June 2010
1 post
Well done Japan 3 : 1 Denmark
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February 2010
1 post
Moving to Posterous
I am not thinking to continue with this Tumblr notepad. I’m looking to continue it at Posterous. Currently this is neilnotes.posterous.com
January 2010
16 posts
Computer security: fraud fears as scientists crack...
a movie rental company released an anonymous list of film-ratings taken from its 500,000 subscribers. Using a statistical “de-anonymisation” technique, the academics were able to identify individuals and their film preferences via guardian.co.uk
There’s no such thing as anonymous.
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Large databases can never be secure | Henry...
alleged he used the ECS system to look up the records of the prime minster, Alex Salmond, Jack McConnell, Celtic Football Club players, a newsreader named Jackie Bird and seven other BBC journalists via guardian.co.uk
Warning shot for public databases.
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UK ignores fears over Internet Explorer despite...
IE6 is extensively used by the British government, including UK armed forces: in response to parliamentary questions asked last year by Labour MP and former Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson, the Ministry of Defence, which has 300,000 desktops worldwide (including ships), said it was sticking with IE6, “and at the current time does not have a requirement to move to an updated...
Bob Willoughby obituary | Art and design |...
via guardian.co.uk
Photographer hired by Holywood studios to make actors look good.
How The New York Times Should Charge For...
via paidcontent.org
Idea to get paid customers - Make free content sell the value of paid content.
New Scottish Web Newspaper →
Reads like a riddle: It’s sort of paper but not paper. What is it?
“a major gap in the magazine market for a practical food magazine for mass-market...”
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Says a lot about the impracticality of what is currently on offer
Mags Come, Mags Go: New Titles Can Grow From The Rubble
| paidContent:UK
“Cameron dismissed Labour’s dossier as “complete junk” and...”
– Cameron error gives Labour first blood in election campaign | Politics | The Guardian
Election year starts.
“Lidl supermarket chain received several batches of high-grade cocaine at its...”
– A line too far for Lidl as 100kg of cocaine turns up in banana boxes | World news | The Guardian
Don’t get Thursday offers like that in England.
Burj Dubai: the world's tallest building... →
World’s tallest building officially opened
“8,000 European men were taken out one by one in 1995 and shot dead in a manner...”
– John Major rewrites history | Denis MacShane | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Tory John Major tries the Conservative trick of rewriting history to put him and the Tory Party in a good light.
Seesmic Blog: We've acquired Ping.fm. Get ready to... →
Seesmic.com buys ping.fm
What will happen to brizzly.com?
“No one had expected to find evidence of a warm, wet climate capable of...”
– New images show evidence of lakes on Mars, say scientists | Science | The Guardian
Life on Mars
“indecent picture of a child — “indecent” meaning showing the...”
– Body scanners: threat to children’s rights | Christina Zaba | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The madness of law that in stopping the use of body scanners at airports.
“the [Wi-Fi] technological equivalent of kryptonite in walls: chicken wire”
– Wi-Fi won’t travel through your house? It might be the wire in the walls |
Technology |
guardian.co.uk
The DIY Faraday Cage
December 2009
15 posts
“an important step in protecting the property rights of small inventors”
– Court bans sale of Word; Microsoft promises fix | World news | guardian.co.uk
Microsoft walking on other people’s intellectual copyright…again.
“SkyGrabber is a simple enough concept: grab the signals that spill from a...”
– SkyGrabber: the $26 software used by insurgents to hack into US drones | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Or as the maker says, “SkyGrabber is offline satellite internet downloader”
“Microsoft site was based on code stolen from a rival startup.”
– Microsoft admits stealing code from startup | Technology | guardian.co.uk
So what’s new.
“The abuse of section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 is infringing on the freedom...”
– Photography is our right, our freedom | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The Terrorists are laughing.
“They run into walls or hit pause by mistake. They swing the camera around until...”
– Charlie Brooker: why I love video games | Technology | The Guardian
Accurately describes my video gaming experience: why I hate video games.
“architectural photographer, Grant Smith, was filming a church in the City of...”
– Police stop church photographer - Channel 4 News
Sad times; photographers are terrorists in the eyes of police.
“Ground-source heating is a rapidly growing technology that has the potential to...”
– Energy stored underground could be used to heat homes | Environment | guardian.co.uk
“Here is the news… by iPhone. A BBC Radio 3 newsreader was forced to read...”
– Lost the news? There’s an app for that… - TV & Radio, Media - The Independent
Quick and brave thinking.
Neat visual display of the Twitter ReTweet in the...
via tweetie
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November 2009
24 posts
French university brings manuscripts of Stendhal... →
Marie-Henri Beyle, or Stendhal as he came to be known, has become the latest of France’s literary giants to be dragged into the 21st century courtesy of painstaking research and cutting-edge digital technology.
So far around 500 pages of Stendhal’s lesser-known works are available for viewing at manuscrits-de-stendhal.org
In April, 4,500 pages of his 1857 masterpiece Madame Bovary...
“since the editor said to have carried out the bullying is none other than Andy...”
– Roy Greenslade: National papers involved in a conspiracy of silence | Media | guardian.co.uk
Tory’s and National Media - silence is golden
“a Distributed, Decentralised Information Storage and Retrieval System”
– The dark side of the internet | Technology | The Guardian
Introducing Freenet
“I was only my consciousness and nothing else”
– Trapped in his own body for 23 years - the coma victim who screamed unheard | World news | The Guardian
Bookshops chain Borders battles to stave off... →
Times are a changing. Borders going bust.
“The final issue will mark just over 26 continuous years since Futures Micro...”
– The Guardian’s technology coverage: what happens next | Technology | The Guardian
Sad news that the Guardian Technology will no longer physically exist as a printed paper edition. Thursdays will not be the same.
“YouTube Direct that allows news and media organisations to request, review, and...”
– YouTube Direct service to link citizen reporters and news organisations | Media | guardian.co.uk
“The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely...”
– Ordnance Survey maps to go free online | Technology | guardian.co.uk
free provision of Ordnance Survey maps down to a scale of 1:10,000, (the Landranger map set is 1:25,000)
So it is possible to access MobileMe and Find My...
via tweetie —-Following the link in my original tweet, I was able to login to MobileMe and access all areas including Find My iPhone. The advantage of this is if a partner has lost their iPhone whilst out, it is possible to login to their MobileMe account and use the Find My iPhone facility. The original tweet: Experiment to access MobileMe in iPhone Tweetie via http://www.me.com/
Posted...
“scientist, Dr Brooke Magnanti, announced she was the writer better known as call...”
– Belle de Jour blogger unmasks herself as ‘big mouth ex-boyfriend’ looms | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Wonder if this makes science a more attractive subject to women.
“Police are also working closely with manufacturers and retailers of high-class...”
– internet-payslips-mortgage-fraud | UK news | The Observer
I wonder what else is banned.
DAB radio #FAIL
Listen! via AudioBoo
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“Margate desperately needs a new attraction, and this shelter could surely be it....”
– TS Eliot wrote The Waste Land in this Margate shelter | Books | The Guardian
I like this idea of an ‘Ezra Pound Shop’. Excellent ‘urban regeneration plan’.
“The physical world, at subatomic level, is highly symmetric: if you change an...”
– Israel Gelfand obituary | Science | The Guardian
Mathematician from Odessa, Ukraine whose discoveries enabled the creation of medical scanners and he founded the field of integral geometry, vital in medical imaging methods.