Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I've long been a believer as a member of the younger generation that we need to remember and stand up and speak for the Veterans of our Armed Forces no matter who they are. I'm increasingly beginning to think our current overlords (Government) are not honouring the Military Covenant with ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
Well after seeing a somewhat mediocre talk on SCADA at this years Defcon, myself and a colleague had been messing around with the idea of writing a SCADA network scanning tool.
Over the last couple of weeks I've been writing it in Ruby. At the moment it is more of a ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Another year passes...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Something I noticed very quickly was how badly the battery can be hit by simple things on the iPhone 3G. Apple have a page of features that drain battery life, now problem is quite a few mean disabling features that you want to use like push email and wifi.
I did ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Well I'm seriously considering ending my now 15 year relationship as a Vodafone customer.. Switching to O2 and getting another iphone 3G in August when my current Vodafone contract expires.
Looking at the Vodafone site I cannot find a price plan that can provide the level of data and minutes to ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Well after a day with it some more impressions.
App Store, there are a lot of things there that do the same thing and lots of useless apps.
There are some free apps, the best has got to be Apple Remote, which basically allows you to use your iPhone to control 'paired' ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Well it arrived, even though on Monday I never actually fully completed the order process, due to the busted O2 update site.
So I'm happy I didn't have to camp an O2 shop to get my iphone upgrade.
So Exchange email, well it is awesome.. Just works.. It can be setup as ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Well I've been busy putting together a bunch of Ruby versions of some tools we use at work, I've cleaned up the Google scripts for searching for emails within google. I've extended the tool into something that can pull from Yahoo! and MSN Live using their respective search APIs. These ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Something I found today which is really handy is you can use the Google App Engine as your own little Content Delivery Network.
Having been playing a little with the Firebug Extension called YSlow that does the Yahoo! tests to see if a web site is optimized, I was looking at ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Well two things happen in less than 24 hours, the new England Manager Officially starts his job tomorrow. I'm looking forward to seeing what he does in his first game, it will be a good indicator if he is going to really shake things up or is it going to ...
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