Posted on Thu 12 June 2008 in geek
Wow flash memory is getting cheap. I decided that my current 512mb key fob was starting to show it's limitations so picked up a shiny new 8gb one from World of Computers which I cycle past on the way into work. I'm sure I could find it cheaper than the …
The debate on 42 days detention without trial (or should we call it internment) continues to roll on. It's been particularly interesting listening to the politicos curious at why Parliament is being particularly difficult about this considering it allegedly a very popular policy with the "people". This hasn't been my …
Posted on Tue 10 June 2008 in general
In order to qualify for exemption from Council Tax in Manchester I need to empty the house of all furniture. So post party (11th July) I need to find deserving homes for:
Posted on Mon 09 June 2008 in geek • Tagged with bandwidth, mobile, t-mobile
I had suspected it for a while but I've just confirmed it. T-Mobile is altering my web-pages. I suspect in this case it's nothing overly sinister like Phorm but it is still un-announced tampering with web-pages I request from 3rd party servers.
Transparent proxies have existed almost as long as …
Posted on Mon 09 June 2008 in general • Tagged with jsp, lrp
The weekend was one of two halves, one half LRP and the other half drinking bubbly in gardens.
I worked late on Thursday to get everything I needed out of the door for our "alpha" release so I could take Friday off. This included a crash course in Java Server …