Masthead
One of my photos

Entries Tagged as 'Wikis'

Unreliable reporting

July 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life

The Wikipedia page on Torchwood, Children of Earth, summarises Day Five thus: It is revealed that the 456 abuses the chemicals in children as a type of drug and that the whole operation is basically drug trade. While the government prepares the children, Frobisher places Jack into custody while Gwen and Rhys are escorted back […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·

Well I never

July 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Well I never · Life

Uncyclopedia is supposed to be unreliable, so when it said that something was really true, I took it with a pinch of salt and double-checked on Wikipedia.  Knowing how Wikipedia is fallible I cross-checked with a few newspaper sources before coming to the conclusion that it was really true but… Abu Hamza’s real name is […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·

Rock The Casbah

November 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Rock The Casbah · Music

From Wikipedia’s entry on Punk Rock: Punk rock (often referred to simply as punk) is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, Bahrain, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ··

Fallibility of the Internet

August 10th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Life

Yesterday I came across what looked like a brilliant bit of trivia. The film Personal Services was on TV and I wanted to check up something about it on IMDb. In the trivia section it said: Upon theatrical release, the film was banned in Ireland. Only four films have been banned in Ireland, and three […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ··

Boring Conservapedia

April 10th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Technology

I see that Conservapedia has had some work done to it lately. As a consequence it is now less embarrassing for the neo-cons who run it, and less hilarious for the rest of us. Although still pitiful by Wikipedia standards the article on France is at least properly formatted now, longer than a couple of […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·

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 […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ··

The cult of Karl

December 2nd, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology

I am a late arrival in this whole podcast thing. The first one I ever listened to was one of the Spizz podcasts last month – I won’t link to it right now; for some reason all his sites seem to be down at the moment. I had seen all the publicity about the Ricky […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ······

Fastway failure fame?

May 12th, 2006 · Comments Off on Fastway failure fame? · Technology

Today there was a visitor to this site who arrived from New Zealand by searching Google for fastway failure! Now I know that the Fastway bus service in Crawley has its critics, leading to the local nickname of ‘Farceway’ but I thought that was a purely local phenomenon. Or maybe they were just looking for […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·····