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Armistice Day From loiswakeman in Devon Life (2 days old)

Today has special meaning for me as for many people - I always prefer to remember on the real Armistice Day rather than Remembrance Sunday. In the past, my thoughts have mostly turned to my maternal g… more

I had to laugh... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (4 days old)

Rupert Murdoch is threatening to stop all his publications appearing in Google News. That will raise the quality of Google News. The bias in his rags does this Australian dinosaur no favours.… more

Strangeness on eBay From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (4 days old)

I was about to list some of my old computer science books on eBay, but they wanted me to list them with free postage. I have asked for that in the Post Office before now, but they just laughed. Pre… more

A planet I visited today. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (4 days old)

I'm building up to an intellectually stimulating post, by playing a little Spore in between putting stuff on eBay. As you may be able to see, I just terraformed this place to T1 for its inhabitant… more

Happy 50th birthday Youssou N'Dour From loiswakeman in Meeja! (4 days old)

A treat for world music fans that I caught in the wee small hours on the BBC World Service: an interview with the immensely charming and (I think) talented Youssou N'Dour. Sometimes, you hear someone … more

Colloquialisms From Munzly in Armchair Revolutionaries (5 days old)

What is your most hated colloquialism? Mine is the use of "of" when writing phrases such as "I would of," rather than "I would have," or "I would've." How do people escape from school with a ha… more

Beware of this one! From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (5 days old)

This scam looks quite realistic, and could potentially be VERY nasty indeed. The clickable link goes to somewhere in Russia, that will attempt to run a PHP program on your computer. Avoid!… more

Gordon Brown can't take a hint! From Munzly in Armchair Revolutionaries (6 days old)

I recently signed a petition on the official Number Ten website asking Gordon Brown to resign. The petition was signed by over 72,000 people. His majority at the last election was 18,216 votes. … more

I'm keeping this simple for Alan. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (8 days old)

I'm going to keep it simple because Alan Johnson has problems understanding science, evidence, truth, and above all he seems to have enormous difficulty understanding classifications. Or perhaps he is… more

More tag woes (bug?, not complaint) From loiswakeman in Help (8 days old)

If I search on a tag in my blog, it says there are no posts matching, but if I click on "more posts tagged with this" at the bottom, the posts are found. EG: Posts tagged with: names of things … more

The names fireworks call themselves From loiswakeman in eye for information (8 days old)

Number 4 in an occasional series: 1 was staplers, 2 was caravans, and 3 was chairs. Some while ago, I got an Epic Fireworks catalogue through the post - why they think a 2-man company would mount a… more

Bonfire Night 2008 From loiswakeman in Devon Life (8 days old)

A poem I wrote this time last year and never got round to posting... Last night, I burnt a thousand peacock feathers, cast-offs from the feather factory, ten tidy bundles of a hundred each. Bro… more

The fuss about tags. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (9 days old)

I'm a bit baffled, I must confess, at the fury that has broken out here. On occasion, I have pointed out to people that they have forgotten to separate their tags with commas, resulting in a huge tag … more

Mad eyes, part 94. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (12 days old)

It is clear now that Alan Johnson wants to be our next mad eyed prime minister. We already know that he does not believe in science, or actual truth, or evidence, preferring rather the views of th… more

Nice helpful comment... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (13 days old)

Here, you could have seen a comment I left on a spammer's blog page, but blog.co.uk have sensibly deleted the blogger who did it. May they rot in the bit-bucket!… more

President or Persistent Pest? From Munzly in Armchair Revolutionaries (14 days old)

Need I say who or where? Blair and Europe, of course! :( Douglas Adams said in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no acco… more

Ironic, or what? From loiswakeman in Meeja! (14 days old)

In the latest O'Reilly catalogue, I was rather amused to find an entry for The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein, which weighs in at 240 pages. A system set up to use 140 character messa… more

Government sacks scientist for telling the truth. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (14 days old)

The BBC version naturally makes more sense than the Daily Mail version. All we need to know about the Daily Fail's reporting is the biased and incorrect headline "Sacked: Drug tsar who claimed Ecst… more

Remind me, why should I obey the law? From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (14 days old)

After all, our government ignores it, time after time, quite blatantly. Take for example the Phorm scandal, where BT spied on its customers. The government was told quite clearly to make BT stop doing… more

Might this be too good to be true? From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (15 days old)

A recent message... Hello, Greetings Sirm // From the Desk of Mr. Pascal Gorkoffi, Jr. Auditing Department in (FINANCIAL BANK TOGO) Lome- Togo ; West Africa . -------------------------------… more

Well done, the Terminator! From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (15 days old)

Arnie has not been getting much help form his state legislature, apparently, and got a bit naughty about it. I remember being told off for doing the same thing on Prestel, a while ago...… more

This little doggie... From loiswakeman in eye for information (17 days old)

I recently installed a trial version of WinZip to see if it was any better than my ancient licensed copy languishing somewhere on floppy disk (!). It wasn't, and I have now decided to uninstall it - v… more

Told you so, part 94. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (19 days old)

"Well, that about wraps it up for God." … more

They must have used a microscope... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (21 days old)

A freebie in the Independent tomorrow, apparently... something small, but very poisonous... The artist got the wierd eyes right, but has exagerated the size of the brain.… more

Hand made furniture for Christmas? From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (21 days old)

And why not? One of my brothers has just put some of his new pieces on eBay... For instance, this spice rack... … more

Why is the Post Office in a mess? From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (21 days old)

Now I have no idea whether Adam Crozier was any use at all when running the Football Association, or even whether he did anything much there to get his pay. But here is what Wikipedia says about his w… more

Tired of handbag spam? From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (22 days old)

This is the web site they are promoting, and it just happens to have a comment page... handbag them… more

The handbag spammer. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (23 days old)

This is who is hiding behind the IP address 123.161.77.87 inetnum: 123.160.0.0 - 123.163.255.255 netname: CHINANET-HA descr: CHINANET henan province network descr: China … more

Amy Winehouse's dad warns MPs.... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (24 days old)

Amy Winehouse's dad warns MPs alcohol can lead to heroin and cocaine. My thanks to the Daily Mirror for this fascinating insight. Only a few months ago, the government was given some advice about d… more

Don't click "Raj Rajaratnam, Founder of Galleon Hedge Fund Arrested" From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (27 days old)

The person or machine who keeps posting these things puts up what appears to be a link to a video. It is not. It is a link to a page that will attempt to infect your computer. To see if a page has … more