Yet another small nugget of code has gone into a public source tree. When I get a chance I'll have to fix up the one that didn't make it.

Yet another report has come out on how badly broken Wi-Fi "security" is. It's mainly talking about WEP which is the most rolled out method, however WPA is not without it problems (lest of all for me finding decently supported cards for Linux).

People often query why I leave my …

The house is slowly taking shape. In between nights out (lads poker night, girls night on the town) and rugby games we made a concerted effort to sort out the bedroom. This mainly involved a Trinny and Susannah sorting of all our clothes with ruthless binning and recycling policies and …

Moans about the iPlayer aside one of the other aspects of the BBC's latest media push was to make more of their radio programs available as podcasts. The new page lists many more programs than the anaemic list they had during the long trail period. Thankfully they have set up …

After much hand waving and threatening from Microsoft the predicted first patent suit has been filed. Predictably it's not from Microsoft themselves but a proxy patent troll firm. This doesn't directly affect us over here as software patents aren't allowed (yet) in the EU. However it is going to need …