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Happy New Year
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A Happy New Year and best fortunes for 2K4!
Posted on Jan 02, 2004 at 13:40:29. [Comments for Happy New Year- 0]
CVS Tutorial
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After several previously unsuccessful attempts to start using CVS to manage my workflow, this lucid learn by example tutorial from the latest issue of PHP|Architect has pointed me in the right direction. Using the command shell version in Cygwin, I now have two repositories set up - the one for development projects, and the other for client websites. No more sticky and scribbled notes scattered around my office, and all those old (and somewhat mangled) README log files have been discarded for recycling. Of course once the basics were mastered it was time to move onto the Cederqvist!
Posted on Nov 18, 2003 at 18:04:44. [Comments for CVS Tutorial- 0]
How Safe Is Your Money?
Also relates to Security
The other day I received an email with reference to one of my online bank accounts, requesting that I confirm my email address (for security reasons) by supplying my account log-in ID and passwords! I do not feel obliged to mention the (reputable national) bank by name, but it is alarming that spambots and/or hackers are able to acquire email addresses associated with online banking accounts. The email itself was cloaked with the correct domain name for the bank, as was the URL link for confirming details. To further snare the account holder, the requested details had the correct (and quite specific) names used for this particular online bank account.
When I requested verification of the email from the bank, they confirmed they had no association with it, and that other users had also reported receipt. Surely as soon as the scam was first reported, all account holders should have been warned - an unsuspecting account holder could see their account wiped clean in a matter of seconds. I hope that users of internet bank accounts are aware enough not to fall for this kind of scam. Also, that the bank in question reviews its security strategies both externally and internally.
Posted on Oct 28, 2003 at 18:55:34. [Comments for How Safe Is Your Money?- 0]
What An Angel!
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My life at the monitor seems to have subdued the devil in me. Still my soul is now valued at a tidy sum of £23867, putting me just outside the top 40 percentile for purity!?
Posted on Oct 15, 2003 at 04:47:08. [Comments for What An Angel!- 0]
Bore Virgin
Also relates to Surfing
Pretty shattered right now. Had quite a long week, and having been on nights, switched my time clock this am to catch a quick surf on the Bore with Wiz and The Owl. Was quite a nipper, but we clocked a bit of mileage, and it was the only opportunity to give my resurrected mal (courtesy of Toots) a test drive before we head off to the French Mascaret in a couple of weeks. Having had 3 hours sleep the previous day, I had hopped to get an early night, but couldn't resist the Beeb late night movie, an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's The Virgin and The Gypsy. Always have a craving for period dramas, but this was made all the more appealing by the disastrous finale, in which the exploded dam brings an excuse for the gypsy to finally seduce the virgin. The somewhat tame footage of the waters rolling up the river from the dam, was actually filmed on the Severn Bore at the very spot we surfed this morning!
Posted on Sep 12, 2003 at 22:30:29. [Comments for Bore Virgin- 0]
