The problem
For the past year or so I have relied heavily on a T-Mobile broadband dongle for when I am out and about. Generally the speed has been OK – at least 1mbps when signal is good – though I have seen it as high as 4mbps at times.
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Improve Tmobile USB Mobile Broadband, PDA, Smartphone or Tether Picture Image Quality
HTTP statuscats API
After seeing the awesome HTTP status cats by Girliemac, I have knocked together a quick and easy API to allow webmasters, administrators (and anyone else really) to be able to use the status cats as a replacement for the standard error codes on a web server
Kirstie and Phils House Hunter App
A mate over at the BBC let me know that a cool iphone app for house hunting is on offer. Im not one for normally promoting products, but this one seems pretty cool
$500k bitcoin theft
Recently a user on the bitcoin forums reported a theft of a very large amount of bitcoins – 25,000 of them (worth approx $500,000 USD). See here. This is, to my knowledge, the first major theft of such a large amount of the virtual currency (assuming the reports are true!).
Western Digital SATA errors under linux
I have a problem with a SATA drive from western digital when running under linux. Sometimes errors get thrown and the device stops responding fr a while. The drive performed perfectly under windows. The errors show up in ‘dmesg’ like this
ant video downloader firefox addon tracking my browsing
Update May 20th 19:42Z+0100: Mozilla have re-instated the ant.com downloader to the addons site, however it is now classed as ‘experimental’. As I have said elsewhere in this article, it was pretty clear this mechanism was involved with traffic ranking, however it would have been great if the privacy policy had been correct and told me that the behavior happened and that it did have unique (U)UID’s & cookies in there. I wish ant.com the best of luck with their search engine project and software, just please – keep the privacy policy a little more accurate next time chaps?
*end update*
Updated location applet
Following the recent article on El Reg by Dan Goodin, I have updated the location applet I wrote back in Feb 2010
Earth from space
36 hours of our journey through space, as viewed from the Echostar 11 satellite at 110 degrees west, 22,000 miles above the USA. The video was taken from a live feed in 2009 and is sped up. The weird colours during ‘night time’ are down to the sun reflecting on the cameras filters. The little dots are (i assume) dead pixels on the camera.
Fix Pidgin Linux Ubuntu MSN SSL Unable to validate certificate error – omega.contacts.msn.com
UPDATED
MSN havent updated all of their servers to the new cert version, so this was causing intermittent problems. The fix here is updated (if you dont want to or cannot upgrade to latest version yet) and the below information is correct and working as of 24/11/2010.
Accurate Geolocation of your users
Thought I’d publish this one, was going to try to use it as some kind of technology worth selling (as most in this sector seem to do with 50 lines of code and an idea nowadays) but in a moment of brilliance remembered what things were like back in the day and what we stood for. Call me a changed man, if you will. You will be happy to hear that I still love and adore using excessive smilies 
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