I had a visit today from the Mother and Godmother so I could give tem some lessons in how to set their website up. Talk about bridging the generation gap! I’m not sure who had the biggest culture shock – them coming to terms with file transfers, image re-sizing and database structure or me trying […]
Entries from January 30th, 2007
Ministry of Truth
January 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Technology
I think the Ministry of Truth is a bit of a ‘marmite blog’ which you either love or hate, but surely even its biggest fans must have experienced a dread sinking in the stomach to read the opening lines of this post: This is going to be a long post, even by my standards, but […]
Tags: Blogging
Bad Behavior
January 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Bad Behavior · Technology
On the advice of my favourite Timelord over at Wongablog, I downloaded and installed Bad Behavior (*) to try and stem the flow of spam, which was getting annoying – it was not unusual to be getting more than 100 spam comments in an hour which were not picked up by Akismet and which had […]
Under the weather
January 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
With the weather so changeable it is hard to stay under it – but we have managed! Jayne has had a particularly nasty cold-type thing, which led to her losing her voice (and also her job… she was temping in a job which required talking on the phone all the time)
Tags: Family·Medicine/Health
Poor Jermaine
January 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on Poor Jermaine · Technology
I won’t even pretend to know much about Celebrity Big Brother apart from one thing – Jermaine Jackson is doomed. I have not seen the show so I don’t know what he has been up to or what he is like: I am basing this on the three things I do know: Viewers can vote […]
Tags: TV
A lesson in manners
January 26th, 2007 · Comments Off on A lesson in manners · Life
The other night Arsenal beat Manchester United with a very very late goal. The parallels with a certain other Arsenal game this season are irresistible: Both teams really needed the points for various reasons It was looking like a draw was inevitable Game stolen at the last gasp by the home team Manager of scoring […]
Tags: Football
Bare-faced cheek
January 26th, 2007 · Comments Off on Bare-faced cheek · Life
Two examples of bare-faced cheek today, one which amused me and one which amazed me. The one which amazed me was Tottenham Hotspurs’ reaction to being given a bye to the last 16 of the UEFA cup. The story is that they were to play Feyenoord, but Feyenoord got into some trouble over crowd violence, […]
Heavy weather
January 26th, 2007 · Comments Off on Heavy weather · Life
One of the least original things to say must be to comment on how ridiculous it is that in a country which experiences winter every year, and has done for as long as anyone can remember, our services just can’t cope. The only thing more predictable than the fact that it will get cold at […]
Renters pay council tax too!
January 26th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Politics, Work
I saw this story on the BBC website about valuations for council tax. it is all about how the original valuations were rushed through and so some properties may be in the wrong council tax band. The headline is Homeowners 'must check tax band'. Why only homeowners? Is there a general assumption that everybody owns […]
Tags: Local Government
Days like this
January 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Technology
Is it a really bad day for spam generally, or is it just me? Has anyone else had a deluge today? I have had 5,000 (!) spam comments for moderation today. That is 5,000 comments on top of the ones picked up by Akismet. I am wondering if this is just a one-off, or if […]
