Haje’s Brain

So, the online bookmarking / social network site Reddit was down for a couple of days, and admits to having a lot of their data stolen. They further admit that the data will have included logins, passwords, and e-mail addresses.

The part that was stolen, according to the news story, was “media of ours that contained a backup of a portion of the reddit database was stolen recently”… Not being funny, but what the hell is a media company doing having unencrypted ‘backup media’ (CD or DVD, presumably) laying around? That’s hardly what’s known as being diligent in protecting your users. (more…)

So, as part of research for my job – and because I love this kind of stuff – I’ve been playing around with different types of social networking sites.

One of my friends, Ashley, pointed out FaceBook to me today. All I can say is – jesus christ, why isn’t MySpace more like FaceBook? In fact – why do people bother with myspace at all, when Facebook is better in just about every possible aspect? (more…)

There’s something to be said against seasonal affective disorder. Myself, I’ve never been struck particularly hard, but I do notice that getting up in the mornings becomes a bit more… pointless?

Nothing that a good sound-track can’t fix though… And here is my 2006 edition. (more…)