone hacking scandal since. Looks like News International might be better named Scandal International. Murdoch is hiding one of his Sith Lords at The Wall Street Journal. Joy!
I know it’s a topic I come back to now and again, but only because it is one of the most useful “technologies” to come out of my WorldWideWeb experience. The ability to essentially bookmark something of interest and then have that thing tell you when something happens to it is a remarkable way to…
While composing a detailed “you broke the build and here’s how, but you’re not here so you’ll see this in the morning and have to answer the gnashing and wailing from the angry horde of testers” email, I was chatted up by hotandhorny13. I did not blur the URL to the probable malware site linked.…
A comment spammer left this comment on an earlier blog post Finally, an issue that I am passionate about. I have looked for information of this caliber for the last several hours. Your site is greatly appreciated. Glad I could procure something for him/her to finally be passionate about.
For what seems like forever, a certain list-serv list on a topic of academic research interest has been a mere dribble of traffic in my Inbox. Most of the traffic being the monthly “you’re subscribed to List-FOO” and occasional position postings, most of which are in the UK. I know I stopped monitoring the list…
So Facebook doesn’t want to play nice and just give you RSS feeds for a user’s status updates. Used to be you could do that, but not so much any longer. It appears you may be able to generate a status feed using the Graph API, but that’s seriously overkill for my needs. Besides, who…
I’ve been tinkering with pulling all of my generated content on other sites into a single, browsable, About Me kind of page here on SRT. On the flip side, I’ve been toying with how to create a nice portal that collects all of the various bits of content people I like create on various social…
The fabulous Santastic mix series has released this years compilation: Santastic V: Snow, Man!. Haven’t listened yet, but based on past experience, it will be good.
Listened with whatever word it is that describes amusement crossed with shock and dismay to this NPR story about phosphate-free dishwasher detergent on my way in to work this morning. One Mrs. Sue Wright of Austin, Texas, single-handedly made my day when she flexed her reasoning prowess thusly: I’m angry at the people who decided…
In which our humble narrator lays out an ambitious web portal plan under the guise of a paltry review of PandoraJam.