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Devious Tactic Snags Phone Data. Social engineering with the “mumble” attack. # 17th January 2006, 3 pm

Web 3.0. A Zeldman classic. # 17th January 2006, 2:52 pm

China, Censorship and Companies: My Thoughts (via) The inside story from Jared Kim. # 16th January 2006, 11:41 pm

Showing Perfect Time. Includes a handy strftime implementation for JavaScript. # 16th January 2006, 10:28 pm

Note to our readers regarding the recent changes to naplesnews.com. Now powered by Django. And they’ve ditched registration! # 15th January 2006, 12:48 am

Google Local—“hotels in new york”. Sponsored results (the blue pins) on Google Maps. # 12th January 2006, 7:51 pm

DateBox—Intuitive Date Input Selection. Mixes JSCalendar with my better date input stuff. # 12th January 2006, 10:23 am

JSLog. Another JS logging tool. Takes up very little space when closed. # 11th January 2006, 10:10 am

Optimus keyboard. Every key is a colour screen. # 9th January 2006, 6:27 pm

Parsed.org (via) Computing tips site, powered by Django. # 7th January 2006, 11:59 am

3D Maps BETA. Firefox 1.5 only; uses SVG. # 6th January 2006, 11 am

Microsoft releases WMF update. Thank goodness for that. # 6th January 2006, 2:34 am

Lego mindstorms NXT. Lego announce a new mindstorms Robot, Mac compatible, with bluetooth. # 5th January 2006, 11:58 am

Running a Service in China. An MSN Spaces employee responds. # 4th January 2006, 8:59 pm

@media 2006. Back for another year, in London on the 15-16th of June. # 4th January 2006, 4:23 pm

Creating a Star Rater using CSS (via) It’s been a while since I saw a new CSS trick as neat as this one. # 4th January 2006, 12:14 am

Microsoft takes down Chinese blogger (via) Fascinating analysis of how easy it is to take the low-road when dealing with China. # 3rd January 2006, 5:38 pm

SANS WMF Exploit FAQ. This is really good. # 2nd January 2006, 2:59 am

SANS recommend unofficial WMF patch (via) Unprecedented—but MS response is just too slow. # 2nd January 2006, 2:52 am

Happy New Year!

It’s just gone midnight here in England (I’m in Exeter for the new year), so Happy New Year to all. Top weblog-related priority for 2006: upgrade this aging heap of badly written object-oriented PHP to something better. I’ll try and get some good content flowing more regularly as well.

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