I just got a 3G iPhone and signed in to the O2 website to take a peek at my account, only to be greeted by the menu you see here. My, my, my..! It's completely unscannable, with each line starting with the same prefix ("My"). As I try to scan it, my brain initially refuses [...]

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 [...]

Hmm, I need to log in again to del.icio.us after clearing out my passwords. I wonder why my regular passwords don't work... oh well, time to start the forgotten password process. Cool, got the email and now I'm on the site -- this should be simple: I enter a weak password -- this isn't too important an [...]

I've been a paid-up subscriber of the much-hyped Mozy remote backup system for about a year now. The only problem is that I haven't really used it in that time and I emailed them a few days ago to ask them to cancel my account (and I haven't heard back yet). The reason: I haven't [...]

It seems like everyone is getting form validation wrong. Seesmic is a social vlogging app that's built in Flex and is currently in alpha testing. I got invited a few moments ago and went to sign up. On the site, I clicked in the First Name field and started to type. And stopped just as [...]