DISQUS

I think the female blogger whose name escapes you is the lovely mostly-anonymous lady who writes asViolent Acres.

I'm a reader of her blog too, and like her straight-to-the-point attitude :)

I think I'd have to agree that generally depression is a sign that there's something wrong in your life, and a sign that you need to figure out just what it is that's wrong, and take action to fix it.

I think the female blogger whose name escapes you is the lovely mostly-anonymous lady who writes asViolent Acres.

I'm a reader of her blog too, and like her straight-to-the-point attitude :)

I think I'd have to agree that generally depression is a sign that there's something wrong in your life, and a sign that you need to figure out just what it is that's wrong, and take action to fix it.

This again?

This again?

Glad to hear it, I have to admit I wasn't that keen on ID to be honest; relying on Javascript to load comments from an external source seems like a nasty idea (and meant the comments + comment form were completely missing for me, until I set NoScript to allow them through).

Glad to hear it, I have to admit I wasn't that keen on ID to be honest; relying on Javascript to load comments from an external source seems like a nasty idea (and meant the comments + comment form were completely missing for me, until I set NoScript to allow them through).

Dude... are you ever going to let this rest? :)

Dude... are you ever going to let this rest? :)

They'll have a mission getting everyone to convert; Facebook has reached "critical mass" where enough users are there that they won't want to leave unless there's a very good reason.

If you have a network with all your friends on, and a network which is better but not used by anyone you know, which will you stick with?

They'll have a mission getting everyone to convert; Facebook has reached "critical mass" where enough users are there that they won't want to leave unless there's a very good reason.

If you have a network with all your friends on, and a network which is better but not used by anyone you know, which will you stick with?

My people, they have but one bunghole :)

My people, they have but one bunghole :)

That doesn't surprise me - I had the misfortune of using Vista last night to help set up a mate's new laptop, and was amazed at how slow it was, even on a pretty high-spec laptop.

It also got in my way at every opportunity, and was downright rude in some bits - prime example being clicking restart, to be given a message along the lines of "OK, well I'm going to do some updates now, I'll restart sometime later on when I feel like it, in the meantime you just sit there, don't you dare power off or reboot the machine".

I will never, ever, ever allow Vista anywhere near any of my machines. If I wasn't already a happy Linux user, I'd be heading over to Apple right about now too.

That doesn't surprise me - I had the misfortune of using Vista last night to help set up a mate's new laptop, and was amazed at how slow it was, even on a pretty high-spec laptop.

It also got in my way at every opportunity, and was downright rude in some bits - prime example being clicking restart, to be given a message along the lines of "OK, well I'm going to do some updates now, I'll restart sometime later on when I feel like it, in the meantime you just sit there, don't you dare power off or reboot the machine".

I will never, ever, ever allow Vista anywhere near any of my machines. If I wasn't already a happy Linux user, I'd be heading over to Apple right about now too.

Does the net need Yet Another Forum? :)

I'd imagine most of your blog readers and commenters are here to read your blog posts; if they want to participate in a discussion, it's likely to be discussing the content of one of your posts, which is what the post comments are for.

Does the net need Yet Another Forum? :)

I'd imagine most of your blog readers and commenters are here to read your blog posts; if they want to participate in a discussion, it's likely to be discussing the content of one of your posts, which is what the post comments are for.

As others have said, "pump and dump" spam certainly isn't new, but it's annoying.

I'm getting a fair few messages over the last week or so from someone who doesn't seem to have configured their spamming tool properly... it just has placeholders like:

06/03/2007 (13:53 GMT +03:00)
1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Date: %CURRENT_DATE_TIME

%MESSAGE_BODY

Muppets! :)

As others have said, "pump and dump" spam certainly isn't new, but it's annoying.

I'm getting a fair few messages over the last week or so from someone who doesn't seem to have configured their spamming tool properly... it just has placeholders like:

06/03/2007 (13:53 GMT +03:00)
1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Date: %CURRENT_DATE_TIME

%MESSAGE_BODY

Muppets! :)

@Aaron:
"I see some people saying “just set your status to XYZ!”, but that’s really not the point here. People still contact you. You still get messages. No matter what you’re doing, BAMF - right in the foreground you get a message from `lolfriend57`."

Well you need to tell your contacts - "if I'm marked as busy, do not send messages to me unless it's very important". If they refuse to respect that, just block them.

@Aaron:
"I see some people saying “just set your status to XYZ!”, but that’s really not the point here. People still contact you. You still get messages. No matter what you’re doing, BAMF - right in the foreground you get a message from `lolfriend57`."

Well you need to tell your contacts - "if I'm marked as busy, do not send messages to me unless it's very important". If they refuse to respect that, just block them.

To be fair, that "highly-sensitive" email will travel over the rest of the net in plaintext - so what if it makes the final jump in plaintext too? If it was that private, you'd encrypt it with PGP/GPG so that it's encrypted all the way from sender to recipient.

Any sensitive data shouldn't be published online. If you're going to carry out some highly secret or illegal activity, you *don't* put a note in your Google Calendar about it.

To be fair, that "highly-sensitive" email will travel over the rest of the net in plaintext - so what if it makes the final jump in plaintext too? If it was that private, you'd encrypt it with PGP/GPG so that it's encrypted all the way from sender to recipient.

Any sensitive data shouldn't be published online. If you're going to carry out some highly secret or illegal activity, you *don't* put a note in your Google Calendar about it.

Happy birthday Daniel! Hope you had a good day.

Happy birthday Daniel! Hope you had a good day.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned but I prefer to see the www there. Perhaps it's because I see a website as just one of the many services which a domain may offer, so using www makes it immediately intuitive what www.example.com will resolve to - it'll be the webserver(s) for the domain, whereas ftp.example.com will point to an FTP server, mail.example.com will be a mail server, gopher.example.com will be a Gopher server (remember them?) etc....