Al’s Blog

Security update for Firefox to prevent phishing attacks.

The Google toolbar v3 (beta) includes a new feature called AutoLink. This essentially means that if it recognises an address, ISBN number, VIN number it can create a link in the HTML you see linking to a map, amazon, or VIN tracking site respectively.
A lot of bloggers are getting upset at this because it changes [...]

nHibernate is a .NET port of the Java Hibernate system. The Hibernate system has been around for years in the open-source community. For this blog the terms are interchangeable.
Hibernate is a system that lets you persist your business entity objects into a persistent storage medium (database normally). So you write your business entity object, give [...]

A couple of the travel sites I use…
http://www.skyscanner.net/ - good for seeing flight prices across different providers without irritating advertisers getting in the way. They also have a view showing prices for a destination across a month so you can go when it’s cheapest. (Europe only)
http://www.seat61.com/ - train travel across the UK and Europe. How [...]

http://www.marok.org/Arte/Mix/0283.htm

In July 2002 DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) in the USA announced a competition to push the development of autonomous vehicles. The aim was to build a vehicle capable of travelling 150 miles without human intervention across the Mojave desert in Arizona.
This happened in March 2004 and there’s a hilarious summary of what happened [...]

From 27thFebruary…
“Capping means that passengers using a pre-pay Oystercard will pay the lowest daily fare after every journey has been assessed. This cap will apply at the appropriate one-day Travelcard or Bus Pass rate.”
http://www.ltuc.org.uk/news.php?id=250

Those guys at Google are really great. They’ve now added a map and route finding beta service to their plethora of offerings. Shame it’s only America at the moment, but once they’ve gone through beta they’re bound to add European maps.
How about this on a 3G GPS-enabled phone with Opera mobile browser, could this be [...]

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Not the Carol Smiley kind, this is for websites.
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html