Author: Harold
Protected: Firsts
Elaborate televised prank on Belgium’s terrible phone company – Boing Boing: At last, sweet revenge on a customer service call center.
Lego Dalek | Flickr – Photo Sharing!: I wonder if you can buy all the parts for this separately?
Study like a scholar!
awesome indeed
[23:50] fiddlingfrog: Ever since I learned that Keanu Reeves is actually immortal, I’ve enjoyed all his movies a lot more.
[23:51] fiddlingfrog: I imagine him and Dick Clark swordfighting atop the New Year’s Eve ball, to a Queen cover band playing in Times Square far below.
[23:51] gerg: that would be …. awesome
Physical security in the wireless age
Oh yeah, I just bought a new wallet today and it should arrive sometime next week. My current wallet is still in good shape, and it has lasted for quite a number of years, but since I spent the day calling all the credit card companies and telling them we’d be out of the country, please don’t deny the charges, I discovered that all of my credit cards have RFID chips in them now. So I decided to get myself an RFID blocking wallet. It’ll go nicely with the RFID blocking passport sleeve that Gill got me for Christmas. Plus, it looks to be a bit deeper in the currency pouch, so hopefully the UK money won’t be sticking out of my wallet now.
Protected: Odds and ends
Protected: Not buying it
Sonuva….
For the last few weeks, since mid-December, I’ve been battling a gradual reduction in free hard drive space on my laptop. I’d get the low free space warning, delete some stuff, hope that was the end of it. Get the warning again, uninstall some programs, hope it was done. I thought it was a virus, or maybe malware of some kind, but all scans came up clean.
Today I finally smartened up and searched for the symptom (losing free space on hard drive) and eventually one of the many pages and forum threads I find directed me to a program called Treesize which quickly and simply shows you how much space each folder and file on the hard drive is taking up. So I downloaded and ran it and I discovered that Norton has stashed over 13 gigabytes of virus definitions on my hard-drive. Looking into it it seems that since I’m running an older version of Norton it isn’t properly deleting the old virus definitions when it updates, and so I was gradually losing hard drive space. All I had to do was to turn off automatic installation and it stopped eating my hard drive.