Getting paid hundreds of thousands of pounds of licence payers’ money to play records on a radio station whose listenership could fit in your average village hall does wonders for the economy. [Blognor Regis]
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Laze and Gem This will be the last post until Sunday from me [there might be some posts from JD or Chuckles but I don't know]. The site will be erratically checked by either myself or someone else for any legit comments which were spammed. It really will be erratic though. Basically, there’s a three [...]
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That one at the Register on acceptable sites to communicate through: Twitter is fine for civil servants at the Department for Work and Pensions but Facebook is strictly banned, the Minister for Employment Chris Grayling ruled in a response to a written question by Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson. As well as tweeting, Work & [...]
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Just a quick one. The spam problem seems to have been sorted – excessively so – but mine host brought up an interesting one today: “You might be getting no spam but how do you know that it’s not deleting genuine comments?” Had nothing to do with it always spamming him, did it, eh? Hmmm [...]
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There needs to be some mechanism for inserting snippets onto this site without going into full-blown posts. So let’s call these … er … oh … snippets, for want of a better word. There’ll be many of them, at random. Here’s one from Adam Smith’s heirs: Turning to the first of the recommendations, ring-fencing is [...]
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I made another attempt, uninstalling Flashplayer and resinstalling it, going through Firefox preferences over and over, seeing where youtube could be enabled. In the applications window of Firefox, it does not have Flashplayer listed and yet it was downloaded and sits happily in my computer apps folder. Firefox is meant to automatically include downloads in [...]
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Thanks to the 20 or so who gave responses. This is something for me to be going on with now and I appreciate your feedback. Reactions:
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PDPS Internet have launched its global hosting packages. These new packages are offered via 3 new sites, PDPS Internet USA, PDPS Internet EU and PDPS Internet UK, shortly to be followed by PDPS Internet Australia. Offered in conjunction with our hosting partner LiquidNet, we are able to offer customers a choice of hosting locations in [...]
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In the past few days, this site took a hit and among other things, lost all pics from July to September. I’ve discovered one of the possible causes was a site running bitcoin and that followed the Twitter hit. Either way, it’s back in operation but needs rebuilding. To help with this, I’d like to [...]
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These next three days will be a semi-hiatus. RL has caught up and there are some things which must be completed today, then tomorrow it might fall apart after an interview I have. There are two other issues as well. I’ll try to post and get to comments on those posts but it’s going to [...]
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Two worthy gentlemen have pointed out that when they enter the front page of nourishing obscurity, some noise or vibration ensues. One at OoL says that when he clicked on my name, it took him to the old site, which is interesting as it takes me here. I’d appreciate your comment on any anomalies you’ve [...]
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On the NHS: The NHS saved 3,951 lives per million of the population, compared to just 2,779 in France and 2,395 in Germany. But and there’s always a but: On Vision Deficit Syndrome:
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Most passwords are hacked by ‘Social Engineering’ rather than brute force. A useful rule of thumb in such things is also that certain choices are NEVER suitable as passwords e.g.The example passwords on the ‘choose a password’ screen Passwords like ‘XYZZY’, ‘hunter2′ or ‘squeamish ossifrage’
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Image text – To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize.
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The details of the new treaty are out and they’re jawdropping in their chutzpah: Abridged version at OoL Full Version at IPJ Basically: What do you do when you get into financial trouble. What do you do when all your friends are in financial trouble as well? Do you cut your spending? Do you borrow [...]
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At Orphans of Liberty now.
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On the plague of Nazi raccoons: Sweden is bracing for an amphibious assault by a considerable force of raccoon dogs and raccoons, poised to cross the Öresund strait which separates the country from neighbouring Denmark. Urgent report on a Tory toff: Cameron is a typical baby-eating Tory bastard who worships the market on ideological grounds and has [...]
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Most bloggers do similar but it’s something I did a lot of in the early years, then gave it away. Maybe it’s time to begin again: On the looters: One of them was quite badly beaten, in full view of the police, who took the failed looter away when the local people were finished with [...]
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On this wet Bank Holiday weekend, naturally, I’ve come down with the dreaded lurgy and am pretty well out of it for the foreseeable. I’ve put up a post about LA and there were already a Wimmin on Bicycles and Dearieme scheduled for late afternoon/evening. There’ll be one other post if I can get it [...]
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Just to confuse the issue, checkout my old site, now revamped: http://nourishingobscurity.wordpress.com Still being constructed. It will be the failsafe any time this one goes down, rather than the blogger site.
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Just about to hit the hay and saw this, at Angus‘s: Sad news today, I received an email from Sally in Norfolk this morn, my dear blogging friend Devonshire Dumpling (DD) of “No Clue” passed away in July, I will miss her writing, sense of humour and comments; life really is a bitch. That’s a [...]
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There’s something happening and the portal seems to be through Twitter. Naturally I changed all the passwords and have now changed them again but they may have details already. It began with a message to me from Gawain Towler that he had pictures of me which were funny. Then they came thick and fast, always [...]
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What I wrote at Mark Wadsworth’s notwithstanding, I don’t consider myself in this race but I am going to nominate 10 UK bloggers and I know seven of them already. The last time I got anywhere [2008] was when I was considered in the Tory fold but since then I’ve attacked all and sundry, on [...]
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My thoughts are with Tom and his family at this time. This sort of thing is a major body blow – it’s near impossible to take. I can only say that she is out of her distress now and will meet him some time in the future [our perception of time].
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Research can be a little like batting in cricket – you get it right 90% of the time but that 10% of the time you drop your concentration, the enemy swoops and catches you out. Where the analogy falls down is that, even with that 10% in research, it doesn’t always greatly alter the overall [...]
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This site has had many guestposters over the years and one of my tasks this summer is to collate and make a proper linked list of these, with their posts, on an accessible page. Then I can run the occasional post as a reissued special. Some time back, I put out a call for regular [...]
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Angus reports that according to “experts”: Internet Explorer users have a lower than average IQ, according to research by Consulting firm AptiQuant. The study gave web surfers an IQ test, and then plotted their scores against the browser they used. IE surfers were found to have an average IQ lower than people using Chrome, Firefox [...]
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