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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...

I'm not a buffer-overflow coding type of guy. But I do have to keep my boxes secure, and in the process of that, I have learnt that a lot of the buffer overflows in C occur because the people writing the software used functions like strcpy (string copy)...

Because J2ME is annoying, it doesn't have a function that rounds a number, say 1234.56789 to a certain number of decimal places. So here is mine. PS. I am learning Java, so if it doesn't adhere to the One True Java Way (tm), please feel free to write...