Many bloggers/readers have been scathing about how Google seems to have lost the plot of late. I’ve read and heard what these bloggers/readers have been saying but haven’t had any personal issues since 2008 when a nutter decided to flag my Blogger site for inappropriate content and Blogger’s reaction was to shut it down immediately. [...]
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This post about the future of Wikipedia looks at its problems: Just as there are free software and open source factions that work together for a common cause, but eternally snipe at each other over details, so the Wikipedia community harbors two groups that agree to disagree on what is the proper scope for the [...]
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1. The GV News – check it out. A nice compendium of all things GVish. 2. Harry Hook is dead – at least his blog is and goes into the honour roll. Vale, dear sir. 3. AK Haart writes on the Chaldon Wall Painting. 4. Macheath writes on the Buggrit. 5. Everyone but me [...]
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No posts or comments today. See you on the other side.
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Macheath on the money again re spurious calls for help: It’s an unfortunate combination, and one we’ve seen at work with the RNLI; an emergency response organisation with no alternative but to take each call seriously is forever at the beck and call of the thoughtless (not to mention intoxicated), who can summon assistance at [...]
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Bloggers are forever stopping blogging and then coming back when the urge or the rage get the better of them and in many cases, we’re glad they did come back. I have no intention of ever stopping, I’m not jaded, the material pours in from the main sources, it gets a lick of paint and [...]
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Very pleased to have completed the Guestposter page, which now includes the co-authors at NO. There might be errors but no one intentionally left out. Some links might be old and not work anymore and so on but we’ll sort that out along the way. Anyway, read and enjoy some of those posts over there.
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Just sorted out the utilities today finally – mucho phono and they’ve called off the bailiffs – so now let’s see something else go wrong. All being equal though, things should hold out till New Year and that’s my definition of a Merry Christmas – to be on top of matters without someone coming at [...]
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Many of you have been keeping an eye on the Roger Tattersall [Tallbloke] situation and have noted Anthony Watts’ [Watts Up with That] publishing of an appeal for Tallbloke. As El Reg put it: Police have targeted at least four climate bloggers in three countries, with constabulary taking computers and networking equipment from a science [...]
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Even bankers are hoarding food How dithering leads to misery: Agonising over problems means you’re never happy with your decision Men are just beasts: Former lovers of undercover officers sue police over deceit Crimewave of foreign thugs the Tories promised to kick out The school where pupils have etiquette lessons: Comprehensive hires expert to teach [...]
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There appear to be a number of Blogger/Google comments forms but for those fellow blogger readers who do happen to venture this way and are not miffed by my non-commenting, may I bring it to your attention that if you run this sort of comment form below: … then that’s why I haven’t commented for [...]
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UPDATE: Eureka – unexpected postponement until Monday. Get some of the other jobs done and get around the blogs. There are issues – the required reading for the course and I’m behind, with an assessment tomorrow, the other work things which are piling up, BT redefining my contract today and making something happen which logs [...]
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Jailhouse Lawyer makes a good point: Approximately 90% of Russia’s inmates serving time in the country’s penitentiaries have cast their ballots in the parliamentary elections, NTV news channel said on Sunday. With only five hours remaining until polls close in Russia’s westernmost time zone in the exclave of Kaliningrad, 25.4% of eligible voters have cast [...]
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Raedwald: There is one question that no-one has asked of the rioters so far to my knowledge; “did you grow up with your biological father?” You see, I think I know the answer to this already – that an overwhelming majority of them will be growing up or have grown up with an absent father – but [...]
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Things did miraculously come good. That last post was sent via email to JD who posted it. Should have been an intro from him but not to worry, grateful he posted it. This brings up the thought that I need to be careful what I schedule because if posts are happily coming up [this one [...]
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Cherie‘s quote about attribution is being discussed over at OoL.
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In the induction for training for my new position, I was asked: “Which groups do you consider are discriminated against?” I replied: “The most discriminated against at this time are the aging white British male and to a lesser extent, the aging white British female.” There was a sharp intake of breath from her and [...]
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This site has three authors, the main one, with responsibility for the images onsite, is James Higham. This page now was written on November 26th, 2011. Copyright has changed through amendments to the law but as relating to blogs and images, the law allows an author and/or owner to assert copyright and give the blogger [...]
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Certain people with nothing else to do have speculated about the indistinct, distant photos of Higham and what this most ordinary, run-of-the-mill person actually looks like in real life. Now a photo of him at the beach has leaked out: David Icke is currently studying the creature as the descended rump of some mutated and [...]
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They’re watching you, young man:
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I can neither endorse nor not endorse this because I don’t know but shall leave it for your perusal: Klout are flagrantly in violation of UK data protection law. Their terms and conditions, and their privacy policy, are riddled with loopholes that permit them to resell personal data. They violate Principle 1 of the Act [...]
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There’ve been many comments from people over time about this site and the one which sticks in my mind is Pavlov’s Cat‘s when he said [* please see comments for clarification] I was doing myself a disservice with all the lighthearted topics. That’s interesting because at the same time, another reader wrote, “A bit less [...]
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I’m on an induction course tomorrow and Thursday, then on Friday at another one and work on Saturday. Going to be interesting at the blog and at OoL. Have to post when possible.
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Most people in the UK are suffering to a greater or lesser degree and though much of it is down to being at the mercy of the meatheads who force you onto the chaingangs – I’m on one today and I work tomorrow anyway, there’s another next week – we also have to blame ourselves [...]
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I didn’t quite realize how much the techie community detested Steve Jobs and his Mac [plus the rest of it]. But they appear to: RMS, for all his flaws, understands that the stakes in this argument go beyond narrow issues like what computer or smartphone to buy. Human cognition is messy and all sorts of [...]
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As usual, the real interest is in the comments. First, the post: Every person or account on Twitter has a Kred score, which is made up of two parts: the influence score and the outreach score. Your influence score is a measure of your ability to inspire others. It is a number on a scale [...]
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Adrian Short: When you use a free web service you’re the underclass. At best you’re a guest. At worst you’re a beggar, couchsurfing the web and scavenging for crumbs. It’s a cliche but it’s worth repeating: if you’re not paying for it you’re the product not the customer.
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Register: Hackers recently compromised the website hosting the open-source MySQL database management system and caused it to infect the PCs of visitors who used unpatched browsers and plug-ins, security researchers said. MySQL.com was infected with mwjs159, website malware that often spreads when compromised machines are used to access restricted FTP clients servers, a blog post [...]
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Don’t usually do this but three posts currently getting heavy attention here are: http://nourishingobscurity.blogspot.com/2009/08/common-purpose-meanwhile-in-america.html http://nourishingobscurity.com/2009/12/02/why-i-think-amanda-knox-is-guilty/ … and to a lesser extent: http://nourishingobscurity.com/2011/09/22/the-fatal-error-of-the-ptb/ The last was because of Ranty, the middle because of TJMK and the first – don’t really know why after all this time but it’s getting hit significantly this evening.
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