There’s a London Geek Dinner being planned for June 7th 2005. The organisers are none other than Hugh McLeod (does great cartoons on the back of business cards) and Robert Scoble (probably Microsoft’s most vocal blogger!).
The event is limited to 175 people, and there are already around 170, so if you want to go, be quick and register here!
TheRegister reports another firefox vulnerability:
Security researchers have discovered two unpatched vulnerabilities in Firefox, the popular alternative web browser. The security bugs affect even the latest version of Firefox (version 1.0.3) and create a means for attackers to seize control of vulnerable systems using cross-site scripting attacks.
There’s countless articles online promoting Firefox over Internet Explorer, claiming it’s more secure and less prone to spyware, but with the recent news stories of Firefox being just as prone to being hacked as Internet Explorer, I wonder if it’s just going to turn into another [insecure] browser.
I’ve been a little wary in moving over to Firefox entirely, largely due to the fact that I do a lot of development in ASP.NET, and some stuff just doesn’t work as well in Firefox.
Perhaps at this point in time, we’re not going to see as many attacks geared towards Firefox, as it’s seen as the nicer alternative to Internet Explorer (and perhaps in some small way, a protest against Microsoft), though as it gains market share, it’s inevitable that such vulnerabilites will be exploited and users will be affected.
It’s always going to be a tough call developing secure software, but as more features are added to Firefox, more bugs are going to creep in. Let’s hope that Mozilla stay on top of things; I’d hate to see Firefox go down the same route as Internet Explorer.
There’s a great article on the Fortune website: Search and Destroy: Why Google scares Bill Gates.
Whoa, the technology of the future is here, and I don’t think it looks good for men!
A Spanish designer has come up with what could be the perfect solution for the woman who feels frustrated that she has to do all the house chores.
It is a washing machine called “Your Turn”, which will not let the same person use it twice in a row.
It uses fingerprint recognition technology to ensure the job of loading is not dumped on just one individual.
Definitely an interesting idea, and I’m sure this will get women all over the world excited about technology! Hope my fiancee doesn’t go getting any ideas heh 
Check out the full article on BBC News.
My premium Hotmail account expires soon, and I decided not to renew it. Moved to GMail a month or two ago, and have fallen in love with the lightning quick speed and application-type interface. Hotmail’s large flashing banner adverts aren’t back on my account yet, though I’m sure they will be soon enough. Thankfully, GMail is now my primary account so I don’t need to login to my Hotmail as much as before 
Just saw this really nice feature on GMail… A friend recently emailed me some vacation pictures which were quite big in size (ie. upwards of 2mb each). GMail automatically resized them and displayed thumbnails within the email message.
Furthermore, there are buttons for ‘Download all attachments’ which allows all the attachments to be grabbed in one easy zip file, and ‘View all images’ allowing all the attached images to be viewed easily one page. Microsoft could learn a thing or two from these guys
My only two gripes with Gmail would be the absence of an email size column, and the lack of a delete button for email (though the GMail delete button script for the GreaseMonkey firefox extension does a good job in solving this).
Rock on GMail