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Mon May 28 21:43:07 2007 GMT: Google's misleading response to privacy concerns
Mon May 28 21:06:00 2007 GMT: greylstd 0.2
Wed May 23 17:41:07 2007 GMT: Google's goal to organise your daily life
The Financial Times has a worrying article about "Google's ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users". One of the key statements is that "[...] gathering more personal data was a key way for Google to expand [...]"
Fri May 11 22:34:22 2007 GMT: Broken DNS Setup
Broken DNS setups are probably quite common and usually not worth mentioning, but it's kind of odd when a web site that describes itself as "the Leader in Network Knowledge" doesn't get its DNS setup right.
The domain networkworld.com has two nameservers listed at the registrar, but the authoritative nameservers only return a NS record for ns1.nww.com.
Wed May 09 17:41:19 2007 GMT: JabRSS User Accounts Cleanup
On Monday I cleaned up inactive user accounts for JabRSS (inactive means users that haven't received a single message from JabRSS in more than half a year). This brought down the number of registered users to just over 2000 (from around 3000).
Sat May 05 14:58:58 2007 GMT: Swindon Local Elections
This Thursday we had local elections in Swindon. Maybe the most exciting thing about the election was that you could opt to cast your vote over the Internet (even though doubts over its security remain).
Sun Apr 29 20:00:38 2007 GMT: Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
I have just upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04). The update process was quite smooth, but I did notice two issues: the sitecopy package appears to be broken and there are some dependency issues with firefox/libxul-dev (these packages depend on conflicting libnspr packages).
Tue Apr 24 20:23:23 2007 GMT: Salzburg Holiday
Mon Apr 09 11:01:38 2007 GMT: Easter Sunshine
Thu Mar 29 18:22:54 2007 GMT: Riots at Gare du Nord
Wed Mar 28 21:30:47 2007 GMT: Vive la France
Sun Mar 18 22:20:59 2007 GMT: St. Patrick's Day 2007 in London
