Monthly Archives: March 2012

Mozilla Collusion

Posted on 2012-03-04 by Jethro Carr

This week Mozilla released an add-on called Collusion, an experimental extension which shows and graphs how you are being tracked online. It’s pretty common knowledge how much you get tracked online these days, if you just watch your status bar … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Sync Server RPMs

Posted on 2012-03-04 by Jethro Carr

A few weeks ago I wrote about the awesomeness that is Mozilla’s Firefox Sync, a built-in feature of Firefox versions 4 & later which allows for synchronization of bookmarks, history, tabs and password information between multiple systems. (historically known as … Continue reading →

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Corporate Unreasonability

Posted on 2012-03-02 by Jethro Carr

I came across an interesting article today about a 16yr old Australian who developed a Chopper Read soundboard application for the iOS (iPhone & iPad) platform. The application concept is pretty simple – provide a screen that allows you to … Continue reading →

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IBM x3500 M3 Server

Posted on 2012-03-01 by Jethro Carr

I recently got to play with a nice shiny new IBM x3500 M3 server ordered for a customer to replace a previous IBM x3400 M2 that had become a bit too acquainted with a sprinkler system…. These machines offer a … Continue reading →

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Rangitoto Island Adventures

Posted on 2012-03-01 by Jethro Carr

Due to excessive homesickness for Wellington’s hills lately, I decided that it would be nice to visit the next best thing and go climb the local volcano –  Rangitoto Island. Rangitoto makes up part of the Auckland Volcanic Field, erupting … Continue reading →

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