Big news: I finally have a comments system. It should work, but if you spot any errors or get erroneous warnings, please let me know (via email or comment).

Rules? Stay vaguely on topic, no spam, no flaming, be nice to each other etc. The usual sort of thing. Oh yeah, and you take responsibility for anything you say: IP’s are being logged if banning is absolutely necessary, but I doubt it will.

I don’t expect the comments to get very busy, but knock yourself out. It’s something I wouldn’t mind being surprised about.

Given the recent hassle over creative commons licensing, I’ve decided to pull the creative commons license from this site. It’s just to open to abuse, and misinterpretation.

From this day onwards, Solitude no longer uses a creative commons license. However, I can’t revoke the license for previous entries. So, entries between me adding the license and entries prior to today (that does not include earlier entries today) are still under the by attribution, non commercial, share alike license.

When I find a fairer and safer license, I’ll use it.

With enough twists to make anyone doubt every characters motives, Cypher is surprisingly well-written for how subdued it is. It’s the story of Morgan (Jeremy Northam), a man who wants to escape the drudgery of his life by going into espionage. Inevitably, he gets into a lot more than he wanted.

Surprisingly, the film also shows that Lucy Liu, the lead female character, can actually act. Shocking, when put side by side with her work in Charlie’s Angels.

It is not the best film in the world, the twists do start to push it after a while, but it’s certainly a great deal better than some of the garbage that is being showing recently.

Someone has done a hacky max-width feature for IE. I’m not sure what I think of it. It works well, and can easily be set up to also work in browsers which already support the feature. It can also be used as a basis to fix other similar problems with IE.

The problem is that it uses IE proprietary expressions, and thus uses invalid CSS. That’s bad. While I don’t know of any browsers that would choke on it, there are always some who will. Is it worth invalidating your CSS for IE again (ala the box model hack)? Maybe. The features this hack enables are very useful and, as such, should be enabled where possible.

Hmm. Possibly worth it, as long as it doesn’t break any other browsers.

The art of Google hacking is an excellent demonstration of the power of Google, and the idiocy of not controlling access to sensitive directories.

I’ve done a few slighty dodgy things like this before (not that it’s particularly wrong). Hint: don’t call your password files “passwd.txt” and leave the passes unhashed.