I took a round trip to Copenhagen yesterday for a meeting with our thesis supervisor. Although I drove from home as early as 4:45 in the morning I noticed something weird during the flight to Copenhagen - seat row no. 13 was missing? I found this a little bit weird, but didn’t think much of [...]
Archive for April, 2006
[Extreme] MacZot giving away free copies of SubEthaEdit (hopefully)
Published April 25th, 2006 in Personal and Web. 0 CommentsLast month I had a post about MacZOT and their BlogZot offer to AppZapper. Today they are doing it again with BlogZot 2.0, and this time it's the collaborative text editor SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys which is in the cheap stakes. Together MacZot and CodingMonkeys will award a total of $105,000 (!) in software licenses. That is [...]
Today I have updated my site to the newest release of Wordpress. While I was at it I also did a reformat of the pages on this site, utilizing the PHP Markdown format. This makes it a lot easier to edit text since it provides a much more human readable text than pure html does. I've [...]
CID Security - providing computer security for ordinary people
Published April 23rd, 2006 in Computer security and Web. 0 CommentsThere are currently numerous different solutions available for providing computer users with enhanced computer security. There is a problem with most of them though; They seem to only target the automated threats like computer viruses, spam, phishing, etc. Now enters a new player in town, called CID Security, which aims to be a major provider [...]
The permission system in Mac OS X can at times be truly weird. Today, when I was going to update iScrobbler, I tried to do a plain replace of the application in the /Applications folder. My daily user is currently set as an administrator account, so that should be quite easy. When I dragged the [...]
