Blog Category: Geekiness

"Twitter privacy madness" or "I'm losing my mind"Wednesday 31st March 2010. 1 comment.

What a bizarre, bizarre day! Brushing over the huge problems presented to us by the unfortunate case of a simultaneous fire and flood (wtf?) which took chunks of the UK internet network out - subsequently making my employers ...

Big in JapanWednesday 17th March 2010. No comments.

I've been amazed at the popularity of my article on CSS rotation, with links coming in from delicious, webappers, reddit and above all, the Japanese heavyweight, gigazine.net.I really wasn't expecting so much traffic to a page so innocuous ...

Chinese domain registration scamWednesday 9th September 2009. 10 comments.

I received this scam email in my BKKPages.com inbox yesterday: (Please transfer this email to your President or appropriate person, thanks) Dear President, We are the department of Asian Domain registration service in china. have something to confirm ...

The continuous fight against blog spamSaturday 23rd May 2009. 6 comments.

Just as we arrived in Thailand last month, I found that this website was being flooded with blog spam. As you can see below, I have no CAPTCHAs or anything else to stop naughtiness so it was bound ...

Squashing bugs on the world stageFriday 27th March 2009. 1 comment.

A month or so ago I wrote a quick app to draw World Maps in the HTML <canvas> tag. Today I fixed a couple of issues with it which were kindly pointed out by two individuals. Firstly, Andreas ...

Now with comments and a feedTuesday 17th March 2009. No comments.

My project of learning Python and Django has taken a step forward in the last few days with blog comments and an RSS feed added to this site. This is hardly rocket science of course but one has ...

Starting out with a VPSSaturday 7th March 2009. 1 comment.

Moving web hosts is a royal pain in the bum. But, if I'm to learn once and for all how to do all this sysadmin stuff, clearly I have to take the plunge rather than rely on a ...

Jon Combe