hackbash

More in our occasional series of links that don’t get a lot of love.

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I’ve been writing a How it Works on OpenID. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a decentralised ID system that stops the user having to remember and provide separate login credentials for every online service. Instead, you assert ownership of a URI which becomes your OpenID login.
Eyes glazing over? Therein lies the problem.
I’m […]

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You can take your SI units and all your battles between imperial and metric measures and shove ‘em, because, as the BBC will tell you, there is only one true measure of size: the London double-decker bus.
This is probably my single favourite thing about the BBC News website. Whenever there’s a Big Thing, you know, […]

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I’m used to celebrity endorsements, or even celebrity beauty journalist endorsements, but I’d normally expect recommendations from my friends to come up in conversation. Tooling around on Facebook, then, I had a bit of a double-take at this advert, which recommends a range of health supplements on a friend’s behalf.
Anyone else had one of these […]

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We’ve recently hired another journalist at iCrossing, the wonderful Jo-ann, but we’re still looking for one more to work with us in the Brighton office.
The job advert wording is here. Attention to detail, experience, enthusiasm and an ability to spell ‘liaise’ are the main things we’re looking for.
If you’re interested, or know someone who might […]

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Facebook has rolled out its integrated chat client, which is nice if you like that sort of thing.
Adam quickly spotted that it tells the people you’re chatting to what else you’re up to, which provides almost as much scope for hilarity as the default ‘reply all’ behaviour on group messages.
Fortunately, it turns out you can […]

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We’ve been bashing Microsoft a bit lately, though I don’t notice anyone but Scott rushing to their defence. It’s a lazy pastime, so I promise to be nice to them. After this post.
I started thinking about the opprobrium heaped on Microsoft by bloggers, commentators and anyone else who’s used its products. Much of it unfair, […]

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Hmmm. I’ve just updated our software to Wordpress 2.5. Despite my recent form and the terrifying detailed upgrade instructions, it appears to have worked.
At least, I’d written that before trying to upload this screenshot which, predictably, broke. There’s a fix, but I seem to be channelling Alannis Morisette at the moment. Yesterday, someone sent around […]

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I’ve just read that Microsoft was spoofing itself with the Vista SP1 video.
I’m not so sure - they’ve got a pretty long and rich history of making shite promotional films, such as this one, which just keeps on giving.

Still, fair play to MS if it is a spoof - I certainly believed it. They haven’t […]

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I will contribute some text to Hackbash at some point soon. But for now I just wanted to share this very special and beautiful thing.

They seem to have cut off the bit at the end where Charlie Brooker appears on stage with an Uzi.
Perhaps we have to pay Micro$oft more money before we get that […]

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