Archive for June, 2009

Links for 2009-06-27

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen, [jwz has] ported Dali Clock to the Palm Pre.
Phil Hands explains how to do passphrase-less ssh properly.

Web developers who don’t understand how email works

Friday, June 26th, 2009

More annoying that companies who don’t believe ‘+’ in an email address is valid, are ones that did until their site got redesigned, leaving you unable to log in and having to explain the problem to people that can only read scripts. I’m looking at you, MBNA.
Update:

CustomerService@MBNA.co.uk
SMTP error from [...]

Some harsh realities

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Recently BitFolk has been accused of overcharging for disk space.
In general I don’t try to defend BitFolk’s price-point – the unmanaged VPS hosting market is flooded and it is very easy to find stuff hosted out of the US or continental Europe for just a couple of pounds per month. Clearly I am not [...]

Busy family weekend

Monday, June 15th, 2009

My mother and her partner Alan came down to London on Friday afternoon to see a show (Oliver!) I’d bought them tickets for. We let them do their own thing on the Friday, though I was pleased to hear that their tickets were front row seats which they very much enjoyed. Despite me [...]