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For a long time the idea of ad blockers has been presented as something of a touchy subject – does it hurt websites, or are the blockers just exercising their consumer rights. And so on.
To quote myself on the matter:
Both sides have a clear point here. The problem is that the ad blockers hold all [...]

When people find out I work in computer security they usually, at some point, ask me about how I come up with “secure passwords”. My advice (which follows) is incredibly simple – and usually gets scoffed at. “You can’t be serious” etc. And yet all the crazy ways they come up with to solve the “problem” [...]

This week Google launched, and then spectacularly fucked up, their new uber service called “Buzz“. With all the security mess involved many have hailed this as Google finally jumping the shark. Regardless, on the back of the recent rise in anti-Google mutterings it was clearly a Bad Thing To Happen™.
As a huge Google fan Buzz [...]

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Modular is my new Kohana module designed to help you manage your other modules! Version 1.0 allows you to track installed and loaded modules and load/unload them with a single click.
The list of loaded modules is stored in the database table; a hook extracts the list during Kohana’s system.ready event and loads them.
Here’s how it [...]

This week I was without internet but with netbook; which left me somewhat free to code whatever took my fancy. So, armed with the latest mercurial release and as much info on the API available (read: very little) I set off to build something fun.
One project I’ve always wanted to try and complete is a [...]

Im too young to ever have used Geocities; byt the time I actively had a web page hosting was as cheap as chips all over the place. But even as the newer generation of web geeks I always new about it.
Geocities was always there for the the spam, the ARG pages, the conspiracy theories and, [...]

I love seeing new websites and startups launch on Hacker News; even the “I threw this together in a few hours to learn X” sites are usually worth a quick diversion. But what I really love is all the great feedback you get on such posts. Because of how HN is set up (and I guess [...]

Today is an awesome day; I just bought a copy of “Brother In The Land” by Robert Swindell. It may sound strange but this teenage post-apocalyptic thriller is still my favourite book of all time. Allow me to explain.
As a book it’s not hugely well written (and the story is certainly very over the top) [...]

It’s worth saying.
I’ve been a bit of a douche to them the last few weeks; firstly by sort-of being unfairly rude about them publicly when they had some down time (twice) and this week when I did nasty things to my subscriptions….
I guess I was probably not really a douche; as a paying customer I [...]