K’s Weblog

I’ve taken a crack at producing some small bits of audio content in the past, my segments for the GGP, and more recently some promo material for the Aussie Geek Podcast.  But never have I undertaken producing an entire episode without the proverbial net.
This week due to some issues beyond his control, Dave is without [...]

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So here I am without access to the Internet.  So what have I done?  I’ve found a way to do my computing without the cloud!  Here are some projects that you can do the next time you find yourself without access to the cloud.
Organize your Photos
This is a relatively time consuming task that I rarely [...]

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A few months back I was beeing bombarded by what seemed an ever-increasing number of twitter spammers.  This means they’re following me.  To end the insanity I finally decided to make my profile private which eliminated almost all of the spam but seriously crippled the number of friend requests I was getting.
I carried this on [...]

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For those of you who haven’t been following recent security news, there’s been a major defect found in the DNS protocol which has led to a series of patches for all forms of DNS servers.  Though the issue doesn’t affect most peoples’ home computers, it does affect pretty much every ISP on the planet as [...]

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Well it’s not quite as staggering as the Digg Effect that can take down web servers in a single afternoon, but I experienced my own little spike in traffic this week.  When Gmail went through their little bout of difficulty last week I let you know about the post-mortem entry on the Official Gmail blog.
I [...]

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