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31st July Facebook incident epilogue

So, the dust has settled now on the Facebook "incident" that I wrote about on the 31st July. As the day progressed I was reading more and more reports of people seeing other people's details, as well as the problems I saw too. Facebook later made a statement saying that ...

Did Facebook get hacked today?

<Update>: Ok so it would seem that Facebook were fixing a technical issue regarding proxies, and nothing to do with security, according to the Scobleizer blog (which has some sort of access to Facebook's PR team). Facebook is now alive again, and sporting some new hash values in the URLs ...

May 2nd 2008
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Safari annoys - again!

At work at the moment I'm testing the appearance of the site we are working on with Safari on Windows, with the current version we're using being 3.1.1.  We're also working pretty closely with XML and their schemas as part of the web development process. Happily working through my day as ...
April 11th 2008
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How I’d change Firefox 3

I've been running the betas for Firefox 3 for a little while now and - despite some problems with loosing my bookmarks - its been pretty good.  But there are some annoyances that have made themselves apparent with the current latest betas that I'd really want to change. Bring back the ...
March 22nd 2008
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Firefox 3 & setting CSS pixel values quirk

I was just doing some updates to one of my sites to fix some dynamic javascript problems that I'd discovered with the past couple of Firefox 3 betas.   A page I'd designed back in 2006 had a moving DIV that changed position as a result of a post back from ...
March 6th 2008
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Horror of Horrors … I lost my bookmarks!

... and my saved passwords and all my cookies and all my extensions!  You have to expect this kind of thing when you're trying out the beta versions of Firefox I suppose :)  Some of those bookmarks were ones I had all the way back from whilst I was at ...
February 24th 2008
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Picture Perfect - free & copyleft photos

Photos are a great way to get inspiration for making a site’s design, or indeed including the images in your design itself of course! Here are 5 of my favourite sites that have royalty free Creative Commons, Public Domain, copyleft etc licensed images for you to use: YotoPhoto.com YotoPhoto is probably ...

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