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Clueless office workers help spread computer viruses (via) “55% of those quizzed base their passwords on people’s names”

# 10th February 2004, 7:52 pm

World’s First HCI Rap: “We Got It”. HCI hip-hop from OK/Cancel. Sweet Jesus no!

# 10th February 2004, 7:48 pm

Why Questions go Unanswered (via) "I’m a lazy asshole and I can’t be bothered to learn to program myself, but I know if I post here you’ll give me something for free.’’

# 10th February 2004, 7:47 pm

NanoBlogger. A blogging system written in bash.

# 10th February 2004, 7:45 pm

Flagging issues on craigslist (via) Moderation in a high traffic environment.

# 10th February 2004, 7:44 pm / craigslist, moderation

More unfortunate PageRank. I’m third on Google for “hotmail inbox”

# 10th February 2004, 7:13 pm

Internet erosion of TV viewing habits deepens (via) Of the 11.8 hours the average Internet user spends online weekly, more than half is coming from TV viewing and almost none from sleep or socialization

# 10th February 2004, 5:57 pm

Bravo l’artiste (via) Ruper Murdoch, reviewed.

# 10th February 2004, 1:15 am

Hacking Friendster, Part I (via) Cross site scripting attacks in social networks

# 6th February 2004, 8:22 pm

Firebird Spell Checker. Slightly convoluted install procedure, but it’s a start.

# 6th February 2004, 8:04 pm

Popen5: useful! Obviously 4 popen functions isn’t enough.

# 6th February 2004, 5:23 pm

Blair may blog the next election (via) Unfortunately, spin and blogging just don’t mix.

# 6th February 2004, 4:10 pm / blogging

Marvin Walks (via) Video footage of the prototype Marvin suit for Hitch-Hikers the movie

# 6th February 2004, 3:58 pm

Basecamp. New hosted project management solution from 37signals

# 6th February 2004, 3:11 am

PHP Community Site (Coming Soon) (via) Still shaping up; volunteers welcome

# 6th February 2004, 2:29 am

Electoral Services (via) It turns out UK secret ballots aren’t so secret after all

# 6th February 2004, 1:52 am

London Slang. Because my co-workers didn’t know what “taking the mick” meant

# 5th February 2004, 9:23 pm

Using encryption and digital signatures in Mail (via) I’m still considering switching to Mail.app from Thunderbird

# 5th February 2004, 6:27 am

Apple—Trailers—Boundin. Pixar’s latest, with dancing gophers!

# 5th February 2004, 2:27 am

Google Guide (via) Great for friends and relatives who need to improve their search skills

# 4th February 2004, 11:11 pm

Eastern Standard Tribe. Cory has a new novel out. I think I’m actually going to buy this one.

# 4th February 2004, 10:46 pm

Download a RealPlayer version that doesn’t suck (via) The BBC link to a special version of the player, sans spyware and other gristle

# 4th February 2004, 7:50 pm

The myth of RSS compatibility [dive into mark]. Sometimes I think Mark’s raison d etre is to upset Dave Winer

# 4th February 2004, 7:45 pm / dave-winer, mark-pilgrim, rss

Mooncalf: Thuffering Thuccotash! Andy redesigns, in a pleasing shade of green

# 4th February 2004, 5:21 pm

ACCU Conference 2004. UK conference with a Python track

# 4th February 2004, 5:18 pm

Stalking the wild PVR... Sam Ruby’s experiences with Debian and MythTV

# 4th February 2004, 4:57 pm

Years

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