Richard Giles Blog

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What’s the difference between a Gmail security bug, and an Outlook security bug. Enough time to create an exploit for the 80% of people that don’t patch quickly. The reason, Gmail, being centralised, fixed the exploit over night. If you use Gmail, your accounts been fixed. Did you notice? Probably not, because it was done behind the scenes.

The funny thing is, someone took a photo.

More at Instant Blitz Copy Fight Project.

Scoble. What? Can you explain what you mean?

Gates mentioned that there “are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don’t think that those incentives should exist”. At no point did he mention PC’s or Linux, he was talking intellectual property, copyright and patents. The article you point to discusses IBM’s deal with Lenovo, and how it was a smart move to gain PC, server and services penetration into a massive growing market.

Slow down Scoble. I think you’re suffering information overload.

Anthony Hicks today announced that “Aussie Blogs update tracker and web ring are now closed permanently”.

Thanks for the work up until now Anthony, and good luck in your new pursuits.

It started as a hobby, a little way for me to test how blogging might work in Australia. See what I could generate. Once started it turned into an obsession, then a requirement, every day I don’t post something to Gadget Lounge I feel guilty. Well, in some ways I’m being paid back by the site being nominated as Best Australian Tech Blog in the 2005 Australian Blog Awards.

Thanks for the nominations everyone!

Now anyone gracious enough can vote for the site at 2005 Australian Blog Awards - Vote.

Kitta has, what I consider, the best set of predictions for the year.

You’ll have to check her blog for the rest of her predicitions.

For those of you that read my blog on a regular basis (hi Mum), you might have noticed my deep addiction to Flickr. I first saw Flickr when the meme started earlier in 2004. Back then the flash application and chat tool looked interesting but not compelling.

What I didn’t realise until recently was just how much of a great web service this is. Traditionally, with photos, you’d stick them in an album, and once in a while pull it off a dusty shelf and inflict them on friends or relatives after a few glasses of you favourite beverage. When digital photos came along, the process became even more arduous, because you’d store them on CD or DVD and lose them at the bottom of some draw. What Flickr allows you to do is share them not only with friends and family, but with thousands of others that just might enjoy the subject of your photo as well. Putting all those bits into use, where normally they’d just corrode over a millennium.

Whack in a batch of tags on your photo collection, and you can then start surfing other people’s collections that relate directly, or indirectly, to yours. As an example, I’ve an affection for Disney World, because this is where my wife and I started our honeymoon. Now I get to share the experience with a bunch of other Disney Geeks, and I can live vicariously through others that are visiting as we speak.

In just over a week I’ve uploaded about 500MB of photos that I’ve taken over the last few years, and also reawakened my desire to get out and take more photos. All in all a good little activity when I’ve found the time over the holiday break.