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Zoe Margolis aka sex blogger Abby Lee ran a presentation / discussion on "Social Media - How Not To Get Fucked", at Social Media Camp London 2008 (see the Wikipedia entry on Zoe and her blog Girl with A One-Track Mind ; her blog and "outing" led to many changes in her life). I was delighted by the way that Zoe came to my presentation on How to be Pseudonymous , and remarked that she wished she'd known...
This summarises (with links) my presentation on practical tips for staying pseudonymous, which I gave at BarCampLondon5 and Social Media Camp London 08 . I was surprised but pleased that Zoe Margolis ( Abby Lee / Girl with a One Track Mind ) came to my #smclondon08 session, agreed with my key points and said she wished she'd known some of these points before! (See my separate post on her session "Social...
A tip: it seems that the registry hacks to make Internet Explorer 7 go faster on Windows XP (including making new tabs open faster) also work on IE 8 beta 2 . They did when I tried them anyway, being a speed, optimisation and productivity freak! So if you want to speed up IE8, you could try the IE 7 registry hacks on IE8 - I've produced some .reg files which you can use as a shortcut instead of having...
Do you sometimes wonder if something is legal or not, or what to do in relation to an incident? I just found a very useful searchable Police National Legal Database ( by area ), for the UK only, when I was trying to find out info for a friend whose wing mirror got clipped by some b*^%&*# who tailgated my friend first, overtook in a single lane, but didn't stop, not even to see if his own car had been...
If you sing in a choir, Cyberbass is a useful growing online "note bashing" resource for choral singers to study and learn their own part more easily. It provides free MIDI files (playable automatically on most modern computers, but their FAQ includes troubleshooting tips for Windows) which will play out each individual section's part or line against a metronome click, in some cases with the accompaniment...
This is a review and user guide to the Oxford PaperShow Bluetooth digital pen with Bluetooth USB key for PC users, which launches in mid-October 2008 in the UK, January 2009 in the USA (and for Mac users from end 2009). It's a potentially useful bit of kit, effectively providing a digital whiteboard substitute and slides annotation , which may be of interest to you if: you give presentations, lectures...
In a separate post I had a moan about security questions asked by banks and the like being too easy for bad guys to answer, and identification requirements not making much sense. But, many of us have also experienced the opposite syndrome. Unnecessary security questions Most of us have had to deal with organisations whose security policies (or their implementation) result in unnecessary security measures,...
You have to answer a raft of security questions when trying to manage your account at your bank, credit card company or other financial institution. But, are they the right questions? And are they asked appropriately? What about other "security measures" used or insisted upon by institutions - are they commensurate with the risks they're supposed to address, do they even make sense in some cases? Insecure...
Registering your stuff free, for easier recovery You can register make, model, serial number and photos of some of your portable possessions online (laptops / notebook computers / UMPCs , PDAs , mobile phones etc) in order to help get them back if they're recovered after being stolen or lost. I'd previously covered MendUK (now called Immobilise or the Immobilise National Property Register ); it's recently...
I just received a new bank credit card in the post - in an envelope which had "Disguised mail" stamped on it (the serial / ID number in the photo of the envelope is obscured to prevent possible identification of recipient!) Talk about silly "security measures". I thought the whole point of "disguised mail" was to conceal the fact that there was something valuable in the envelope, by making it look...
I notice the Imperial College Internet Centre (ICIC) are hosting a free session Serious Applications of Virtual Worlds - ICIC Tuesday Talk on Tuesday 30 September 2008 from 4-6 pm. From the blurb: "Dave Taylor, Programme Lead for the Medical Media and Design Laboratory (MMDL), will deliver a talk entitled "Serious Applications of Virtual Worlds" including a live tour of the SciLands (Science and Technology...
While I'm probably the only person who managed to resist the urge to go Aarrr on Twitter yesterday, 19 September, I see that Google at least have marked the occasion of International Talk Like A Pirate Day by making their search interface available in yet another language - yes, you guessed it, Pirate ! Pirate thus joins the illustrious ranks of Bork, bork, bork!, Elmer Fudd, Hacker, Klingon and Pig...
A little while ago at the London Bloggers Meetup, we had the pleasure of Improbulous from A Consuming Experience talk to us about search engine optimisation and getting traffic to your blog. At the time some of the ideas seemed straight forward and well known, but others quite interesting. I certainly picked up a few [...]
If you're a fan of writer Neil Gaiman (as I am, I rarely buy books but I have nearly all of his), you can get a free ticket to a discussion Piracy vs Obscurity - An audience with Neil Gaiman on Friday 24 Octoher 2008, 7-9 pm in London, just by joining the Open Rights Group between now and the event. It may particularly be of interest to writers and authors. But you need to be quick - as I write there's...
I recently watched the documentary The Voice about the science of the human voice, how it works and why it's so hard to replicate it - whether it's an artificial voice through machine synthesis of speech / singing, or in mimicking other people's voices (the programme also featured famed impressionist Rory Bremner , whose imitation of Tony Blair actually improved after a comparative analysis of their...
