Everything (including the iPhone) can and will be hacked

Posted by Paul Raven @ 01-07-2007 in General

The system-restore data image for Apple’s new iPhone is already loose on the internet.

My money says it’ll be under a month before the first flashable mods for the OS are available. The term ‘closed system’ has a half-life, just like radioactives.

Friday Photo Blogging: Beneath the pier, the rust

Posted by Paul Raven @ 16-02-2007 in General

So, here is a picture of the murky underside of Velcro City’s South Parade Pier*, taken on a surprisingly sunny day about a fortnight ago. Not the most recent of photos, but time, weather and resources have not permitted any shutterbug adventures of late.

South Parade Pier, Southsea

I like all the lines and angles, the rust – it’s like a poem of engineering, a mumbled story about the decay of Victorian values entangled with the detritus of what came after. Something like that.

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