There has been plenty of comment about Gordon Brown’s teeth, mostly concentrating on whether it was right to go private instead of using an NHS dentist and whether the treatment was mainly medical or cosmetic. I don’t think enough has been made of the most important little detail of the whole thing – he had […]
Entries from March 17th, 2007
Lucky lucky West Ham
March 17th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
By all accounts West Ham were lucky to get a rare win today, being awarded a goal when the ball didn’t cross the line. It makes up for all the times we have been unlucky or decisions have gone against us but the important question is whether its a flukey one-off or a turning point. […]
Spam Spam Spam
March 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Technology
In the 24 hours I have had WordPress running again I have had 1200 spam comments trapped by Akismet and Spam Karma. With that sort of volume of spamming I have had to make the spam filters quite strict so there is a little more chance of getting false positives, and less chance of me […]
Body modifications and elections
March 17th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Politics
The combination of body modifications and elections dominated the front page of the Crawley Observer this week. It only took the newshounds there two years to find out about our MP getting a tatoo after her re-election, and they splashed it over the front page with a photo of the tattoo (Labour rose with the […]
Tags: Elections·Local Papers·WTF
Back again!
March 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Technology
Well everything is back up and running again. I guess I could have had it all up sooner if this was higher in my priorities. One thing I won’t do is apologise for not posting anything at all this week, or for the site being down. That always seems a bit self-important to me. (What […]
