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Paragliding in Spain with Lijar Sur

SkyHorse — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:31:00 +0000

Paragliding is probably the closest you will get to flying like a bird. I just finished a pilot training course in Algodonales with Lijar Sur, a well recommended Spanish school, and came back not only addicted to free flying but also with a great enthusiasm for the Spanish hospitality and life style, which our instructors [...]

You’ve been de-Phormed, have a nice day :)

SkyHorse — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:19:18 +0000

Thanks to privacy advocate and anti-phorm campaigner Peter John of www.deformation.org.uk I found the way to stop Phorm from snooping and using your website’s data for their benefit. In fact it’s quite simple as long as you have PHP or some server side technology on your web server. An image (or another) request to your site responds [...]

How does your website look like under Dillo 0.8 on a FreeBSD?

SkyHorse — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:00:48 +0000

Ever wondered how your web site looks like under Epiphany 2.22 running on FreeBSD 7.0? Ok a bit too obscure, how about on FireFox 3.0.3 under the now ubiquitous Ubuntu 8.04 without installing neither of them? Browsershots.org can help. This free service produces screen shots of any web site URL as it is rendered using a [...]

HTTP and HTTPS tags without using JavaScript

SkyHorse — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:44:55 +0000

Very neat trick I found out recently is that if you omit the protocol from an HTML src tag it will use the same protocol as the current URL, which is ideal if you need to have one universal HTML tag that works with both HTTP and HTTPS without having to use JavaScript tricks to [...]

Top tips for flying in comfort and style

SkyHorse — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:20:46 +0000

Let’s be honest, the glamour and sophistication of jetting around the world only subsided during the early days of commercial aviation, when pilots were Adonis-like creatures and stewardesses were admired for nothing more than their glamour. Nowadays with the number of passenger reaching 70 million a year at Heathrow alone you are more likely than [...]

Deep Packet Inspection takes another blow

SkyHorse — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:36:17 +0000

After US congress put a halt to ISP-based tracking while they try to figure out where the “creepy factor” line is, NebudAd suspended it’s activities, Front Porch was forced to shut off the behavioural tracking part of their system and the latest to throw in the towel is now Adzilla who have put up on [...]

V-moda saga part 3: V-moda admits design flaw in the Vibe DUO headphones

SkyHorse — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:42:55 +0000

It happened again, of course. The Ferrari of the headphones predictably crashed after 5 weeks of regular use, a new record even for them. This being the 3rd pair of v-moda headphones that stopped working I wrote a polite little message along with my request for warranty forms saying I did not want another pair [...]

CPM vs CPA

SkyHorse — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:44:28 +0000

I’ve been recently discussing with industry friends what is going to be pricing model of the future: the publisher-friendly CPM or the advertiser-dream CPA. The industry as it stands now sees CPA as the bastard child of online advertising and many times regarded as the “dirty cheap stuff” associated with online gambling, porn and other [...]