November 2004
Nov. 14, 2004
Why MP’s should get blogging. Another MP who gets it.
Nov. 15, 2004
Mumps!
I’ve become yet another statistic in the Bath Mumps epidemic of 2004. I’m quarantined until next Monday, and this afternoon we had a camera crew from ITV West come round to film some doom-and-gloom footage warning students to get vaccinated. Amusingly the camera man hadn’t had Mumps and took suitable precautions to avoid infection. I’m told that the piece will go out on ITV news for the south west at 6pm this evening.
MeriBlog: Mumps. More mump pics.
Nov. 16, 2004
Blinded by Science (via) “How ’Balanced’ Coverage Lets the Scientific Fringe Hijack Reality”
Syrup Sponge. Best. Pudding. Ever.
Nov. 17, 2004
The Man Behind the FedEx Logo (via) An interview, mostly about the subliminal arrow.
Nov. 18, 2004
Google Scholar. Search academic papers. Invaluable for degree course final year projects.
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Hack your way out of writer’s block. I frickin’ LOVE Merlin Mann.
S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System (via) If you haven’t checked it out yet, do so. It’s great.
Nov. 19, 2004
Introducing Java 5. It seems to mainly fix common irritations, which can’t be a bad thing.
Nov. 20, 2004
RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths. “This memo documents the fundamental truths of networking for the Internet community.”
Nov. 21, 2004
XUL Filemanager (via) Really, really impressive technology demo. Firefox required.
Tim Bray: Opening Everything. “... the days when the recipe for success included wrapping the engineering in a veil of secrecy, those days are gone.”
Nov. 22, 2004
The Register hit by XSS
Here’s a nasty one: popular tech news site The Register was hit on Saturday by the Bofra exploit, a nasty worm which uses an iframe vulnerability in (you guessed it) Internet Explorer to install nasty things on the victim’s PC. Where it gets interesting is that the attack wasn’t against the Register themselves; it came through their third party ad serving company, Falk AG.
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No EU Software Patents
It would be nice if someone with some serious design credentials would knock up some more aesthetically pleasing banners.
[... 119 words]Nov. 24, 2004
Bug Report (via) PPK’s latest, an interactive CSS browser bug database. Fantastic!
TrackBack and Pingback supported by CNET News.com (via) Blog technolog goes mainstream.
Nov. 27, 2004
Eclipse download hell
One of the many thing the Mozilla/Firefox team have got right is the fantastic ease with which the application can be downloaded. Visitors to www.mozilla.org are greeted with a nice big “Free Download” link, aimed straight at the version for their (automatically detected) operating system hosted on a mirror geographically close to their IP address. It’s hard to think of any way they could improve on this.
[... 527 words]Nov. 28, 2004
Mozilla Firefox article on Wikipedia. Today’s featured article.
Nov. 30, 2004
Python Parsing Tools (via) Ned’s compilation of Python parsing libraries.