Category: Life
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Cyworld US launches! (now with added bugs!)
The US launch of the supercute Korean social network Cyworld was marred for me (and many others) by a PHP error which prevented me from completing my profile. Sheesh! You’d think that the experience of running the largest social network in Korea as well as having branches in Taiwan, Japan and China would have prevented…
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Bluetooth neologisms and portmanteaus
I was just writing something up for African Communications on Bluetooth, so I did a survey of some of the mashups out there – here is what I found: Bluejacking – sending unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to any phones in the area. Derived from Bluetooth + hijack, although the only hijacking that occurs is that…
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Free remote backup: passwordless SSH + Rsync
If you’ve always wanted to backup your files to a remote server, but never really knew how – here’s a quick and easy way to do it: 1. Create a passwordless SSH setup Login into your account on your [Linux, Unix, BSD, OS X] system. Type in ssh-keygen -t dsa Hit Enter three times. This…
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Gooooooooaaaaaal!!!
World Cup ’06 – FINAL: Ghana 2 – USA 1 Go Ghana! You rock! Africa is in the final 16!
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I call bullshit on the OED
So there I was, casually glancing through a list of some hip’n’tasty neologisms breaking into the charts on Ask Oxford when I came across something absolutely and utterly ridiculous. Tell me if you spot anything wrong with this sentence: Bluesnarfing: the illicit accessing of data from an electronic device such as a mobile phone, PDA,…