Gordon Brown's "National Security Strategy"
The Times and the BBC are carrying the story of our PM’s new strategy for dealing with major events such as terror attacks or flooding.… Read More »Gordon Brown's "National Security Strategy"
Rob Hallam
Glasgow University graduate. I have wide-ranging interests - please see my about page either here or at roberthallam.com.
Visualising The YouTube Pakistan Outage
There is a good post by bluesky74656 detailing how you you can get a pretty cool representation of the BGP routing mess that took out… Read More »Visualising The YouTube Pakistan Outage
Soup Crimp
Soup, Soup-a-tasty Soup, soup-a-spicy Carrot and coriander; chili chowder! Crouton, crouton – crunchy friends in a liquid broth I am gaspachio – oh! – I… Read More »Soup Crimp
Firefox Beta 3
As a PortableApps Firefox user, I downloaded Beta 3 of Firefox 3. It’s pretty slick looking, and there’s a whole host of new features. I… Read More »Firefox Beta 3
Back to Ubuntu
So I’m suppose to be revising for the Big Test™ that I’ve got tomorrow, but instead I decided to reboot in Ubuntu. And by gosh,… Read More »Back to Ubuntu
Thumbnails Still In WordPress
(follow-up to my previous post) And in other news, I jump to conclusions too quickly. WordPress does not generate thumbnails for lage images – I’ve… Read More »Thumbnails Still In WordPress
Thumbnails Removed From WordPress?
While uploading photos, I noticed that the “thumbnail” option seems to have been removed from the latest version (2.3.2 at time of writing) of WordPress.… Read More »Thumbnails Removed From WordPress?
Malware Woes: procsystem.exe
So I was being plagued by ZoneAlarm alerts for outbound DNS requests by an unknown process on a laptop. The offending process was procsystem.exe. A… Read More »Malware Woes: procsystem.exe
My Name is…
I’ve been doing a few Arabic classes recently, and last night we finally had enough knowledge to put together a close approximation of our names.Read More »My Name is…