Spam … don’t you just love it…

At the moment I’m getting a serious amount of spam on my comments forms from 209.47.94.52 now this is listed as being a VerizonBusiness address … I’ve done a quick check online and yep .. looks like a lot of people have been complaining about this and still they’ve done nothing about it.
Personally I don’t [...]

the new wordpress was released yesterday …

as this site is currently running wordpress I was planning on upgrading to Wordpress 2.3
Michele over on his blog had an interesting article Wordpress Release Raises Privacy and Security Concerns. It makes me wonder what the hell they are playing at … but thankfully as you’ll see .. someone has made a … wp don’t [...]

Enemy Territory Demo

While browsing fileplanet last saturday I think it was I saw the demo for Enemy Territory Quake Wars was available … of course I downloaded it immediately … forgot about it till wednesday night .. installed it and I must say I’m blown away the AI when playing against the computer seems to be very [...]

Firefox 2.0.0.7 released…

Its like its the year 2007 or something … next release in 2008 ?
A friend (stef) informed me this morning that
http://www.wow-europe.com/de/index.xml was broken … I checked it out .. no it was working fine …  I see the update firefox popup … and … update …
hey presto on reload of the page I’m [...]

offline browsing of a website…

I’ve recently done up a mockup of a website and well for content I made use of some simple php functions to create lists and so on so that my code for forms wasn’t completely bloated …
Now there were about 15 or so pages and I don’t think your standard save page will copy it [...]

Windows Skype users can be infected by a worm …

Yes I’m scare mongering …
It seems these days that skype just grows worse and worse for me … I don’t show up to other users .. they don’t show up to me … messages take an hour to send and a host of other problems …
Now  it would appear that you can have your [...]

how can I have a file automatically download

ok the title is possibley a little bit misleading … the other day a question on boards was how can I have a file automagically popup the save as dialogue when you click on it … other peoples responses were to add in some text saying right click on the file and choose save as [...]

Anathema a band to check out

I just found a new band for me to check out in lots more detail …
As I was talking to a friend online tonight he mentioned he was going to the Porcupine Trees concert in vienna and I said cool … … I quite like them and even played them at my wedding
I asked [...]

A new version of Pidgin is available

A few weeks ago I moved over to using Pidgin (used to be called gaim) http://www.pidgin.im
I just saw today that they’ve released 2.1.1 … it hasn’t crashed on me yet (today) but I’m not holding my breath I’ve had problems with the previous incarnation of Pidgin … gaim and could never get it to run [...]

Freeware ImageMap Tool

Friday saw me looking for an ImageMap tool … I was asked how difficult it would be to create clickable regions on a map. I said not that difficult but time consuming and time consuming it is mapping out all the points and coordinates as well as tracing the map out to begin with to [...]

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