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Why I didn't buy 'Killing in the Name'

December 21st, 2009 12 comments

Well I did buy it in 1992, or rather I bought the album; but in 2009 I did not buy it as part of the ratm4xmas campaign to keep Joe McElderry (read: Simon Cowell) from the UK Christmas No.1 spot. Here’s why …

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Beating noisy Twitter apps

November 29th, 2009 2 comments

tweetcloudI woke up this morning to the apparent viral spread of the TweetCloud app that unoriginally, but very nicely displays your most tweeted words of the year, or month, or .. you get the idea. Here’s mine ->

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jParser and jTokenizer released

November 14th, 2009 12 comments

After nearly two years I’ve finally gotten around to releasing my PHP JavaScript parser, although documentation is still thin on the ground.

The library has been split in two:

  1. jTokenizer – A JavaScript tokenizer designed to mimic the PHP tokenizer.
  2. jParser - The fully blown JavaScript syntactical parser which generates a parse tree.

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A B-listers first thoughts on Google Wave

October 18th, 2009 No comments

- or – “Confessions of a Google Wave N00b”

After scrounging myself a B-list Google Wave preview, I’ve been playing around with it for a week or so. Rather than read more and think deeply about it, I thought I’d blurt out my half-formed opinions now. In fact, this is one of those posts I’ll probably regret in a year’s time. It might look as naive as some of my early thoughts on Twitter when I didn’t quite get it, but that’s blogging for you… so here goes.

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Is Facebook Connect a phishing scam waiting to happen?

October 14th, 2009 No comments

Two things happened today that inspired me to write this post tonight.

  1. A brief back-and-forth on Twitter with @kaigani where I outlandishly claimed that Facebook Connect is a phishing scam waiting to happen
  2. The warning of another Twitter scam that typically exploits the layman‘s inability to spot a fake URL.

Facebook and Twitter both offer authentication services arguably known as “single sign-on”. Facebook Connect is a proprietary system, and Twitter offers a system based on the OAuth standard. These services do something quite marvellous – They allow you to authenticate with a another website without the third party ever seeing your password. What’s makes it even more handy is that you’re probably already signed in to these popular services, so you may not need to enter your password at all. The problem is when you do.

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