Update: 30th March

More evidence that my previous hosting co., was in technical meltdown. Look at the Google bot stats below… and see if you can spot when Google and my old hosting co., hit an all time low – and how fast the new hosting company is now serving up pages (click for a larger version).

Original Post

There’s a kind of magical number symmetry to the image below. I recall reading somewhere that trust grows slowly on a smooth curve over time, whereas loss of trust occurs in sharp step-changes down – three in this case.

My web hosting company proved too much to bear last week and after over six years with them, I pulled the plug and switched to a competitor’s service. I hadn’t actually realised how bad the service had become until I switched.

Been quiet here on both blogs and in the photography department – right is the reason why. Did you know that ROM packs better than EEPROM, and EEPROM packs better than RAM? Or that the Vpp contact on smartcards is no longer used because it could be exploited via simple power analysis – preventing PIN entry attempts from being written to EEPROM? No? Well neither did I. :-)

Man I’ll be glad when this is over. Only three months to go and I get my life back. That said I’ve packed more into my cerebral EEPROM in the last six months than I have in the last six years. The Web security and identity management stuff has been particularly good. Not 100% sure yet – but might like to do something in the area of identify management and privacy for my final project.

Watch this space…