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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Radio Daze
This is a momentous week for Irish radio, for two reasons. One, Phantom FM, everyone’s favourite career pirates turned Indy music saviors, have finally won their protracted legal case against Bob Geldolf’s proposed ZedFM, and hit the Dublin airwaves Monday. I’ve been listening sporadically throughout today and have been pleasantly surprised. Nay saying prognosticators be Read more
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Four Essential Tweaks for Firefox 2
I – Disable Tab Scrolling Firefox 2 sets a fixed minimum width for tabs, so rather than constantly shrinking when your tab bar is filled, tabs spill off the screen into a dropdown; a behavior reminiscent of XP’s default ‘Group similar taskbar buttons’ setting. If like me you find this thoroughly unusable, it can be Read more
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More on Bebo Spam
Just a short note for Bebo users hitting this site from Google searches. My previous post, regardin the nefarious ‘homepagecam.us/cutie223’ seems to have hit a nerve. The spam you received was an advertisement for a (now removed) porn site. This was, to the best of my knowledge, the first commercial Bebo spam – if you Read more
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Social Network Spam
Received my first social network spam, a mail through Bebo’s internal messaging system.. ‘hey gareth i just noticed ur profile.. i might be visitin friends where ur from… i have more pics on my cam site.. its ‘homepagecam.us/cutie223′ …im ussually online. msg me sometime on there…’ Social networks are in one sense eminently spamable (hell Read more
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East Coast, West Coast
A mini-documentary about my first trip to America in 2006. Download: East Coast / West Coast While I was at the anti DRM demonstration at Apples 5th avenue store, I also interviewed a member of New Yorker’s for Fair Use, Jay Sulzberger. The interview was too long to include in the program, but if you’re interested Read more
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Leaving Gotham
The rain fell my last morning in Manhattan, as if it personally disliked me. It dropped in fat wet polyps that hit and burst as I dragged a sodden case across 55th st. Mere hours before, less hours than it takes to realise last nights felafels have no intention of leaving your stomach either quietly Read more
Gareth Stack 