Here’s a handy tip.

Imagine the scenario.. you’re online and a site wants your email address to email you something. You don’t want to really give your address because it’s possible the data will be sold or passed on. Wat do?

Append a plus (“+”) sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address.

For example, if your email address is bob.smith@test.com, and you book tickets on say, a travel website, enter your email address as bob.smith+shitty_travel@test.com. You will receive your email/tickets etc. as usual, but now you can filter it and also, more importantly, see where spamming mail has come from if you suddenly get unrelated mail with the same target address. Noice.

This is why I love git. A little tricky to get the exact hang of it, but once you have it, there’s no going back!

Check out this tweet form Mr. Edward Snowden.  Interesting indeed.  PGP still looks intact in its raw form.  This is good news.  Assuming the end point device has not been compromised of course and the password and private key snarfed.

That said, that is something really only a state player or well financed operative will have a shot at.  For the regular folk using PGP means always having your thoughts and ideas protected.

If somebody gets access to your mail server, as per Hillary Clinton, at least the attacker will have squigabytes worth of nothing and nobody finds out about your involvement with Saudi, mis-handling classified documents, Libya and the Clinton Foundation.

Your email was intercepted.  Two words.  “Shit” and “Jack”.

It’s always a good time to remind yourself of the advantages of having a backup of your files.  Have a read of the Tao of Backup, before it’s too late!

I was looking for some info on the right way to use a regex to parse a small piece of html which had me stumped.

I found this gem on stack overflow with 4426 positive replies.  This guy gets it.

I’ve been working with PIC micro-controllers lately and found this great document from Microchip with a collection of tips and tricks that people have used with micro-controllers. That’s the first time I’ve seen a multinational publish a ‘notes-from-the-field’ document about their technologies and how to do clever stuff with them. Check the format out too; each tip is half a paragraph and gets everything summarised in a nutshell. Great document.