- 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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Assange: Conspiracy or coincidence
Today various news agencies are reporting that Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is wanted in connection to rape allegations. Coincidence? Well, maybe. People have been pretty quick to come up with various conspiracy theories; the ones I’m seeing in my usual … Continue reading
Bit Bucket Rocks
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 … Continue reading
Google Reader obscuring traffic sources
It’s not a big issue (well, not an issue at all) but interesting never the less. Looking at traffic sources for visits to this blog yesterday puts Google Reader above News.YC as the main traffic source. Normally i get 10-15 … Continue reading
Hackles!
I just got linked to a really neat post about a *nix comic strip (actual comic site is here: www.hackles.org). How did I not see this before! It’s a shame it died off so long ago because some of it … Continue reading
Eventscripts 2 Beta Update
Umm – VERY slow on this update but Mattie has pushed out an update to his Eventscripts 2 plugin. Grab the latest download here http://forums.mattie.info/cs/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17891. Apparently us beta testers weren’t giving enough feedback so he has released this to public … Continue reading
Dezzzzzzzzzzzzzzine!
I usually hate doing designs for web pages – but this one actually ended up looking quite good . And to cap it all I quite enjoyed doing it!
The Birth Of Linux
Literally! http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/thread/76536d1fb451ac60/b813d52cbc5a044b?#b813d52cbc5a044b I was just linked to it on another forum. I cant believe after x years in fron of a PC I’ve never found this I just thought it was a nice bit of nostalgia (and quite funny if … Continue reading
Captcha of fortune
This one is gr8t! A most exciting captcha… It really isn’t faked! Apologies for the laps in posting.. it’ been a busy week but I should get chance to post some backlogged stuff later