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Golden age manuals
Posted on Sunday, April 4, 2010 | No CommentsI spotted this post on Boing Boing a while back, and meant to write something about it at the time but kept putting it off. It's been languishing at the bottom of my Google Reader Starred Items ever since, and as I'm in the ... -
Router fun and games
Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | No CommentsI came home tonight to find that my Internet connection had crapped out, but that's not what this post is about. This post is about how Billion - that is, the company rather than the oft-misused numerical value - software engineers are perhaps not ... -
Google Latitude
Posted on Friday, February 6, 2009 | No CommentsGoogle has unveiled a new addition to the Google Maps for Mobile fold: Latitude. Basically, it's a service which tracks your location - or, technically, the location of your 'phone - and tells your friends where you are. Obviously, you can see your friends' ... -
Pidgin stopped working?
Posted on Monday, January 12, 2009 | No CommentsI use the open-source Pidgin IM client, and came home to discover it had stopped connecting to my MSN Messenger account with the error "Unable to retrieve MSN address book." Turns out that Microsoft have blocked the version of the protocol Pidgin's MSN plugin uses ...