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It's happened again; Seth posts about something that just happened to me.If it were really a security issue, they'd have to enforce it completely. If it's just a silly policy that someone dreamed up one day, it's sure to annoy people. Because it's irrational. Because it's not enforced in a way that makes sense.I went to the ...

With just one day to go, I wake up and realize that I never did link to Scott Cate's promotion in aid of Diabetes. EasySearchASP.NET is cool regardless, so it's worth checking out. (One side-effect of using this title - at least 1 in 3 developers are named Scott so I'm guaranteed to get a lot of readers for this post ...

I'm not sure how they do this, but I got a call on Friday from Amex asking if I'd purchased anything from QVC (a shopping channel on TV) or some mom+baby website. They said that the purchases seemed suspicious and they wanted to check. I hadn't, and someone had got enough of my card details to start making purchases. It could have ...

Take a look at www.theroadkings.com - notice especially the URL’s as you click around the site. The whole thing is ajax-driven, with no way of linking to a specific page (at least without downloading the ajaxEngine.js and reading the file). It’s a superb example of using latest kick-ass technologies completely inappropriately. Why ...

And straight out of left-field is a link to a guy that I read every week when he sends us out a new poem. Yes, nerds, poem. I don't think I've linked to Robert Bruce at www.knifegunpen.com before, and since I'm on a conference call right now I can't be bothered to search. If I have before, sorry. But it's still ...

Having visited the ER recently I was reminded of this. If you don't have a Last Will and Testament, Living Will, Power of Attorney or a Medical Power of Attorney you should get one. Here's how: www.legacywriter.com I was very impressed by this company. You fill in some very simple forms online and they create state-specific versions of ...

A comment on Barry Bonds hits 756th homer made me Google "Barry Bond Cheat" and that was when I heard (for the first time I admit, I'm English remember!?) about how Barry got caught for steroid use and how he's generally not liked. What a shame when someone beats the most important record in baseball and few people want to ...

I'd love to update some of my sites - they could sure use some updating. But I'm crap at web design. The whole "pretty" thing is sadly out of my reach. I want someone to design the layout, make it beautiful, cut it up and send me css+markup that I can skin the site with. I've actually started asking around, and found ...

Jasmine has returned after 5 weeks in the shop. An old woman ran a stop sign and did a number on the front end of the car and although her insurance company picked up the tab, it still took forever to get fixed. No-one makes parts for this car, so everything had to be found and bought from individuals or junk yards. Took her out at lunch time ...

I'm betting that you can remember a lot of numbers, right? If you're anything like me, you'll remember the license plates of your Dad's cars from *cough* 30 years ago. (btw, they were OVO 914F and VFJ 158J - I wonder where they are now?) Today I realized that I can remember passwords that I'm sure non-geeks would have a hard ...