World Opinion Poll, September 2008 There was a post scheduled for now but in the light of various things being said around the sphere this morning, I need to run this post instead. At my friend and colleague Longrider‘s site, one commenter wondered that “conspiracy theorists” should still be pushing this one. Another, Chris Snowdon, [...]
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There’ll be a 12 hour hiatus at this blog, while I prepare a post for Orphans promised for this evening [ETA 19:00]. Sorry.
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Click pic Bill Sticker had me smiling: What is it with you Brits and cream? Hes it suddenly become illegal or what? Every single Coffee shop I’ve been into since entering the UK has given me a funny look when I’ve asked for cream with my coffee. Luikkerland speaks the truth, for which he’s marginalized: [...]
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Temporary notice to take down later. Sat 05:56 Decision this evening. 22:11 Came back briefly, then died again. 20:14 BT admits they’re having problems. It was looking DDoS until then. Still down. 15:53 Might be DoS – not sure, tracing now. Backup site not necessary yet. Come back in a couple of hours and it [...]
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Calum informs afficianados: Another change is that I can now listen to music with no stress of having to do so to meet my blog commitments. I now have a new YouTube playlist of 120 or so videos which will remain as a resource … The first two are from this delectable list:
Caedmon’s Cat: “You’ve been blessed with a greater insight into the wicked ways of the world than we humans; you can smell what we can only discern by our reason and understanding. You can smell the Odour of Sanctimony. It comes from the mouth of the Devil.” Quizzical Observer [playing away]:
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The categories facility is being revamped and a widget now appears in the sidebar: 1. New categories are being added to take the place of some of the old, e.g. Arts & Culture is being phased out, to be replaced by Art or Music or Literature & Media etc. [Not fully ready yet - long [...]
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Recent research has revealed that white van drivers are the brightest on the road, ahead of BMW drivers and cyclists. I used to have a white van (well, it was a Transit pick-up actually. My vans were blue) James is a cyclist…… Rossa drives a BMW……… Just saying, that’s all. _________________________ JD‘s profile and a [...]
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What LA-NY folks call ‘flyover country’ is the heart and soul of the US. It is where Everyman lives, it is where people retain what are known as ‘the old values’ and continue to try to live up to them. It is conservative with a small ‘c’, it believes in ‘love thy neighbour’ (even if [...]
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Orphans of Liberty appears to be down at this moment. There are no explanations as we seem to have lost communication with the host. I have some ideas of what’s happened and from whom. More later. UPDATE: One of the admins is able to be communicated with. Immediate thoughts at this end are that the [...]
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Mark Steyn: We’re one lesbian away from a bona fide Fleet Street “trend”. Further to yesterday’s post, a lesbian blogger who helped unmask the Syrian lesbian blogger as a middle-aged American male has herself been revealed to be a middle-aged American male: In an apology to its readers, one of the other owners, Linda Carbonell, wrote: [...]
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Enough of the frivolity on this site – time to get serious for a moment, readers. You’ll all remember this of course. You may even remember this. It was a warning to all of you in cyberspace. Now JD has sent an SOS – yet more evidence, as if you needed it: From the U.S. [...]
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[Courtesy Bill Sticker]
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Hasn’t been an issue for a long time. Noticed this evening that it had spammed a lot of regular commenters again, as it did in the bad old days. Also a huge influx of spam overall. Thought that had all finished, with the tweaking we did. Appears we might have to again. Apologies.
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What do you think? The Phantom protocol is a system for decentralized anonymization of generic network traffic. It has been designed with the following main goals in mind: 1. Completely decentralized. – No critical or weak points to attack or put (il)legal pressure on. 2. Maximum resistance against all kinds of DoS attacks. – Direct [...]
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Ten majors with the highest median earnings per year: Petroleum engineering: $120,000 Pharmacy sciences and administration: $105,000 Mathematics and computer science: $98,000 Aerospace engineering: $87,000 Chemical engineering: $86,000 Electrical engineering: $85,000 Naval architecture and marine engineering: $82,000 Mechanical engineering: $80,000 Metallurgical engineering: $80,000 Mining and mineral engineering: $80,000 Ten majors with the lowest median earnings [...]
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….a poem in the preferred Eurolanguage of esperanto- Si Senhor dere dago Forte lorez inaro Desno lorez demar trux Fulla coos anens andux _________________________ JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can be found by clicking on JD in the left sidebar.
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If we really have to fill in those *&^%* word verification things, then at least we can have some fun with them: All her pretty dreams were in ………. Blair and Brown were utter ………. [change one letter] Complete the sentence:
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The policy page has been shortened and streamlined.
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Thanks to those who completed the survey of this site – the results were quite conclusive – to keep the blog running, in a blog [not magazine] format, with content a bit like this: UK politics as is World politics as is Them [Common Purpose etc.] as is or more Music [usually at 19:00] as [...]
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1. Chuckles sends me three links: here, here and here. 2. Notice the G&M did pick up on it yesterday. 3. Reddit picked up on it and gave updates. 4. Small dead animals picked up on it and blogged. 5. I went round the news – Telegraph, Mail, Google – nothing. 6. Wiki has it. [...]
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With the advent of Orphans of Liberty, some of our private blogging has been overshadowed, particularly if they were heavily political blogs in the first place. Though mine has a political thread running through it, somewhat caustically, there are other things in it as well and that raises some questions. Tom said that the multi-author [...]
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If those spiky-hairs, France or Blue win, I’m leaving this planet. The wine is at hand and the pizza. The Guardian’s live blogging. Are you organized? It begins. Don’t you love the way we approach it: # Do you feel my heartbeat, Europe? He asks. Never mind Europe’s, mine’s finally come out of its catatonic [...]
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No doubt many will be posting on this. I’m surprised at the surprise, to be honest. Chuckles quoted Mark Mayo of Joyent who commented – ‘It was fantasy believing it was possible to pull off a centralized network block storage service in a multi-tenant cloud without any of the architecture shenanigans our enterprise brethren do [...]
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Or Facebook for that matter? I don’t tweet but it’s not because I’m against it, unlike Facebook, which I’m dead against: One, two, three, four, five, six and seven. It’s just that I haven’t got round to it yet. There is great influence claimed for Twitter but there are also detractors, e.g. the Orphans provider: [...]
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Julia M, whose site is well known for her wry observations of the PC madness swirling all about us, posted last evening at Orphans of Liberty under the heading: How Many Nudists Frolic With A Hoe… The tone of the post can be seen in this excerpt: …in an English country garden? Well, at least [...]
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All right, your humble blogger has bowed to the pressure from contributors and readers alike. I thought the new theme was snazzy but unfortunately, it lacked key elements which were needed. Sigh … shan’t go wandering again for a long, long time.
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There are a few issues in the pipeline, especially Putin’s attempt to join the WTO without following the rules and a slightly different look at the BRICS but time simply ran out and I’ll have to resume this evening. Orphans of Liberty is here. END OF POST
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