At the day job, a worrying number of clients (worrying to me at least) are asking us to deploy their websites "sans SSL". It's left me wondering whether one of the reasons for the low uptake of SSL is that we're not explaining it well enough?
An interesting perspective on a pet subject of mine – the ephemeral nature of digital information:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527451.300-digital-doomsday-the-end-o...The latest PubliSite-powered website hits the streets: www.mintinventories.com
Running an FTP client on your mobile phone is one thing, but running an FTP server is quite another! High geek points to these guys:
SwiFTP: http://code.google.com/p/swiftp It hammers your battery, but it's perfect for the terminally lazy who can't be bothered plugging in a USB cable to transfer files.Good grief. For years I suspected that GMail wasn’t processing addresses correctly – I never looked into it because I rarely used my GMail account.
Now that I’m using my Gmail account regularly I thought I’d better work out what’s going on – it turns out that GMail ignores dots in usernames:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10313
e.g. john.smith@gmail.com == johnsmith@gmail.com == j.o.h.n.s.m.i.t.h@gmail.com
Well that clears that up!
It’s been 6 years, but it’s time to say goodbye to Windows Mobile – and hello to Android: http://www.mrceri.co.uk/news/2010/#Jan10_02