Something about the way PHP is set up by my hosting service broke the way Spam Karma downloaded its real time spammer blacklist, and as I got more and more out of date, the comment spam and the bloody trackback spam began to ramp up.
So I downloaded Spam Karma 2.o Final, and now [...]
all i want for christmas is…… - (Flickr user JJ*).
Damn them. Damn them.
You know how I feel about the iPod — I use it every day, but wish they’d fix some of those niggling user interface issues.
The iPod Nano is a very small object of great desire though. Look how small it is! It [...]
Paul did some more digging after his comment on my Chip & Pin post.
Chip and Spin clearly explains the subtle way in which the burden of proof, and hence the liability for fraudulent use has been transferred at least partly to the customer. The pertinent section is “Dispute Resolution”.
Update: What I wrote below turns out to be wrong. It was “conventional wisdom” which I’d heard from several anecdotal sources, but according to the Co-op bank website:
THE MYTH: After 1 January, the liability for card fraud losses switches from the banks to the cardholder.
THE TRUTH:
This is absolutely not the case. With the introduction [...]
Fellow Wordpress users and Google trackers might be interested that I’ve just installed a Google Sitemap Generator plugin for both this blog and the new travelogue pages.
A sitemap is an XML document that tells Google (or anyone else that cares to look) what pages are on your site, and how often they are likely [...]
Google Earth keeps getting cooler, and so does Flickr.
If you install this plugin for Google Earth, then every time you stop moving, it will query Flickr for the 50 images with location tags closest to where you’re looking, and overlay them as thumbnails on the map.
It makes me want to buy a GPS again.
… and while we’re on new software releases, yesterday Google released its Google Earth software for Windows. This is a new release of what was known as “Keyhole” before Google acquired it.
Essentially this is an onscreen globe, skinned with satellite imagery of Earth, which you can zoom into and explore. Detail is streamed from [...]
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iTunes 4.9 is out, and the big new feature is built-in podcasting support. This means you can subscribe to a programme, and it will automatically download in the background and show up in your library when new content is available. If you have a portable MP3 player, new podcasts will be uploaded to it [...]
Debbie’s iPod Mini kicked the bucket after only a month’s light use — it made poorly hard disk noises (yuk, I’ve heard those before), then displayed a picture of a sad iPod. So, we got to try out Apple’s repair service, under warranty.
Here’s how it works: On Thursday 9th June, I signed into the [...]
Pick a Flickr group (from a short list, alas), pick a colour from a broad pallette, get twelve or so pictures predominantly of that colour. That’s the Colr Pickr, and very clever it is too.
This sort of thing couldn’t be done without Flickr’s API, which non-commercial developers are free to use. It’s an attitude [...]