What I've been up to by Text today

My daily digest of texts, tweets and status updates.

• 00:46 watching old Trek with Jennie. It's still awful. #
• 01:44 possible Wordpress and Facebook security flaw? tinyurl.com/59ytv5 Anyone know more? #

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Linkspam for 6-5-2008

• Why some mayoral votes counted but not others-Make My Vote Count
  So many times during the campaign I meant to write up an analysis of Hennessy's Bloody Stupid Voting System, never did. Here's the main problem with it over AV, which he thinks we're too stupid for.
  (tags: voting+systems mayoralty)
• Nonsensical excuses for Labour failure - By Bob Marshall-Andrews -Telegraph
  The Labour spin team are blaming last weeks results on the mistake of the 10p tax thing. I think it went much deeper than that and that was merely the proverbial straw. Bob agrees, not sure everything he says here is right, but interesting reading
  (tags: bob+marshall-andrews Labour policy)
• Obsolete: Why Ken lost to Boris.
  I had planned to write a post on why Ken lost and similar, I've linked to a few things pointing out the futility of some of the anti-Boris campaigning and reactions, but Obsolete has done the rest for me, so have a link.
  (tags: election london mayoralty)
• Mapp vs Review: GTA IV
  Mark reviews That Game. I have no interest in it, but I like his reviews, so for those of you that like or want to know more about That Game, go read.
  (tags: GTA4 friends Review)
• Wordpress, Facebook and PHPbb security flaw?
  I know nothing about this other than what's presented, but will be upgrading my sites ASAP, heads up for those using it elsewhere and worth a check, also check your Facebook comments for dodgy links, etc.
  (tags: wordpress security botnets)
• 5 Reasons Why [personal] Websites should be (more) standards-based | JeremiahTolbert.com
  Jeremy wrote this aimed specifically at authors, but I think it applies to everyone. I need to update all my sites, especially the taktix domain, and XHTML is the way to go these days.
  (tags: web+design xhtml web+standards)
• Free Little Brother for teachers, librarians: a tipjar alternative for people who loved the ebook - Cory Doctorow
  Cory with an interesting alternative payment system for his free eBooks. He's giving away Little Brother free, but if you want to pay him, why not donate a copy to a library? (waiting for the paperback as always)
  (tags: cory+doctorow ebooks)