Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter et al diluted the realtime pool.
Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people pretending they are the centre of the universe isn't Like-worthy — I figured why not make a blog? The main difference here compared with other people's blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. Who says I'm late to the social party?
The curse of the intermittent fault
· 1480 words (devours about 7 mins)When your boiler’s broke. And your water’s cold. Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters? A heating engineer? Or someone with a soldering iron and dogged determination?
Down with negative logic in programming
· 699 words (vacuums up about 4 mins)I’m on the warpath against any programmers that employ negative logic in their code. Desist from never supplying positive assertions. Right now.
Sorting out the Windows trash
· 759 words (laps up about 4 mins)Why is the Windows trash can called a Recycle Bin? You don’t take the contents, melt it down and make something else out of it.
Learning the drill
· 1077 words (eats up about 5 mins)I admit I suck at DIY. But it’s not through lack of trying, it’s lack of training. And sometimes a serious lack of common sense.
The smoking PC: lessons in dust and fans
· 839 words (kills about 4 mins)In twenty years of building and maintaining computer systems I’ve never seen this level of damage due to heat. The devil is in the dust, it seems.
Yahoo email now with sponsored spam
[10 comments] · 402 words (kills about 2 mins)People logging into Yahoo’s email accounts (like rocketmail) may have noticed a rather nasty-looking advert directly in their inbox. Oh dear, Yahoo, oh dear.
Mobile devices make it easy to hack passwords
[4 comments] · 949 words (sucks up about 5 mins)If you use your mobile phone or tablet for any kind of Internet application that requires authentication — Facebook, Twitter or online banking, for example — you’re setting yourself up to get hacked.
Don't cross the blades
[2 comments] · 204 words (laps up less than a minute)Marketing material should always be taken with a mountain of salt, but sometimes it would pay manufacturers to be slightly less terse, or at least consider the reader.
