* Posts by mattb

3 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Dec 2011

Who's who: 12th Doctor has been chosen, will meet you on Sunday night

mattb
Alien

The show will be broadcast simultaneously on BBC America on Sunday at 1400 EDT / 1100 EDT / 0800 HST.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/The-Next-Doctor-will-be-revealed-on-Sunday-04-August

LivingSocial admits major hacking attack on customer database

mattb

Changing other passwords

"Although the email doesn’t mention it, if your LivingSocial password was used for any other online accounts, then you'd be advised to change those, too."

The version of the email that I received from LivingSocial actually contained the following advice:

"We also encourage you, for your own personal data security, to consider changing password(s) on any other sites on which you use the same or similar password(s)."

MIT student unicycles, Segway-style

mattb
Facepalm

Ian Healy

One of the cricket commentators (Ian Healy) decided to have a go on the Segway around the pitch the following day (while the cameraman was being interviewed about his crash), and ... well you can guess what happened next...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/dec/28/ian-healy-scooter-melbourne