Archive for October, 2006

I’ve been using my MacBook Pro at home with a Windows keyboard for a while now. It’s been OK, although slightly annoying that the Cmd and Alt keys are reversed (which you can switch over, but that also reverses them on the Apple keyboard I use at work…).

More recently I’ve had one irritating problem though, [...]

Phishing. What a stupid word. Lord knows how we’ll persuade regular computer consumers to adapt to it. This is quick and techie-friendly anti-phishing technique, and a Mail.app gripe.

For those of us more tech-savvy (and in possession of multiple email aliases), I twigged upon a simple technique to neuter scam mails without causing the spam filter [...]

You get ‘Cooking with Ben’. No, you don’t ‘get cooking with Ben’, that would be something else entirely (and surely of restricted participation). Instead you get this:

‘Cooking with Ben’
‘Cooking with Ben’ on Vimeo

I wanted a play with Gawker, and figured food preparation was as good a subject as any. Then I went too far. Oh [...]

Like many others, I’ve joined in Pink for October, an effort to help promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

It’s not the most elaborate of redesigns there’s ever been, but then there never has been an elaborate redesign on this site anyway.

I’m considering putting some Google ads up to raise money for the cause (I don’t have [...]