Michael S. Clark

A London cash machine operator has turned some of its ATM units into Cockney rhyming slang outposts.
Five of the Bank Machine’s ATMs have been updated with the backdated vocabulary option and, for example, may ask users for their Huckleberry Finn instead of their PIN. Both inventive and forward thinking, those Cockneys.
[Via: L'Inq]

Tayside Police have restored their website following an embarrassing defacement late last week.
Surfers visiting the site from late afternoon on Thursday were confronted by a defacement, claimed in the name of Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle, and accompanied by notes more in the style of Irvine Welsh than Jim Taggart.
The text included in the defacement suggests [...]

URL shortening services are ubiquitous on Twitter and other cramped online spaces. They won’t all last, as tr.im has demonstrated, and their shutdowns could annihilate your linking history. If you own a domain, though, you can host your own service.
[Via: lifehacker]
Updated: Since I’m using Google Apps, I simply installed Google Short Links from Google Labs.
Google Short [...]

A couple of useful links for registering domain names:
http://domai.nr
http://www.gandi.net

I’ve officially launched Alfie’s own website, also based on WordPress.
You can find it at http://www.alfieclark.com