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I got back from Japan on Tuesday, after a 12+ hour flight on Virgin Atlantic. Previously I have flown with KLM and JAL to/from Japan. I couldn’t really recommend KLM, because while the service was okay you can’t go direct from the UK with them, making your trip take 16 hours or more. JAL are [...]

One more interesting post on how evil Phorm really is. Looks like there is no escape, and best of all if the Phorm servers go down it breaks your internet connection. This might actually be Phorm’s undoing – if browsing speeds plummet as everything has to go through their hardware, customers who don’t even know [...]

Today’s Coding Horror blog entry is rather disturbing, but not particularly surprising. In short, Dustin Brooks downloaded the free G-Archiver program to backup his gmail account. It didn’t work exactly as he wanted, so he used a .NET disassembler to check the source code. Amazingly, not only were the author’s login details hard coded in, [...]

Finally got around to making a web site for my latest project: a USB joystick adapter. Currently it features 13 buttons and zero lag. I am working on a version that supports Atari/Commodore joysticks, Sega Saturn joypads, MegaDrive pads, Master System system controllers, Famicom (NES) and Super Famicom (SNES) gamepads.