Monthly Archives: May 2007

Doctor Who by Dennis Potter

Don’t get me wrong – the current episodes of Doctor Who (Human Nature) are just the best ever, and I think David Tennant is the best Doctor ever. But in Doctor Who Confidential over on BBC Three, David Tennant says … Continue reading

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Why Your Neighbour’s WiFi security is so poor

I think I might now know why there are so many unsecured wireless computer networks around. I could never understand this, it seems so stupid to leave your network wide open. Security is easy enough to set up with MacOS … Continue reading

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WiFi Linux on a shoestring

CAUTION: this is a geeky Linuxy post that’s really just here because I’ll forget how I did this in about a week and I might want to do this again some time… Ages ago I put Xubuntu – a cut-down … Continue reading

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My name is Jon Ronson, I live in Wisconsin, I work in the lumbermill there

Our friend Georgina and I both love to hate Jon Ronson. His Guardian column makes us both scream and yet we always read it, week in week out. That and Charlie Brooker’s TV review are the only things I always … Continue reading

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