…no, not today! Instead, 150 years ago today. For this is the 150th anniversary of the first ever forecast by the Met Office. It was published in the Times and is (right) Monday 1st of August 2011 is a very special day for the Met Office. We will be celebrating […]

When Miguel Hanson and his fiancee, Diana Wesley, got married on Saturday (two days ago), a computer program Hanson wrote served as the minister. During the wedding, held in the Houston home of Hanson’s parents, the couple stood before a 30-inch monitor in the backyard. In a robotic voice, the […]

So the Home Office has put up a new website showing crime spots across the UK and it promptly crashed. This shouldn’t be any surprise or a real issue. If 4 million people try to access just about any site in a day, especially one as database-intensive as that one […]

On Softpedia we read that: A hacker claims to have gained full access to the website of the British Royal Navy and the underlying database through an SQL injection attack. The public disclosure was made by a Romanian self-confessed security enthusiast who uses the online handle of “TinKode.” TinKode writes […]

Thousands of US sex offenders, prisoners on parole and other convicts were left unmonitored after an electronic tagging system shut down because of data overload. BI Incorporated, which runs the system, reached its data threshold – more than two billion records – on Tuesday. This left authorities across 49 states […]

No translation, but that’s part of the fun. Try to work out what is going on…

Three weeks since it hit the headlines, Google is finally uncensoring the search for suggestions to complete the phrase “Islam is” – a fact that launched a thousand screenshots and irate blogposts (including on here) around the world. According to Google “the bug fix is in the process of rolling out, and suggestions will […]

This article reproduced in its entirety from the Croatian Times. Normally, TheEye would fisk or comment on this but it stands alone. Read and be warned: Vukovar resident Damir Fintic will be the first Croat and possibly the first European who will end up in jail for comments on his […]

Rasmussen have released their latest poll findings on blogging and the internet, which interest us (delete as appropriate)  greatly not at all I’ve already got some Annoyingly, 11% of Americans believe that the government should regulate the content of blogs. In contrast, 100% of bloggers known as TheEye believe that […]

Following on from the rather worrying news that Google/Blogger had caved in and released the name of a blogger to the woman she had made unpleasant comments about, there are other signs of people using the legal precedent and following suit. The Houston Chronicle may not be on your daily […]