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Weekly Head Voices #15: Auto-tune my cloud.

February 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · life, nerd, tech, work

In this 15th edition of my weekly head voices, I move yet more of my life into the cloud, discover (years after everyone else) the delightful auto-tune internet meme and finally go all backyard-psychological whilst staring into the distance, obviously defocused, and waxing on about the purpose of this weblog.
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Weekly Head Voices #9: Windows 7 Geek-o-Rama.

November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · life, nerd, science, tech, work

I’ve unfortunately not been involved in any quantum entanglement accidents recently — teaching duties are mostly to be blamed for my two-week silence.  Besides spending at least a whole work-day every week on our Data Visualisation practical, I’ve been lecturing and also been preparing a new lecture block on information visualisation with a dash of [...]

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Weekly Head Voices #8: Uninterruptible Fun Supply

November 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment · life, nerd, science, tech, work

Dear readers,
Due to a small accident with a friend’s quantum entanglement device, I briefly got stuck in a high pressure reality vortex. The headaches have subsided, but I do still seem to be suffering from slight time compression artifacts. In any case, that’s why there’s only this one edition of the Weekly Head [...]

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Your GMail account CAN be hacked over insecure WiFi

November 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · life, nerd, tech

Today The Next Web posted an episode of BBC Watchdog where it was demonstrated how a GMail account was hacked through insecure (WEP) WiFi.

For those of you still wondering, I’d like to confirm that it is indeed possible to hack a GMail account over insecure WiFi: GMail does indeed always send your password through secure [...]

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Two PowerPoint 2007 tricks that could save your life

October 31st, 2009 · No Comments · tech, work

On Wednesday evening I was putting the finishing touches on probably the most important presentation I’ve given in the past few years.  As I was testing everything on my trusty little netbook just before bed-time, two scary problems reared their ugly heads: 1) An embedded MS-MPEG4 encoded AVI simply showed a black box when played [...]

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