Yearly Archives: 2006

Guy pwned recruiting ‘hackers’

Posted on December 22, 2006 by Chris

The communications director for Montana’s lone congressman solicited the services of two men he falsely believed to be criminally minded hackers-for-hire — with the expressed goal of jacking up his college GPA — during an exchange that spanned 22 e-mails … Continue reading →

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Beermas Tree

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Chris

My kind of Christmas Tree, no pine needles to drop! Original Note to self: Mirror image rather than hot-linking.

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Advertisement War

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Chris

Advertisement War: BMW started it, Audi answered…Bentley chairman had final say. It humoured me so…

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Iron Maiden Roadtrip

Posted on December 20, 2006 by Chris

So, me and my best friend got tickets to see Iron Maiden all was involved was a minor road trip. The gig was in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, my mate was still at Lancaster University at the time, and I was in Bristol. … Continue reading →

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Mince Pies, Innocent? I think not

Posted on December 14, 2006 by Chris

More over zealous health and safety restrictions in action. One word…madness! </rant type=”mini”>

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Securing Firefox DNS Lookups

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Chris

It always amazes me what nice features can be found in about:config, such as sending DNS requests to a SOCK’s proxy.

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Vista License

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Chris

I forgot to blog this interesting article about Windows Vista’s licensing.

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Home

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Chris

I am home from university for a nice 4 week break, none of this 2 weeks that school kids gets.

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Snake eats ‘gator

Posted on December 10, 2006 by Chris

Weird but true.

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Bristol – Lowest ‘Yob’ count

Posted on December 9, 2006 by Chris

According to this article Bristol has the lowest amount of anti social behavior, I personally am not sure who they asked!

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