A weird thing happened to me today. A rogue group invite was sent from my Facebook account. While I would normally admit I could have mis-clicked something, it included a message that I would never have typed. This could have been a bug with Facebook, or it could have been someone accessing my account. I [...]

I’m an avid reader of ZDNet for my technology news, and today came across Adobe screw-up leaves Flash flaw unpatched for 16 months. I’ve never been a fan of Flash, I see it as some kind of blight on the internet. When I was a Windows network administrator, I often had to tell users to shut [...]

One thing that always amuses me about electronic communication in general, is the amount of spam one can get. I check this blog regularly to clean out the dozens of spam comments I get daily. Still, I suppose I should be pleased. Most of them aren’t “performance pills”. Hey, bot. Yes you! This is moderated. [...]

My PC runs Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu 9.10. Windows for Adobe software and gaming, Ubuntu for development. Recently my Nvidia graphics card started playing up, so I removed it. Thankfully, my motherboard has a fairly adequate ATI card built in. I removed the card, restarted Windows and continued as normal. Windows detected the card, [...]