The Register reports about how Microsoft are closing down their Wallet facilities due to a court order. However, at the same time they are opening up MSN Wallet. Surely if they can’t get their first wallet working correctly and securely enough for a judge, is anyone going to trust the next attempt especially with all of Microsoft’s recent security problems?
oh – and by the way, “dumpster diving” has been reported in Eastbourne Sussex (an odd term considering dumpsters are not available in the uk) where people have gone through rubbish in order to get credit card details. Do you securely dispose of your credit card receipts? Have you noticed that many of them contain your full credit card number AND your signature?

Robbing a bank? Latest sources recommend that you don’t take your family along with you whilst you do so. Your 3 year old son could slow you down. As for your getaway car, then its not a good idea to use a cab and have your wife and daughter in it!

CyberSquatter????? Hope you live in Virginia then! According to latest legal news, a domain name is a piece of property registered in Virginia (as that is where the .com registry company is) and therefore subject to Virginian law and their “absent property owner” clauses.

ewww! A student in Cardiff managed to overdose on Caffeine! Now thats scary
Thanks so

If you send dodgy emails or surf dodgy sites from your work pc, then beware. According to the latest survey, its the number 1 reason for being sacked incidentaly, if you have a story of naughty emails that you wish you hadn’t sent, then check the web page as the BBC are looking for people to do a program on….Will – you might want to tell them about the time you decided to take that sicky!!

In the latest flaw in Internet Explorer that Microsoft are playing down, where Secure Web Sites can be spoofed, a variant has appeared where it is possible to spoof emails in Outlook to look like they have come from someone and “prove” it by signing the email ( a long recognised method of identification and security!). The guy who discovered it recommends everyone sends Bill Gates a signed email from Bill Gates in order to get microsoft to wake up and smell the coffee!

Google is still trying to get their site unblocked to Chinese users…..some web sites are reporting that the Chinese government are denying they blocked the site, but if they did do it, then they would say that wouldn’t they! More information from the Register

Just finished watching disk2 of 24 – a brilliant series, although it does have several logical flaws in it. The funny thing is that it is meant to be filmed in “real time” but there are a lot of gaps where nothing seems to happen to anyone. That and a whole hours episode only takes 40 minutes as there are spaces for 20 minutes of commercials – that seems to be a lot of adverts for an hours tv programming. Still I’m not complaining as I don’t get the ads on DVD 🙂 They are also starting to film a second series soon – should be good!

China are allegedly blocking access to Google! don’t know how I’d survive without google :-). This is mainly to do with the fact that the Chinese goverment want to control the parts of the internet their citizens can access, and Google blasts a big hole in this control.

Basil wrote to Feeny yesterday – and got his question published!

300 photo’s taken by 30 people over the space of September. The photos up for today are really neat!

Blogger is down tonight – and I’ve got 4 items I want to post! At
least bloggar allows you to save the text ready to post online when
the server gets back (someone has forgotten to check the log files
which have filled the hard disk! sounds like someone needs to attend
one of my sysadmin courses! (Doing 2 this week!)

Feeny has a whole bunch of cat like smiley icons available for use on web pages!

Coming from a friend Cheryl is a nature scene….or is it? Can you see the baby?