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Monday, 6th September 2004

Bye-bye CVS. I’ve been Subverted. I didn’t know about “svn diff -r PREV”.

# 5:32 am

Another less sleepy alternative to Hibernate. Ian demonstrates SQLObject.

# 7:35 am

Why does anyone put up with this? Windows spyware is completely out of control.

# 6:24 pm

The bookmarklet solution to the password problem

Anyone who makes heavy use of the internet has run in to the password problem: dozens of user accounts on sites with varying degrees of trustability, leading to an unmanageable proliferation of username and password combinations. The temptation is to use the same combination on multiple sites, but doing so opens you up to the horrifying prospect of a security flaw in one site compromising al of your other accounts.

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The Curse of Dick Cheney (via) With material like this, how can the Democrat campaign be so weak?

# 8:34 pm

Brits turning into computer buffs. Personally I find it shocking that only 75% of adults have used a computer.

# 8:54 pm

Missing Keystrokes in OS X (via) Emacs style keybindings are available in all Cocoa apps.

# 9:20 pm

Why I don’t recommend Firefox. The average user needs more mollycoddling.

# 9:49 pm