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Blog the Country

BBC News: 'Mass blog' to capture UK Tuesday . People throughout the country are being asked to contribute to a mass web log recording a day in the life of Britain. Tuesday 17 October has been picked as an "ordinary day much like any other of no particular

Stranger danger

The BBC ran a series this week about internet crime to see what the average net user is up against, and it's a good read. In the first article, they logged what tried to attack a honeypot PC. They had to wipe the machine after the second article

War of the Windows

BBC News: Web perils advise switch to Macs. Security threats to PCs with Microsoft Windows have increased so much that computer users should consider using a Mac, says a leading security firm. Sophos security said that the 10 most commonly found pieces of malicious software all targeted Windows machines. In

K9

BBC News: Doctor Who dog K9 gets spin-off. Doctor Who's robotic dog K9 is to get its own TV spin-off featuring a mixture of live action and computer animation. Children's TV channel Jetix Europe is joining forces with former Doctor Who designer Paul Tams and K9

Exodus

From the mountains high and valleys low, the ocean through the desert snow, say goodbye to the friends we know, this is our exodus, this is our exodus. From the traffic jams in Tokyo, new music on the radio, say goodbye to the world we know, this is our exodus,

The Tardis rides again

BBC News: Third series for Dr Who and Rose. Doctor Who is back for a second series and the Time Lord will be around for a while, because star David Tennant has signed up for a third. Billie Piper, his assistant Rose Tyler, has also confirmed she is on board

Frankenstein's Mac

This is so very wrong. BBC News: Hackers get Mac running Windows. Hackers have managed to get Microsoft's Windows XP operating system running on an Apple Mac computer. The success ends a competition started to see if the feat was even possible when Apple unveiled computers that used

Sunflower

I'm done tinkering with WordPress themes, at least for a few days, and I've finished my first theme. It's got a sunflower header image from stock.xchg, a background from Squid Fingers, and a whole lot of CSS. Adding a screenshot image makes life

Thematic

I changed the template again. I'm not abandoning the Desert 1.5 theme, I just like this Green Track one better, at least for today. I have a few others socked away for rainy days. I think I'd like to try designing my own one, but

Snapshot - March 2006

Listening to Train "For Me, It's You" and Emiliana Torrini "Love In The Time Of Science". I have to be in the right mood for Emiliana, but she's written some beautiful mellow songs, definitely worth listening to. The Train CD was a

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