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Understanding the dwarf planet(s)

20th July, 2007  |  Steve @ 10:14 am
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Huh. Well, you learn something every day.

If you’ve been watching the news, you’ll know how Pluto was controversially “demoted” to a dwarf planet last year.

This morning, I was reading how astronomers think they’ve found evidence of underground running water on Charon. Depending on current definitions, Charon is known as either Pluto’s primary moon or as Pluto’s partner in a double dwarf planet system.

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Already? IE7 security holes

20th October, 2006  |  Steve @ 10:03 am
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For anyone that hasn’t been bombarded with recent marketing, Microsoft has finally released IE7 — the successor to its ancient and much-maligned Internet Explorer browser.

IE7 is being hailed as Microsoft’s trump card on the web. If you ask anyone in the know, there are better features and security in nearly any other browser, but Microsoft does have the market cornered, with IE7 set to be rolled out automatically to millions of computers via Windows Update.

IE7 vulnerabilities… already?

Unfortunately, the day after IE7’s big release, Secunia already lists two security flaws:  Read more »

Is it still cold out?

22nd September, 2006  |  Steve @ 2:24 pm
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Yes, I know there hasn’t been much movement around here for some time. I’ve been in a bit of hibernation over winter (plus a bit).

Not that we have a very cold in winter here in Sydney (but it feels like we’re going to have a scorching summer this year), but it sounds better than just saying “I’ve been busy”… ;)

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