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Apple MapKit JS JWT Woes
I’m just making a quick note of these two things here, as I wasted time over them this afternoon and I can come back to remind myself next time: When specifying the “origin” value in a JSON Web Token (JWT), omit the trailing slash: use http://localhost:8000 not http://localhost:8000/ or you’ll get the warning “[MapKit] Authorization token origin restriction (‘http://localhost:8000/’) […]
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Fox Escort Duties
Around 1995, I was walking home late at night. I mean late: it would have been about four in the morning. The road I was walking up was lined on the side I was on by decaying post-industrial wasteland. As I passed a gap in a fence, a fox nipped out and started walking alongside […]
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Weird iPad Bug: Audio from Certain Apps Only Played Via Headphones
If some of your iPad apps will only play audio through headphones, it could be due to a strange but easily-fixed settings problem.
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Steve Jobs’ Other Computer
After he was so rudely ejected from Apple in 1985, Steve Jobs created a new company called NeXT. They made a microcomputer that was way ahead of anything else. Unfortunately, so was its price tag: over $6000. The NeXT cube was a machine for geeks to salivate over. It had a Digital Signal Processing chip […]
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In which I play with fire, aka Mac Protector
There is much brouhaha and kerfuffle at the moment about the fact that malware for the Mac has finally arrived in strength. I’m not sure why anybody is surprised; we knew this day would come and, more importantly, we knew it probably wouldn’t be as bad as things were for Windows users in the days […]
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What the Web is For: “Why I Am Not Worried About Japan’s Nuclear Reactors”
This is the best explanation I’ve seen so far of the circumstances surrounding the problems Japan has been experiencing at its nuclear power plants: Why I Am Not Worried About Japan’s Nuclear Reactors. Not linking to it would be a crime in a world ruled by PageRank. If you see this and you are able […]
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New From Microsoft Bing: Conditional Charity
Microsoft Bing’s twitter account today posted the following bizarre message: How you can #SupportJapan – http://binged.it/fEh7iT. For every retweet, @bing will give $1 to Japan quake victims, up to $100K. So, basically, they’re saying that they can afford to give away $100,000 to help the people of Japan in the face of the appalling tragedy […]
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Well, That Didn’t Hurt As Much As I Expected
The National Health Service is for life, not just for politics.
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Twitter 1 Daily Mail 0
The Daily Mail really should have checked the dateline before rewriting a story from BBC News and publishing it under the byline “Daily Mail Reporter.” Twitter to the rescue!