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Originally created as a place for me to store some notes, this blog comments on my daily encounters with technology and aims to share some of this knowledge with fellow systems administrators and technical architects across the 'net. Amazingly, it's become quite popular!

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Archive for March 22nd, 2006

Why have some of my PageRanks dropped?

It’s well known that the Google index is based on the PageRank system, which can be viewed using the Google Toolbar.

But something strange has happened on this blog - the main blog entry page has a PageRank of 5, the parent website has a PageRank of 4, but the PageRanks for most of the child […]

Public/private key cryptography in plain(ish) English

Public key infrastructure (PKI) is one of those things that sounds like a good idea, but which I can never get my head around. It seems to involve so many terms to get to grips with and so, when Steve Lamb presented a “plain English” PKI session at Microsoft UK a few weeks back, I […]