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Password Problem or User Problem?

July 6, 2011
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Anna was all over people being silly with their passwords yesterday, in the serious context of phone hacking at the News of the World. But do you remember *this* episode? Like accidentally reformatting your hard disk, or rolling your car into a canal, it’s the sort of thing you only do once – we hope. [...]

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Public Libraries Censoring Bloggers.

February 3, 2011

Censorship of the press is considered a heinous crime best avoided even by those political parties who would cheerfully see the UK emulate North Korea in all manner of things. Can you imagine the outcry if Oxfordshire County Council formally announced that no longer could you read the Guardian in their public libraries because they [...]

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Blogarithms.

January 6, 2011

The pace of life in the Blogosphere has changed. The house seems more serene; peaceful even – and purposeful. I would venture to suggest that Bloggers have grown up; the truculent adolescents with their monosyllabic chant of ‘shan’t’, ‘won’t’, ‘don’t like it’ have left home, off to wave banners and utter two word comments on [...]

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Casting ‘Total Politics’ into the Archipelago.

March 11, 2010

I confess to a currently fashionable perversion – I do occasionally sneak a late night look at ‘stat porn’, the web record of how many people are reading your blog, and where they come from. I try to restrict myself to two minutes once a week, I am scared of becoming addicted, and the last [...]

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