Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Is Facebook Really Bad for You?

[As ever, this is on the BBC News website]
The examination period is always stressful, both for those sitting GCSEs, A levels and the International Baccalaureate and for their parents and siblings who get ‘second-hand stress’ without even a certificate to show for their efforts.
My friends and I used to revise together, hoping that it would [...]

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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 23rd through July 30th

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 23rd and July 30th:

Web curbs for Olympic journalists – What a surprise…
Plenty of Blame to Go Around in Yahoo Music Shutdown – Ed Felten knows who to blame, and I agree with him entirely.
Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip… – nasty little piece of [...]

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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 17th through July 22nd

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 17th and July 22nd:

Matasano?s ?blunder? « Ars Militaria: Research Institute of Systematic Misanthropy – Outline of what is believed to be Dan Kaminsky's cache poisoning finding
RANDOM.ORG – Coin Flipper – I really like this… especially the older coins
Techdirt: A Detailed Explanation Of How The BSA Misleads With [...]

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Friday, July 18th, 2008

My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 13th through July 17th

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 13th and July 17th:

iPhone problems – how carphone warehouse took my iphone & ruined my credit rating
Mac vs PC – YouTube – Mac vs. PC – Halo Style
Android – Google’s Android platform: not so open after all
Schneier on Security: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks – We need a firefox extension [...]

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