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Prerequisites: * You have a large CD collection. * You work for a decent company that won't begrudge you 64Kb/s *, and doesn't have insanely paranoid firewall policies. * You'd like a nice random selection of your music to listen to at work. * You...

I'm sure we've all suffered from this at some time. You've got access to a machine on the internet, and a friend of yours has offered to sort out some of your CSS, but a firewall protecting the server blocks his IP? This example uses SSH, but it wil...

Now that I've started writing little apps for phones, I occasionally get excited by one, and send a link to some people. They get an SMS from me with an URL ending .jad, and a message urging them to install, and run it. Some do, some don't - I sus...

I was contacted by a publisher a few months ago to ask whether I minded having a photo of the Kremlin used on the cover of a book. I replied that I didn't mind, and today I was told that a couple of copies would be coming my way. The book is Russia a...

(Updated 2007-05-27 - see below) I've had my hands on the Nokia N95 now for about a week (thanks, work!). I was excited to get it, as it had build in GPS - which my N80 didn't. However, there are a few flaws. * Battery life. * GPS sensitivity...

I had heard that people from Hartlepool were nicknamed "Monkey Hangers", and wondered why. You couldn't make it up. From the article: "Unfamiliar with what a Frenchman looked like they came to the conclusion that this monkey was a French spy and sho...

As the browser is one of the most common points of entry into a system, it makes sense to do everything that is possible to secure it. Any sane user will never browse the web as root (or an account with Administrator access in Windows*), as any malwa...

I think we invented a new game at work today. We weren't sure if Nelson had one eye, and one arm, or if we were mixing his injuries up with someone else. Of course, Wikipedia told us that yes, indeed, he was dually disabled. And then we hit upo...

It's Good Friday, and I'm about to go and visit a friend in Cardiff. I would normally drive, but I thought, hey, I'll take the train, and then I can be drunk on the way home. However, the bus service in this city doesn't run on public holidays. So...

I'm all slaved out. There's so much about it recently on the media. Plays on Radio 4, documentaries, drama, etc. Quite frankly, it's getting boring now. In case you don't know, it's the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the UK...