Category: Internet

My ISP went down for most of yesterday, and I must admit that it gave me something of a fright. I did consider that maybe all the stuff I’ve put on this website might have been lost. For all I knew, the company had gone bust or something! Fortunately that’s not the case and it…

I’ve just installed MT Blacklist after a number of tedious spam blog entries over the last few weeks culminating in around a dozen entries all made within 24 hours of one another the other day. I know that this is low compared to some people, but it’s still a pain. I’m pleased to say that…

500 lucky souls at the BBC are getting to trial the BBC’s TV equivalent of their radio player according to this report in The Independent (read it quickly since it may go Premium, or go here instead). I suspect that the service will only be available to those broadband suppliers listed within the BBC’s Broadband…

I’m currently suffering from some kind of spyware/malware that’s infecting my Google search results. The top 4 or 5 results are not being served by Google, but being inserted by something called “Hi-results” and pushing the real results further down the list. The style of Google’s returns is retained, even down to a “cached” result…

So I borrowed a hard drive from work, resigned to the fact that at least I could crack on with creating a Ghost of a reinstalled XP system last night. I’d already started on the “longer than you realised” list of software I had to reinstall, and drivers that’d need updating. Plug in the replacement…

Hmm. One week a viral email appears for the Ford Sportka in which a cat is seemingly beheaded. Bad taste from some European division of Ford. Er, no, because there’s a link to this site (doesn’t work at time of writing). Today’s Mediaguardian carries this piece (free registration required) in which the Chief Executive of…

Oh it’s so unfair – some people are so talented. I followed this link (via Ben Hammersley) to see a personal plea from one Chloé Micout for a job working for Joss Whedon (the man behind Buffy and Angel). The site is a short personal plea to be given a job as well as several…

I’ve just discovered the delights of VNC. Ever since I got broadband at home, I’ve wanted to fully control my PC from home. I played around with something called RemotelyAnywhere, but the remote control part never really worked well for me. Well guess what? VNC is free, simple and worked first time, out of the…

This is useful. Hopefully the spelling on my entries will improve, even if what I have to say doesn’t.

Much excitement on Sunday, when I finally got my PS2 online. I bought the adaptor… ooh… back in May last year. Registered, and then borrowed a copy of SOCOM to try to get online. Unfortunately, while I was able to register, using my good old crossover network cable, unplugging it from my other PC, seemed…

The promotional cans of Coke advertising their new service have started to appear (in our fridge at work at least), and so I’ve had a look around their site. Well I say “their site” since I really mean a branded OD2 site, much like the GWR service’s site will also be. I have two problems:…

Mediaguardian has a fascinating look at what the BBC are planning for their digital services. I really hope the BBC get their player up and running before the end of the year, although I’m still slightly concerned that Demon still don’t allow access to BBC Broadband (or rather the BBC and Demon haven’t met one…

Well the results are in: Last week – 197 pieces of spam over a 24 hour period. This week – 21 pieces spam over a similar period. That’s quite a significant reduction. And my spam filter is only going to get better and cleaner as a result.