From my iPhone

Yay! WordPress for iPhone is finally out! Image by Josh Bancroft via Flickr

A quick obligatory post using the new Wordpress iPhone app. Useful, and might mean more frequent personal posts. Missing Zemanta and the Flickr Photo Gallery plugin for quick links and Flickr integration. Can’t seem to easily link to those two useful tools for instance. I might use it to post about things in the “real world” as they happen.

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My “Batman: the Dark Knight” review in 700 characters or less

I loved the Dark Knight. It was fun, but it was also dark and difficult to watch. The film was experimental (for a comic book movie) that was a contrast to the big loud and also terrific Iron Man a couple of months ago.

The Joker's scruffy and grungy make-up reflect... Image via Wikipedia

And as for Heath Ledger’s Joker, I present my Twitter comments from soon after seeing the film:

Went to see 'Dark Knight' last night. I'm not sure I even want to leave the house any more.  Not while that mad fucker is still out there. Seriously, he’s one scary mofo. I don’t want to be Batman anymore.

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Someone hacked my Gmail!

Not really.

Google released a small update yesterday that adds information about recent activity on your Gmail account to the bottom of the Gmail interface.

Gmail account activity feature The new option in the Gmail interface

It also includes a link to further information, including details of IP addresses and methods that have recently been used to access your account. If anyone has accessed your mail in any way, it will be reported here.

Gmail Activity Information Argh! What is that?!

I checked mine the minute it showed up in my inbox, and was shocked to see a bunch of IP addresses listed, when I hadn’t been anywhere near my computer in the last five hours.

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Jungledisk - easy cheap reliable backup on any platform

http://jungledisk.com/ Jungle Disk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 - JungleDisk via kwout

I haven’t written for ages, because nothing has grabbed me enough to make me desperate to write. That was until tonight when I finished installing “Jungle Disk” on my Ubuntu laptop, and realized that I’d finally found a product that works exactly as promised, out-of-the-box on multiple platforms that provides a fantastic service.

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Starting the Google Treasure Hunt: How to do the first three questions

Google has been running a “treasurehunt” with unspecified prizes up for grabs for the fastest times to complete the tasks. What it amounts to is four questions spaced over a month, that you can log onto in your own time and attempt to nut out. The questions are randomly generated, but are of a different type each week. The first week was a number/maths problem, the second was a computer/file problem, the third a logic (and slightly computer network) problem. I haven’t seen the final fourth question yet.

I thought I’d jot down how I answered the questions - not my particular answers - as they will be different for other people, but the methods for answering the questions which are the same for each of the four question types.

Please note that I cannot finish the treasure hunt. I got stuck at question four. I wrote up how I did questions one to three before I’d done four and it just seemed like a waste not to post them.

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