- 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
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
The problem with Oauth/OpenID
There is an underlying problem with Oauth and OpenID – and it has nothing to do with the idea itself. The specs for both projects are impressive (marred by a few flaws I admit) and most implementations sound. The problem … 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
Gotta do something…
Yet another slump today on the markets. It’s getting more than a bit worrying. The trouble is the traders are worried about the state of the banks – but THEIR STILL BETTING on whether they fail or not. How is … Continue reading
My Laptop keeps crashing
…which is incredibly annoying because I am trying to do work On the positive side I just installed Launchy on it – a friend of mine introduced me to this cool little app ages back but I’ve only recently started using … Continue reading
I hate Perl
It’s such a sucky language! I’ve been hacking at it today to try and extract an image name from some html. To do it you can use split() to parse it to a list and then test the list for … Continue reading
No Appreciation: Take 1
I was hungover yesterday – which is always a good time for me to come up with shit. The thinking is this: as a programmer I know we get a really bad deal compared to “designers”. Take the web as … Continue reading