Archive from July, 2004

Enter the googleDork

26 Jul 2004: Big respect to “professional hacker” called “Johnny” who’s put a great page up showing how Google alone can find examples of “inept or foolish” people on the web. Files containing “juicy info”. Files containing usernames! Files containing passwords!!! It’s all here. Amazing. Or perhaps not so amazing, I guess.

Health Club update

23 Jul 2004: I got shown all the machines at the Health Club today. They’re very scary.

Ooooh I’ve joined a health club

20 Jul 2004: Need a good laugh? Ask the receptionist at our new local health club to alert you when I finally give the gym a try, then pull up a chair and giggle uncontrollably for the whole five minutes I manage to keep up the exercise.

Fahrenheit 9/11: scary

15 Jul 2004: Went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 last night, and well worth the effort. Film critics don’t like it because they think its lack of objectivity damages the documentary genre, and because the publicity it’s generating overshadows more worthy films, but this stuff needs to get to the widest possible audience, and who cares how it’s done? One of the most frightening things for me was the suggestion – not really followed through in the film – that the invasion of Iraq was because the Saudis wanted it. The Saudis’ investment in the USA is so huge that if they pulled the plug, it could cause economic disaster. So when your biggest shareholder says jump, you jump. Scary.

Comic Sans is not a font

7 Jul 2004: I love all the campaigns to ban Comic Sans on the web, particularly, of course, bancomicsans.com, of which the highlight is the statistics page. This demonstrates how all communications will be in Comic Sans by 2030 and shows what it would mean. Actually, I’ve changed my mind, it’d be rather fun.

And then there were… not enough, actually

6 Jul 2004: As the new Chelsea manager decides he wants to trim his squad down to a core couple of dozen players, I look at the Ipswich squad and realise we have about twenty players in total, of which half a dozen are youngsters who have virtually no first-team experience. We’ll be struggling to fill the bench some weeks if we’re unlucky with injuries and suspensions. And this is a team which finished 5th in the Premiership (and was one miss away from a Champions League place) in 2002…

Throwing out the CDs? Maybe

1 Jul 2004: I read an article today about how quickly hard-disk-based music had changed the author’s outlook on his music collection, and I realised I was in complete agreement. Six months ago I’d have been of the school which said “downloadable music has its place, but unless it has a massive cost advantage or something, I’ll always want proper CDs”. After all, it was a wrench to go from nice big vinyl album sleeves to pokey little CDs; I’m hardly going to give them up completely, am I? Well, I’m beginning to wonder. The author of the article said that since he got his iPod and started using his computer as a music source, his CDs had begun to gather dust. And [...]

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