Part of me chuckled at the so called hack that affected Twitter today, not that something like this couldn’t affect any site (although given the simple and well known nature of the attack, it really shouldn’t have hit a site like Twitter) but it did remind me of the days in the early 00’s when this sort of thing was common place and the sort of problems we all had to face when coding sites in that era. What did strike me was whilst I did notice it (whilst random JavaScript tweets are always fun doing the same one over and over again is sort of labouring any joke) I wasn’t affected by it. Why...

The other day I built a computer almost from scratch. I can admit it, I can nerd it with the best of them when pressed, ok I don’t even need to be pressed. I had a bunch of components lying around, a not too old processor, a bunch of fast RAM and a laptop hard drive all I needed was a case. That was easy to rectify as I’ve always fancied building a little PC and Shuttle do some excellent barebones machines. Now the premise of this post is not the coolness of my new computer (although it is quite nice) but the ease at which it took to build. When I was Young. When I was young and the ‘internet...