Monthly Archives: November 2008

Connecting from the k608i with SSL

The mobile phone I travel with is pretty good and I use JabberMixClient to instant message from it. Version 2.1 finally got rid of the avatar-replacement bug, so I only wanted to solve my inability to make an SSL connection … Continue reading

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Spammers Silenced by Service Suppliers

Maybe, like me, you’ve noticed that you’ve had less junk email this week and you’ve been wondering why. News sites are reporting that a large spammer-friendly hosting service in California has been disconnected by its service providers after they were sent evidence about its activities. (Check out the “Next” links on the report […] Continue reading

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Webmaster Jargon for Website Owners

I wrote to a site owner last week and I thought I was writing to a webmaster. The site owner complained about some of the jargon and, while explaining who I thought I was writing for, I explained some of it because I think more website owners might benefit from these three explanations:-
“Expat-like terms” […] Continue reading

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Five goes free-to-air, ASTEFAQ updated

After seeing Five to launch on Freesat over on the DTG website, I tried rescanning 28e and a channel called 6335 (or similar) appeared in the channel list but it had a FIVE logo in the corner. Maybe those DOGs … Continue reading

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Bloggers Unite to Reunite Refugees

We celebrate Software Cooperative News being reunited with its .coop domain by celebrating this Bloggers Unite event. If you’re not aware of it already, please find out more about the problem of refugee separation from Refugees United. Thank you.

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Elections and SPI: Open Voting Foundation

So, as everyone knows by now, the party which is a lot like our Conservatives won the US elections (instead of the other party which is a lot like our Conservatives). I’m particularly touched by Aq’s comment:- The mood in … Continue reading

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Library Open Source Webinars (FYI/RFC)

Today is the first of the Library Open Source Webinars run by WiLS. It takes place in a few hours (2pm CST, which I think is 14:00:00-0600, or 20:00:00Z) and costs USD25 per session or USD100 for all six. Future … Continue reading

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Tasty New Microblog Flavour

I’ve flirted with it in the past and resisted it for a while, but you can now follow me on Identi.ca and Twitter if you are so inclined. Seems like I might have picked a good time to try this … Continue reading

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Misleading the Public: BT and Windmill Opponents

The Advertising Standards Agency provides an RDF Site Summary (RSS) feed of their decisions, which seems to be updated more-or-less weekly. It can be an interesting way to keep informed about which companies are making misleading claims and why. One … Continue reading

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