Posted on Mon 10 January 2011 in geek • Tagged with chrome, chromium, facebook, privacy, twitter
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 …
Posted on Fri 07 January 2011 in general • Tagged with android, custom roms, htc, htc hero, rooting
I went to the pub last night with some of the ex-Transitive crew who have migrated south. It was a fun night of over the top geekery of the kind you only really get when people like to discuss processor architectures and the pros and cons of various language standards …
Posted on Tue 04 January 2011 in geek • Tagged with call of duty, cod, cod:bo, games, ps3, review
As is becoming traditional I got the latest instalment of the Call of Duty franchise, Black ops, as one of my Christmas presents. What follows is some brief comments having finished the single player campaign last night. I don't think I've been overly hammering it but I reckon it took …
Posted on Sun 02 January 2011 in geek, general • Tagged with 2010, emacs, life, review
2010 has been a pretty good year for us, it seems like is has packed a lot in.
Professionally I've been doing really well. The company I work for has had yet another record breaking year which has triggered my bonus again (although I don't find out how much until …
Posted on Sun 26 December 2010 in general • Tagged with christmas, family, holidays
As the sun rises on a clear blue boxing day morning my body ponders what to do with the excess calories of yesterdays toughing. After so many years of the Bennee clan together with occasional grand-parental input we are now entering a new phase of the Christmas dynamic as the …