technology

Google+ thinks I blocked 23 people before I even joined?

By tigtog on 2011-07-18 • ( 5 )

I don’t remember telling any googlethang that I didn’t want to interact with one person, let alone 23! Especially when some of you in that “blocked” group are actually some of my favourite people?

Tech Tip: is your domestic WiFi secured?

By tigtog on 2011-07-18 • ( 6 )

Do you know how to check whether your home wireless internet service is secured or open for your neighbours to use, and if it’s not secured do you know how to make it secure?

Today in petty irritations

By tigtog on 2011-06-29 • ( 10 )

I choose my radio station in the car for its mix of mostly music and very few ads. Which is why it was most irritating, in the short space of listening time involved in the train station run, to hear today’s host…

Pottermore!

By tigtog on 2011-06-24 • ( 2 )

J K Rowling has announced on YouTube more details about her plans for the Pottermore website – “a unique online reading experience”

Quicklink: partial Australian web censorship starts in July

By tigtog on 2011-06-23 • ( 7 )

By “voluntary” they mean that the ISPs are filtering content identified as child abuse material voluntarily, not that they are giving their customers who don’t want to look at child abuse material anyway any choice about being gifted with a false sense of cybersecurity.

Farewell to the Space Shuttle

By tigtog on 2011-06-01 • ( 4 )

Just watched Endeavour‘s last landing at the Kennedy Space Center. For a little while, you can still see it sitting on the runway going through its final postflight checks, via this livestream.

Pedant’s Corner: Dear BBC Knowledge Channel,

By tigtog on 2011-05-31 • ( 8 )

Your earlier show “A Victorian Farm” could have been arguably marketed as “the dawn of the Industrial Age”, but it was well past noon by Edward’s time. Why does your marketing department have to embarrass all those poor historians like this?

Lazyweb: time management add-on that nags you just a bit?

By tigtog on 2011-05-18 • ( 7 )

I want a time management nagger that reminds certain people in this household that it really is time to go to bed.

Who’s using Dribbble?

By tigtog on 2011-05-06 • ( 4 )

Anybody? It looks very interesting, but I’m hesitant to sign up for yet another thing without knowing how other people are finding it usability-wise etc.