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Firebug and online banking
Over the last few days I’ve had a problem accessing my online banking (in this case Alliance and Leicester) from Firefox. Internet Explorer was fine. After running Firefox in safe mode (run firefox -safe-mode) I realised the issue was with one of my add-ons. With a hunch I launched Firefox normally and disabled Firebug. Sure…
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I Spit My Last Breath at Thee
Ricardo Montalbán, better known to me as Khan Noonien Singh, has died. Very sad. He was possibly one of the best Star Trek “baddies” and made Wrath of Khan what it was – the best Trek film they made. And no, that wasn’t a false chest – that was really him.
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MD5 Hash
Another day, another online tool. This time a quick and simple one – an MD5 hash generator. It doesn’t generate them from a file, but rather from a text string. Simply type in your text and it will return the MD5 hashed equivalent. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you probably don’t need…
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Tired, angry and emotional
And I have no idea why I feel like this. Last night I got home to find one the headlight bulbs in my car had blown. To make sure I got the right one, I thought I’d take the blown one out. Then I thought that maybe I should test it was the bulb (as…
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The WPL is fair. Really?
Nottingham City Councils insistence on bringing in a Workplace Parking Levy shows no signs of abating. Even the recent decision by Manchester to not bring in a congestion charge after huge opposition has done nothing to dent their intentions. On the councils website they’ve said.. Nottingham City Council believes it will not suffer a similar…