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Archive: 2005 December

Internet Exploder

31 December 2005 14:34

Categories: Blogging, Internet, Technology

I hadn’t realised quite how bad Internet Explorer was.

…MSIE was 98% unsafe. There were only 7 days in 2004 without an unpatched publicly disclosed security hole.

Firefox was 15% unsafe. There were 56 days with an unpatched publicly disclosed security hole. 30 of those days were a Mac hole that only affected Mac users. Windows Firefox was 7% unsafe.

Via The Devil’s Kitchen, who has other reasons why you should dump IE as well.

I’ve been using Firefox for ages. There isn’t much reason why you shouldn’t.

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Upgrade done

31 December 2005 01:52

Categories: Admin

Well, that seemed to go okay. A little hairy moment, but I don’t think I need to worry about it. I’ll still probably be fiddling with stuff later today, but as always, if there are any problems please let me know.

Update: I’ve made some changes to the menu on the left. The ‘Best of’ section has gone (the page itself is still there, but the link is gone), because I discovered that I haven’t updated it since July, and I simply can’t be arsed with it. The other links that have gone can be found in the ‘About me’ page.

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Evilest programme ever

30 December 2005 17:50

Categories: Asides, Humour, Music, Television

The evilest programme ever is on television tonight. I was just looking at the television listings and saw that Phil Collins is on Room 101. I hope he slips over and falls in. And takes Paul Merton with him.

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Don’t be surprised if it breaks

30 December 2005 17:26

Categories: Admin

This evening I’m gonna do a lot of fiddling with the blog and upgrading to WordPress 2.0. So over the next day or so things might well look weird, and a few minor things will be changing. Just warning you.

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German tracks may merge

30 December 2005 16:03

Categories: Asides, Formula 1

Hockenheim is in a spot of financial bother, putting the German Grand Prix under threat. Now the Nürburgring is offering to share the German Grand Prix. I think this is quite right — they should be doing this anyway. With more and more races fighting for a space in the tight F1 calendar, there is no reason why a country should have two Grands Prix. Why not have circuits taking it in turns more often? I think it would be good to get a bit more variety in the F1 circuits anyway.

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