The other day, I quoted a guy on the awfulness of the new Gmail. Twilight came in, quite rightly, with the awfulness of Blogger: Blogger (linked to Google) is also parading a new interface and causing many bloggers to threaten emigration to WordPress. I understand that Google is trying to create a uniform “look” to [...]
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Well, well, well – I thought I was the only one who hated it: It looks like Google has finally pulled the plug on the old GMail UI. As far as I can tell, this redesign is just change for the sake of change. I can’t see a single improvement! But I can spot three [...]
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Ringfences are meant to be jumped: The most common way until now has been a browser plugin, like MAFIAAFire, but alternate DNS systems are starting to become more popular. One of those, OpenNIC, is looking to capitalise on that with its new .pirate TLD (top level domain). Registration takes just minutes, and then your new [...]
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Rebekah CHARGED: Murdoch’s former right-hand woman and husband Charlie both accused of perverting course of justice in phone-hacking scandal It’s a measure of the capriciousness of humans that we can condone one thing but seek resolution for another. If Brooks hadn’t grinned about what she’d done, I’d have not been all that bothered. Now it’s [...]
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Frankly, this has been a rotten two days and all manner of things have gone awry. For a start, Saturday is the graveyard day for this blog – it starts going down on Friday afternoon, is always at its worst on Saturday and starts coming up again on Monday – consistently and uncannily so, in [...]
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Via Slashdot, Hentes writes: “The internet has made many things easier, but unfortunately this also includes crime: it seems that nowadays not even people wanting to know their future are safe from fraud. Two fortune tellers are being investigated, after the Romanian police uncovered that they have utilized some extraordinary help in their clairvoyant acts. [...]
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“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it” – John Gilmore This is a joint haiku/JH post. Haiku provided the material and the narratives, JH linked the narratives. As a result of the ruling: The ability of one [totally clueless] person to change the world: http://torrentfreak.com/uk-isps-must-censor-the-pirates-bay-high-court-rules -120430/
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Macheath: while the allegedly boracic* Wapping-based Baroness will return after the Queen’s Speech in May Woodsy: Google rate the Euro an “unsupported currency”. Martin Kelly: Seeing both Rangers Football Club and the Scottish National Party in such turmoil could almost make one think we are seeing could be called a ‘Scottish Spring’; like the Arab [...]
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At my mother’s funeral, I told her favourite joke, which most people weren’t expecting to happen. When I broke my wrist bobsledding, bone sticking through, the only way to cope with the beefy boys at the hospital struggling to haul the hand back into place was to make jokes about it. I only ever got [...]
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Direct Advertising is an area few bloggers venture into – the furthest they get is Ad Sense. Google has its own ideas how much you can carry as well. Whether to run ads or not as a way of offsetting costs is fair but there are factors to consider: Traffic: Blog advertising works on CPM [...]
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An emailed concern by Wiggia preceding the previous post today, along with various comments by others over the recent life of this blog need to be addressed, methinks. This is the second most popular post at this moment and this the most popular. My Easter posts [as distinct from JD's] have been getting 4 readers [...]
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The main reason I have the Google tower ads in the right sidebar is twofold – the sheer entertainment value and the way the site seems more colourful with them. You might not be too moved by the colour of a blog, insisting it is the quality of the writing which matters but we simple [...]
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Sometimes someone says something which stops you in your tracks and makes you think. Steve W, at OoL, commenting on me: “Penultimately, how many people are actually still reading this post and for that matter, how many saw my name and immediately turned away?” Superb levels of self awareness. Just to add, I generally find [...]
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First, on Orphans of Liberty, our techie reports: DOS type traffic problem. Servers running fine, it’s simply being overwhelmed by the incoming requests, no bandwidth left to send anything. There’s certainly mania behind the people doing this, as well as with the latest attempt to regulate the net, which was hit by such universal vilification. [...]
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For a start, it was a bit too late to do Nightcap as I peg out early evening, brainwise and am struggling even now, at 21:24. The best posts don’t come at this time. Basically, there’s so much material coming through, at about 70 – 80 emails a day, e.g. … and some have multiple [...]
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When will I love you? Good Lord, I don’t know, maybe never, maybe tomorrow but not today, that’s for sure. Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame and you can call him (although it is) quite in vain because it suits him not to come. Nothing helps, neither threat nor prayer. One man [...]
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Food for thought: If you have a .com domain name, or other at-risk domain names like .net, you are subject to US domestic laws and jurisdiction. This allows the US government to seize your website or even seek your extradition to USA to stand trial, based on allegations of breaking their laws. You’re also at [...]
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# It was Wolfie’s comment which led to this post. I really don’t like when men put women down as in that first vid and in the third. If they’re going to make comments about women, then a blog like this is the place to do it, never face-to-face with her, to humiliate her. Humiliation [...]
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# I’m afraid I had to comment on this vid at the Mail because journo and quite a few commenters got the situation wrong: Here’s the comment I left at the Mail: People, this is not one where the male/female driver debate is relevant. Russian housing blocks have service roads going around them, connected to [...]
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# Last evening’s Nightcap went way longer than intended and a therapist might say: “Ah, cognitive dissonance.” When you’ve grown up with such good female role models as I’ve been lucky enough to have, you develop love for the female, not Greer’s version of hate. The reason I don’t mince words these days is that the [...]
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It’s been worrying me recently that a perfectly understandable detestation of feminists, based on their words and actions and what they’ve done to women, which of late has moved into a detestation of parachutees has, looking at the number of recent posts on the theme, gone over the line into the area of obsession. Even [...]
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# Bruce Scheier via Haiku and an Australian security theatre quote: Aviation officials have questioned the need for such a strong permanent police presence at airports, suggesting they were there simply “to make the government look tough on terror”. One senior executive said in his experience, the officers were expensive window-dressing. “When you add the [...]
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# Dennis Waterman’s wifebeating – obviously not on, no matter how provocative the woman was but it does raise a philosophical question. If you accept perfect equality, then logically you treat everyone equally. Men generally only wind one another up to a point because if a man challenges the other’s honour in a way which [...]
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# This is the third attack involving a gunman escaping on a motorcycle to take place in south western France in the last week. # In completely different news, Sarkozy is heading for defeat and needs an issue he can be a hero over. Something has to come up, anything, so he can pull the [...]
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# Am retaining the single malt pic, adding another and calling the nightly post Nightcap. That way I can run it around 10 p.m., before people fall asleep on the couch or get up to other things. # A pox upon ‘im. Sunday is a day of rest: Osborne to announce Sunday trading changes # [...]
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# Oh my goodness, here we go again: Woman soldier who was struggling to cope with working 80-hour weeks hanged herself in her barracks after scrawling ‘I’m sorry’ in lipstick on mirror It’s stupidity, it really is. I mean, well done to the ladies for having the spirit to try to be equal and the [...]
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# England 30 – Ireland 9: Well done, pity you couldn’t do it last year. Italy 13 – Scotland 6: How low have the Scots sunk? Must be all that independence. Wales 16 – France 9: Congrats, Wales, you deserved it. # I said today at work – I want one penny for every glass [...]
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Courtesy Brenda, via haiku: In a dark street bordering a cemetery in Mexico, a guy rigged a remote controlled motorbike with a skeleton driving the bike that has a speaker attached to it. The guy hides across the street from a walled cemetery and when people walk by it at night, the skeleton rides up [...]
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# Not altogether sure of the fine detail with this one but Daniel has the details. It’s to do with Olly Cromwell and I do think Cap’n Ranty might be interested. Essentially, Olly was at a council meeting and he criticized them. He was charged with harassment. They failed to find evidence, dropped it, but [...]
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# Courtesy Barking Spider: Why is it whenever I see something like this, the word “deport” wafts through the mind? Why do I feel a certain annoyance with these people? Why do I feel a certain annoyance with people who try to equate and conflate this lot with Christianity? # Daniel has changed home. Please [...]
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