Aled Treharne on January 31st, 2008

There’s an interesting article on the Asterisk VoIP News site. It appears as though the German government has been discussing the use of a “Skype Capture Unit” made by DigiTask. A trojan horse-style piece of software, it sits on your PC and sends copies of your Skype conversations to a remote server. In principle, I […]

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Aled Treharne on January 24th, 2008

Arse, that is not all in fact. Today I stumbled across a new geektoy. While quickly documenting my workspace for Pixel Rigs (a flickr pool started by Rands), I started reading the others and came across Synergy. Now you can have one keyboard, mouse and pastebuffer across multiple machines (each with its own monitor). It’s […]

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Aled Treharne on January 24th, 2008

Sean showed me this the other day. It’s not from him before you ask, it’s between two acquaintances. But the raw passion in it took my breath away: If I lost you, there’d be no reason to breathe any more. No reason to eat, drink, get up, live. Because every second of every day that […]

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Aled Treharne on January 19th, 2008

What a bizarre night. With my leg almost back to 100%, I headed out tonight for a shift with Rich on the RRV in Caerphilly again. The shift started well even though Rich prophesied a quiet shift based on others this week. Tonight’s weather is horrendous – classic Welsh weather – horizontal and torrential drizzle. […]

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Aled Treharne on January 15th, 2008

I’ve been quiet since Christmas – it’s been a nice relaxing time. Sean and I spent New Year down at his mother’s while he finished off his panto run before heading back to Wales via Battersea and his dad. It’s been good to have him around again, the house feels a lot more cosy when […]

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