I just noticed that the Yahoo! GeoPlanet API made an API change to its JSON API that breaks existing apps. (I noticed because it broke the sign-up process for the new Singularity teaser site.) Googling around, I couldn't find any announcements from Yahoo! about this. I don't know if there's a notification feed somewhere that I'm [...]

Writing the post on del.icio.us's password policy got me thinking about passwords and online security again. Having a strong password policy such as "passwords must be longer than six characters and must contain a number or a symbol and a mix of uppercase and lowercase characters" is great in theory but let's take a moment to [...]

First way: Call their premium 0870 support number and pay £??? to be told that they will send you an email with instructions on the procedure which involves sending them a fax then proceed to wait several days for said email without success. Second way: Sign in to your PayPal account, go to the Contact Us - My [...]

After running through a lot of merges last night (I was incrementally going through several changesets to see where I'd introduced an interesting regression) and updating to the HEAD revision and fixing the bug, I got the following error message while trying to commit: svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Your file or directory 'paypal.py' is probably [...]

electricrain, makers of Swift3D, the popular 3D software for Flash, have just started advertising on the Pistach.io Flash Pack. Swift3D Version 5 runs on both Mac and Windows and has native support for Papervision3D so you can export your 3D models as Papervision3D objects and start manipulating them in realtime in Flash. Register your [...]