I’m going to spring clean the backend server that hosts CreationRobot. It’s long overdue and the latest spanner that the server has thrown me is preventing me from editing old posts. Pretty frustraiting.
While I do this I’m going to update pretty much everything, including the theme. I’ve already done this with WordPress. It’s a good [...]

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Really nice post over on Wired today, covering art and encryption all in one. I may be strange but that is a nice thing to run across first thing in the morning. Read through it, it’s worth it.

The most celebrated inscription at the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, used to be the biblical [...]

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I tried to jailbreak my iPhone 3G earlier. No go. Not sure why, it just looped at the Apple logo while the software, pwnage, declared happily all was well. It wasn’t well. So now what. After a google I found some easy to follow instructions on how to recover your iPhone and get it working [...]

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I have a PAX write-up to complete. I’m doing some major work on my other site, LOb, tonight; hopefully I can say that is live shortly. By shortly I mean probably Friday.
Must stop twittering so much, it takes away from blog time.
Speaking of time, the focus of my time is shifting from tinking around to [...]

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Why Ping? Well it promotes your blog, well your blog post, to a wider readership. So it’s worth doing, as I’m assuming that you want people to read what you are writing. So what is a blog Ping? It notifies a service that your blog has been updated, the advantage of the sites below is [...]

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I have moy old work laptop, a 1.7ghz XP SP2 IBM thinkpad T42. I have a new one as well, a Lenevo thinkpad tablet X61. The tablet’s cool, and I love that functionality. What I hate is the fact the new laptop has no trackpad (ARG!) and worse, much worse, it is Vista.
I really don’t [...]

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10am PST, 6PM GST, 1PM EST
Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008

That’s in 30 minutes folks. So get ready. Full list of places below, just add 30 minutes to find your start time:

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Security is what I do, it’s how I earn my living – and it is odd. You end up thinking about the world in a completely different way to other people. I’ve walked into meetings before now and asked questions that no-one else has asked during the whole lifecycle of the meeting. It’s caused more [...]

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