13 November 2013
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This book demonstrates the statistical pattern known as the long tail: a few things I understand relatively well and a much larger proportion that are beyond my grasp. Despite years working with information systems this makes me starkly aware that … Continue reading
12 November 2013
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Being able to undo a mistake is one of the features that can greatly improve a computer interface and even better when it can let you travel an arbitrary number of steps back in time. Today I have been brushing … Continue reading
25 October 2013
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Not literally! However, I am exploring making a virtual move from my longstanding web-den.org.uk domain to the ever so slightly shorter webden.org.uk. When I originally sought a personal domain name, I had already established my Webden identity but webden.org.uk was … Continue reading
23 October 2013
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Air is invisible but it is amazing what difference pumping a bit more into your tyres will do. Because the tyres are the link between the bike and the road, they are a critical part of the interface and a … Continue reading
17 October 2013
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It was probably a decade or more ago that the big debate among penguinistas (Linux aficionados) was “is Linux ready for the desktop?” I think the answer is, and has been for some time, a decided yes. My main machine … Continue reading
11 October 2013
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It appears that I didn’t manage to purge all traces of infection on my website at my previous attempt. A visitor who had come via the Selfsufficientish forum kindly took the trouble to drop me a note that they had … Continue reading
13 September 2013
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I feel that I have fairly good password habits, covering all the commonly suggested bases of making them long, containing a mixture of upper and lower case letters, numbers and punctuation. A tip I haven’t seen so often is to … Continue reading
6 September 2013
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It appears that my WordPress site did have some malware embedded in it. Thanks to my friends who alerted me as it didn’t appear to fire off every time; extra eyeballs make these problems easier to spot. Mind you, even … Continue reading
5 September 2013
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That is the number of items on my computer, according to the virus check I ran last night (which also suggests they are all clean). That is a fairly mind-boggling number; not by sheer size but because I could easily … Continue reading
29 August 2013
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One of the features I like (and frequently use) in Windows 7 is hitting the Windows key and one of the cursor keys to make a window fill either the whole screen (up), half the screen (left or right) or … Continue reading