- My Name is Tom, or Errant. I write about geeky things, politics, and life in general and politic. My current day job is in computer security but I have been known to program in my spare time.
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Scribd Suck
Scribd are really annoying. I was put off of them years ago when Hacker News was set up to to append an auto-scrape url to the end of PDF submissions (the owner of HN is the same one who runs the … Continue reading
It could have happened!
Jet and passenger plane nearly collide over London, reported the BBC. What’s wrong with this article (apart from the fact that if it wasn’t London it wouldn’t be front page news)? The story is as mundane as they come; last … Continue reading
The Fallacy of Visualisation
Earlier, in a rather dramatic post, Wired declared that “The Web is Dead, Long Live the Internet“. Which is a pretty amusing bandwagon for them to be on in the first place. It would be fun to rip the article itself … Continue reading
Why I think “Draw Mohammed Day” is a bad idea
Draw Mohammed day is this silly idea someone came up with in an attempt to show unity against extremists who threaten death to those who, well, draw Mohammed. (for background; Muslims often find it offensive when people draw Mohammed because … Continue reading
Has Brown just signed his (political) death warrant
So, today the BBC are reporting Gordon Brown is up for taking part in a televised debate with the opposition leaders before the next election. Hmmm. 2 things strike me. The first is that this is clearly part of a desperate attempt … Continue reading
Quit stealing my bandwidth
Has anyone else noticed this recent rash of video adverts on websites? It might be because this PC is new and I havent had chance to install Ad Blocker Plus to FireFox yet but I seem to be catching more … Continue reading
People make me mad (or Marc Rishardson is evil)
Sad to see Stephen Hawking in hospital “seriously ill” after fighting his disease for 40 years. I wish him the best of luck. And then I see this on Twitter: What am I doing? Praying that when Stephen Hawking dies, … Continue reading
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Religious intolerance
Apparently a brand new Sony game (one I hadn’t heard about, wierdly!) has been delayed because.. da da dum: it contains a song with references to the Qur’an. References mind: this is not an offensive anti-muslim song (only the first … Continue reading
So the UK banks got a huge rescue package…
…and it had absolutely no effect. Why? very simple: public perception. Really this is a quite a good rescue package – well thought out, with some sensible impositions on the banks in question (like no bonuses for executives). So I … Continue reading