As you might have seen from the homepage, I used to work in IT security, I also avidly follow security bulletins and news, so I like to think I'm pretty well-versed in how the internet works and how exceptionally poor our level of online privacy really is.

This tutorial will show you how to change the product code on any Nokia Symbian OS phone. This will allow you to flash the firmware in your phone with any version equal to or higher than your current version, regardless of which network operator and territory you bought it from.

There are four main purposes to changing the product code:

Today I'm gonna be p**sed off in my blog. The time has come to replace my ageing laptop, which at 4 years old finally bit the bullet a couple of weeks ago, when a power cord wrapped around my office chair gave it a sharp tug across the desk as I got up, rendering the hard disk dead.

Anybody who's used Internet Explorer 7 for reading RSS feeds has probably noticed something annoying: it doesn't support feeds with DTDs (Document Type Definitions).