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I’m sure we all know what fishing means.
But how many have heard of the word “phishing” which is pronounced exactly the same but means an entirely different thing?
Now, the latest in a line of ‘ishing’ words is “vishing” or VoIP Phishing. With VoIP being “Voice Over IP” for those unfamiliar even with this term. Note, [...]

Am I alone in seeing issues with this update?
There’s nothing concrete I can say except that my surfing can freeze for no particular reason and only one thing restores normal surfing - that is shutting down Firefox and re-opening it. Because I typically have four or more tabs open I’ve taken to crashing out so [...]

In my last post I talked about not controlling what my children click on.
Well this is only partially true. I don’t monitor or log their keystrokes or any other form of intrusive monitoring but I do use a URL filter. In keeping with wanting to use the best and, if possible, for free (personally I [...]

Long term viewers of this blog will know that I am keen on personal security from the computer perspective and also that I am keen on windows users installing personal firewalls.
Firstly I guess, a definition of personal is required here.  By this I simply mean it is a software based firewall that sits on the [...]

I am a happy boy tonight, well 4.33 am as I type this.
As most folks probably know by now Pandora went silent for UK listeners a few days back. I won’t bore you with the details of the whys as plenty of others have already done so. Anyway, after trying upwards of a dozen or [...]

Well not really, but my life or those near and dear to me do.
This is a quick 2007 in review thingy.
Close family member buried her husband at the start of the year due to rapid onset cancer.  At the end of the year we were burying her new partner due to an industrial workplace accident.
Shift [...]

No, not me. But I am pleased to say that Sustrans has won the people’s vote and they, of the 4 finalists, have been given teh £50 Million from the lottery fund.
In their own words:
Sustrans Connect2 Wins The Peoples £50 Million!
£50 million won and we couldn’t have done it without you!
This is fantastic news, [...]

OK - further to my previous post about The People’s 50 Million, the voting has now opened and I’ve placed mine for the Sustrans Project.
They had a bit of a hiccup as their captcha wasn’t working, but that has been fixed. Do be warned though, the registration captcha is easy to read in comparison to [...]

[tags] 101 lists, blogs, blogging [/tags]
Whilst I wouldn’t say the list ‘Best 101 List‘ is conclusive, it is certainly useful and even amusing in places. However the vast majority of them are aimed at blog writers so naturally I will be spending some time perusing them.
I simply offer them to you. Enjoy.

[tags]crayon physics, games, fun[/tags]
I came across Kloonigames the other day and whilst I’m not a big games person I am a bit of a sucker for certain types. One of them is puzzles that involve placing random elements around a stage in order to get an item (typically a ball) from one position to another [...]