It’s a mark of how reliable some websites are that the first thing you do when you can’t access it you assume it’s something up at your end. As it turns out the BBC has suffered a major DNS outage knocking all four of their DNS servers off the ‘net. At a stroke anything with [...]
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Chromium Privacy Plugin
Did you know every time you see a Facebook/Twitter/Social Media-de-jour button on a web-page it’s reporting your visiting patterns to home base? If you thought Ad tracking was a worrying invasion of your privacy then just consider how much info Facebook has on you along with your browsing history? While things like incognito mode have [...]
No Snow Yet
According to the new live weather map we live in the only part of the country that has dodged the snow bullet so far. That’s certainly the impression I get from seeing every ones various social media musings on the matter. No matter the platform we Brits seems to love talking about the weather. I’m [...]
The things geeks think about….
I’ve been thinking about the whole Twitter* thing recently having been trying it out for two months or so. I haven’t much to add to my previous analysis other than spam will continue to be a problem in this new landscape and risks bogging it down. From the start of the experiment I was keen [...]
Floods of biblical proportions
I can’t tell you exactly what I was doing when I heard that retro pop sensation Michael Jackson had died however I did find out on Twitter which I’m sure will make the BBC happy. However that’s all I have to say on that matter as I have been preoccupied with other things. It was [...]
