Author: calum

A Nova Corsa

Spent the weekend car browsing (and eventually, buying) with Julie. The Astra she brought over with her from the UK has been registered here for a year now, which means it’s now floggable without incurring the wrath of the Revenue Commissioners… so, next week she’ll be taking delivery of a black ’03 Vaux^H^H^H^HOpel Corsa Njoy with a trifling 8000 miles on the clock.

Just Another Day at Sun…

Apparently, a plane was spotted circling a couple of Sun campuses yesterday trailing a “Just Another Day at Red Hat” banner. As one Sun wag put it, the conclusion to be drawn is presumably that a typical day at Red Hat involves going round in circles with your head in the clouds worrying about the launch of Solaris 10 :)

(Or, as another put it, “So Red Hat has moved from the ‘ignoring Sun’ to ‘laughing at Sun’
stage. On to stage three…”)

The Grudge

We went to see The Grudge at the weekend, an English language re-working of the Japanese Ju-On fright flick (and its sequels). Reviews had been mixed here (as they had in the States), but the majority pointed to the ‘worth seeing and really quite scary’ end of the scale.

It would probably have worked better had the cinema not been half-full of underage kids who couldn’t decide whether to giggle all the way through or just scream occasionally at the wrong bits, and therefore decided just to do both… but while it was nicely made, it had a few loose ends, and I never find that films where the all the scary parts are precluded by scary music ever really end up being all that scary. Julie thought otherwise, however :)

Gitaroo Man

Finally caved in and bought Gitaroo Man when I saw somebody selling it cheap on Amazon the other day, as it’s not too easy to find any more– it arrived this morning. When trying to find the sort of game we might enjoy when the PS2 first arrived chez nous (Julie didn’t strike me as your Metal Gear Solid or Pro Evo sort of girl), it was a toss up between this and Mad Maestro, in the rhythm genre… we went for MM, and on first impressions of Gitaroo, it’s probably just as well– Gitaroo is a lot more difficult, or at least it gets difficult a lot more quickly. Looks like good fun, though…

Tabbed browsing security

An interesting article over at The Register highlighting how tabbed browsers can increase the risk of phishing. There are a couple of concrete recommendations that I guess Epiphany should take on board (if they haven’t already– Firefox and Konqueror are already on the case):

  • Keep the user informed as to which tab is responsible for any popup dialog boxes.
  • Don’t allow inactive tabs to spawn dialog boxes in the first place.

Of course, if everyone followed the HIG and didn’t use tabbed MDI interfaces, we wouldn’t have the problem, right? :o) (Kidding!)