I got a bounced e-mail notice from a good friend who had tried to alert me to something on one of our sites (and not that our access control was out of control!). The e-mail he sent to us had bounced and he was worried something was up. I sent a couple of test e-mails which worked fine and let him know that everything seemed to be in order and to just re-send. Read more...

Great news out of Microsoft today* (am I really saying this? I shock myself sometimes...)! Microsoft has teamed up with Xensource to support Linux installations running as virtual machines on Xen virtualization software when it runs on top of a Windows server. I know that's a mouthful but it's significant in several important ways documented today on The Register. Read more...

Scott McNealy, boss of mega-corporation Sun Microsystems and onetime nemesis of Bill Gates and Microsoft is well-renowned for having said "You have no privacy! Get over it!" This seemed not to bother him or his company very much until recently when he made an amazing about face on the issue. Read more...

I must admit I panicked a bit when I read this at The Reg as much of our code uses PHP or is linked to PHP apps in some way. Steeling myself for a long night's firewall tuning and fending off skiddiots, I was pleased to see that rather than "Mare-D" it should really be called "Linux Worms for Dummies" (and maybe released as a book!) as it relies on register_globals to be turned on. Read more...

We've been meaning to launch the ole corporate blogs for ages. So many things to do, places to go, code to write... Excuses, excuses I know but at long last here we are! The first blog on the MorganAlley site. Read more...