Article Found at MenaFN.Com via Simply Fired: BERLIN, Dec. 3 (UPI) — A German man is fighting his employers’ decision to fire him for violating a voluntary no-smoking policy that rewarded him for giving up cigarettes. Sandro Beier was terminated by Laserline after a private detective the company hired caught him smoking in his backyard, […] … Read More »

Sony’s “other” DRM software can leave your computer open to attack reports the BBC: The statement warned that anyone putting a music CD bearing the MediaMax software in their PC introduced a vulnerability that malicious hackers could hijack to win control of a machine. Users were vulnerable to this loophole even if they did not […] … Read More »

Sorry to anyone inconvienced with the blog being up and down today, I’ve been messing around with the back-end database, admin and the adverts. I’ll stop fiddling for a while now! … Read More »

The BBC has posted an article about 3 new critical flaws in Windows (quelle surprise): Microsoft warned Windows users of three critical flaws in its software and urged them to install patches. The security holes affect the way Windows handles certain graphic files. If left unplugged, they could allow hackers and virus writers to take […] … Read More »

Sony BMG has admitted that instead of the 20 CDs containing the much criticised Sony XPC Root Kit Software there are in fact 50 titles in their catalogue that will muck up your PC. Sony are recalling all affected CDs and offering customers an exchange when the Root Kit-less versions are released.The Root Kit has already […] … Read More »

Sony has finally bowed to the pressure put on it by the media, lawyers and the general public and have decided to remove the DRM software from future CD releases. The Sony DRM rootkit has been classed as “Malware” by several leading anti-virus companies and it has already been used to spread malicious Trojans. However, Sony […] … Read More »

Brain Lateralization Test Results Right Brain (34%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain.Left Brain (52%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain Are You Right or Left Brained?personality tests by similarminds.com Note – Find out your basic MBTI Here … Read More »

Dumb Domains Experts Exchange…. http://www.expertsexchange.com Doh! More funnies at Orange Dot. It’s amazing the difference a carefully placed hyphen can make! Rudeness! Google makes you enter rude words shocker! … Read More »

Here’s a little something I knocked up whilst fiddling with javascript. If you use the Bloglines News Aggregator then you can install the following on your links bar to quickly subscribe to feeds Subscribe with Bloglines To save the bookmarklet, right click > Add To Favourites and save it in your “links” folder. When the […] … Read More »

I have just downloaded some Pinging software that will send a ping out to 14 or so Blog Directories from your desktop. You can download “Pong” here. I’ll let you know if I notice any increase in traffic due to the pinging. Note that you need the Java Run-Time enviroment installed to use it which […] … Read More »