Monthly Archives: January, 2010
Germany government warns against Internet Explorer
You may have seen these stories in the news recently, relating to some attacks on Google, the German Government and Internewt Explorer. The original news item The subsequent reaction I’ve tried as hard as I can to come up with something useful to say on the subject, but the only thing I keep coming up [...]
Picking All The Big Ones Out
This is an old video, but one that I haven’t yet shared on here. It’s my kind of folk music, and this version of it is played on the following instruments: Acoustic Guitar Flying V Ukulele 5-string Banjo Tea Chest Bass Gravy Granule Shaker Novelty Miniature Bongo Being a new parent I rarely get the [...]
Finding the RSS Feeds of your Facebook Status Updates
Edit:As of recent changes (7/2/2010) to FB, this is no longer working for me. You might have better luck. Why don’t facebook just make this stuff available? Edit: This method has worked for my account and several others, but fails for some people. If you are greeted with the message “This feed URL is no [...]
Limiting the number of times a PHP loop will run using the break command
If you’re reading this page then you’re already likely familiar with the standard PHP for, while and foreach loops. If not, then may I suggest some background reading first – http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.control-structures.php. That said, I added a new weapon to my PHP arsenal today in the form of a better understanding of the break command. I’ve [...]
Good habits for password security
We all have it drummed into us to use different passwords for everything, but how many of us actually do? and how many of those use more than 2 or 3 passwords over and over again? If you ask yourself why not, it’s probably because you can’t / don’t want to remember lots of different [...]
