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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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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