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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Bebo respond uselessly
The Bebo abuse department have once again failed to respond usefully to clear abuse of their service, and violation of their Terms of Use. Gareth You recently reported abuse for member Leyla H on October 29, 2006. The best thing for you to do is block this person from your profile. If you ignore this… Read more
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TrinityFM Promo
Published in this weeks Trinity News.. Trinity FM, as all must by now be aware, is the one of the most popular, longest running and most professionally managed student radio stations in all of Trinity. Perched, like a mellifluous golden eagle of radio, mere feet below the attics of House 6, in a space once… Read more
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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
