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If I hear one more person referring to cookies as "programs", I will scream. I've just heard a report on BBC News 24 referring to them as just such. A cookie is a small bit of text (such as an id) which a site can ask you to keep, and send back ever...

Sometime in the past few years, I've become aware of the vast number of units related to the measurement of radiation, and I've decided to do something about it, and de-ignorise myself about them. Here are the units: Becquerel Sievert Roentgen ...

As part of a TDD workshop at work this week, we had to write an implementation of something, tests that covered it, and then rewrite it. I took it to extremes, and tried to make it as ugly as possible, and my second implementation was the following. ...

Old, but so good it's worth repeating. The world has been placed on a heightened security alert following reports that New Age terrorists have harnessed the power of homeopathy for evil. "Homeopathic weapons represent a major threat to world peace" s...

I took the plunge recently, and joined the HD world. I bought a Samsung UE40D6100 40 inch TV. It's lovely. The 3 or 4 Freeview channels that are broadcast in HD look very good indeed. However, what is perhaps not advertised so much is that immedia...

Foglights are not something you switch on to let the person behind know that you know it's foggy. They probably already know. The grey, dank, low cloud obscuring visiblity probably gives it away. They're meant to be put on so that people a long way b...

I've just got back from a week in Finland. It was between -4 and -8 most of the time. Brisk. Bracing. Nippy perhaps. But it doesn't hold a patch on Oymyakon. It's the coldest permanently inhabited place in the world. The average - average, mind you ...

If you're like me, and you've been struggling with Java build systems, such as NetBean's inbuilt one, or Ant, let me tell you - check out Maven. Everyone's been using it for ever, so it's properly tested, and widely supported. You add libraries by d...

If you're running Chrome, or Firefox 8, check out Nokia's 3D maps. Some of the cities are scarily realistic. Really impressive stuff.

I was watching The Jury tonight, and the very sarcastic QC (played by Julie Walters) mentioned that the 3 murdered girls had all been on a website, mischiefmatch.com. Me, being me, sat by my computer, checked if it was registered, and it wasn't, so I...