Today I was woken by a weird buzzing noise. At 5am. After figuring out that I wasn’t dreaming and that this was actually real life, I wondered what on earth could cause such a thing. Just as I was starting to think that I should ring reception and tell them… Read More
A report released on Wednesday in the U.S. has found that the sexual solicitation of children by adults online simply isn’t a significant problem. The report was produced by the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, created in February 2008 by 50 U.S. state attorneys. You can see the final report… Read More
I’ve finally found a gallery plugin for WordPress that doesn’t completely suck: NextGEN Gallery. In fact, this one is quite good. It handles bulk uploads well, and supports import from a directory on the filesystem. It can display the gallery in a variety of modes, and the user experience is… Read More
I just watched a Pop! Tech presentation by Malcolm Gladwell about a concept called capitalization and how it relates to success in human endeavour. It’s quite interesting, and I might just have to go buy his book Outliers: The Story of Success, which is apparently all about the idea. The… Read More
I’ve long been one of those nutters who tried to get people to use encrypted email, who cares about privacy, and defends people who do distasteful things but aren’t breaking any laws. A healthy dose of paranoia, I guess. It’s a hard position to take, because people just don’t care.… Read More
I gave up on Yahoo! being able to reset my password on my original Flickr account, so I’ve created a new one and uploaded my photos from OSDC 2008. Unfortunately, many of them are slightly blurry. I was using a 300mm telephoto, without flash, inside, which is always tricky. That,… Read More
Excellent. It’s looking more and more likely that Stephen Conroy’s idiotic plan to censor Australia’s Internet feed is going to die. An article in The Age today reports that Telstra and Internode are not going to participate in the so-called ‘live trial’ (huzzah! I have Internode DSL), and iiNet is… Read More
I’m taking a break from work at the moment. It’s been a long time coming, and something I should have done at least 6 months ago. That was the original plan, but work commitments to a client project took longer than expected, for a variety of reasons. The reason for… Read More
Like Richard “world’s biggest luddite” Alston, before him, Stephen Conroy seems to think that he knows better than you or I what we should be able to access over the Internet. It’s very, very easy to shrilly cry “Protect the Children!” whenever issues of censorship come up, seeking to cynically… Read More
In possibly one of the most bizarre transitions from Internet meme to real life: Rick Astley rickrolls the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Via the always lovely waxy. Read More
