Category Archives: Geekdom

Ambiguous Facebook Fail

A light hearted one for Australia Day, I just saw this on Facebook. Circled in red we see “Application Requests”: So I clicked it, and the box popped up to say they had moved. Nope, it’s in two places. Facebook is cluttered enough without putting things all over the place. I’m sure people would find [...]

SPF Fail – One for the SysAdmin Nerds

In one for the nerdy mail system administrators out there, I spotted a rather uncommon SPF result in my SMTP logs this morning. If you know your SPF, you’ll know that no matter what IP address a piece of email comes from, with these records, the email will ALWAYS pass an SPF lookup. Clearly an [...]

Outside Broadcasting 20 Years Ago

Given the value of auctioning off unused broadcast spectrum for mobile communications platforms, administrative bodies in most nations of the world are moving towards digital television and radio services. The more efficient allocation of the RF spectrum that digital broadcasting affords, allows huge swathes of particularly the VHF and UHF bands to be freed up [...]

Google Pac-Man!

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original release of Pac-Man, Google has added one of its famous anniversary banners. The kicker is, the banner is actually a playable version of the game! Way cool.

Funny Spam of the Day

I run my own mail server, behind my own router and firewall in my own home. My filters work perfectly, and I get no spam. Some of the stuff my filters catch is hilarious. For example: Dear user of the michaelwyres.com mailing service!We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing [...]

Melbourne Under Attack from Japan!

Well…perhaps not REALLY. But this rain radar image from today shows a heavy band of rain, shaped very much like the country of Japan! Similar?

Error Error?

I noticed the following Microsoft patch applied itself to my laptop this morning. Interestingly, without the patch “Control Panel will incorrectly display an error message”. Incorrectly display? As in, in error? So that makes it an erroneous error. It reminds of the message I saw on a Sun Xterm many moons ago – “Error – [...]

Do Not Use Twitter!

Interesting commentary on just how pervasive Twitter is becoming in modern culture – particularly in the culture of the tech savvy.