Archive for April, 2005


Car thieves ’steal back vehicles’

Saturday, April 30th, 2005
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"A gang of car thieves has been selling stolen motors and then stealing them back from the new "owners", police say.
Victims have been conned into paying up to £25,000 for an executive or 4x4 car, advertised in a trade magazine."
BBC News 
An example of how token based security (that is, using a pnysial item, such as [...]

My reading - April 30

Saturday, April 30th, 2005
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Currently I'm reading Kevin Mitnick's book "The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security". If you don't know who Mitnick is then take a look at this page . He was the most notorious hacker ever to be captured. His official site can be found here .
Very interesting book that shows that [...]

Windows XP PowerToys

Saturday, April 30th, 2005
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If you run Windows XP and don't have the Microsoft PowerToys installed then you don't know what you are missing! There are free tools made available by Microsoft to improve you Windows XP experience.
There are 11 to choose from:

ClearType Tuner
HTML Slide Show Wizard
Open Command Window Here
Alt-Tab Replacement
Tweak UI
Power Calculator
Image Resizer
CD Slide Show Generator
Virtual [...]

Dissecting WordPress themes

Saturday, April 30th, 2005
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Fantastic blog entry detailing WordPress themes .
Many thanks UrbanGiraffe! That will be very useful.

Beginning Programming - Updated cover

Saturday, April 30th, 2005
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Kudos to Barnes & Noble for updating the cover image for "Beginning Programming" ... all the others big online bookstores seem to be running off the old, incorrect cover image.
Beginning Programming 

Plug safety

Saturday, April 30th, 2005
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Whenever I throw out a dead or defective electrical item I normally scavenge a few parts off of it - usually the cable and the plug. However, I never leave the cable with a plug attached to it with a free end with the wires showing - this in an invite for it to [...]

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