- 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.
-
Recent Posts
Category Archives: Uncategorized
My Workspace :)
via twitterrific Posted via web from errantx’s posterous
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Twitter: Making Everyone a legal expert!
Interesting conversation going down right now between some Twitterati; the reson it is interesting is not the subject but the fact that people with no clue are making very dangerous and loud statements that media could easily pick up on. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
The Republic of Internet
I just read Fred Benenson blog post “When Does Facebook Stop Being a Startup and Start Being A Government?” via HN (incidentally never come across Fred before but his blog is an excellent read, worth subscribing) and it set me … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, ideas
Tagged ideas, internet, opinion, republic of the internet
Leave a comment
Dear Pirate Bay
Purely in the interests of the openness that you seek to champion please release information about your income, revenue and costs. Here is why: they claimed not to earn the milli0ns of dollars that the recording industry says they do. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
2 Comments
YARR!
Today, apparently, is “Speak like a Pirate day”. Lovely concept. I particularly like Facebooks piratification. The best one is “xyz hung a possessed portrait.” for movies. hehe. And I’m also surprised Google didnt do an image for it bah sucks … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Mad
Im pretty pissed off I just spent hours trying to work out why a MYSQL database insert in PHP was inserting the same entry twice each time I refreshed a page. I took the code apart and checked it ALL … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
CI Demo: Extending a simple auth system
I’ve been working from home today, which was something of a novelty! No one was in the office so I’ve been working on a website design at home (sort of a secondary project there). For most of the websites (including … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged auth, code, Code Igniter, demo, example, framework, Kohana, php, work
Leave a comment