I don’t know why it took me so long to get round to it, but I finally decided to install Firefox today. I couldn’t believe how quickly it installed and how fast it runs. All the little things which were behaving strangely in IE6 now behave properly, and I get the tabs which I particularly […]
Entries from April 25th, 2006
Lucky Arsenal or what!
April 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
Well done to the Arsenal for getting through to the Champions League final (and it was good to see they actually had an English player on the pitch this time) but what a rotten game it was, except for the excitement of the last five minutes with the penalty save followed closely by the great […]
Tags: Football
Spam, spam, spam
April 25th, 2006 · Comments Off on Spam, spam, spam · Technology
What is going on? I go away for a couple of hours to install Firefox and watch the Arsenal game and come back to find 23 spam comments caught by Akismet and another 13 which slipped through to be moderated. I suppose its good that WordPress was suspicious enough to flag them for moderation, but […]
Have you voted yet?
April 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Politics
Not in the local elections, but in the Sky News poll on whether the BNP have a place in British politics. At the moment 57% say they have.
Akismet fallible. Shock horror
April 25th, 2006 · Comments Off on Akismet fallible. Shock horror · Technology
Half a dozen spam comments slipped through the net last night… up to now Akismet has faithfully trapped everything. I do hope this is just a blip and not a trend.
Thanks Marlon, Pards, and the rest
April 25th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Life
Being the only Hammers fan in the building, it was great to come into work on a Monday morning and not have everyone taking the piss, but congratulating me for a change – as if I somehow did more than sit on the sofa watching Sky Sports for 90 minutes, then sit on the edge […]
Dirty Tricks – part two
April 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
The second dirty trick I heard about is one which will not be in the newspapers and which I should probably not talk about. It makes me angry, and I am always prone to respond a bit, shall we say, robustly when I am angry. Also it concerns a document which I have not actually […]
Tags: Broadfield·Elections·Racism·Scandals·Tories·Travellers
More about the Euston Manifesto
April 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Politics
Despite supporting the Euston Manifesto, I already wrote about how I will be more interested in what, if anything, it can generate rather than the thing itself. Having said that, I do have a few quibbles with the content, but not enough to prevent me signing up for it.
Tags: Books·Euston Manifesto
A fellow spotter?
April 25th, 2006 · Comments Off on A fellow spotter? · Life
Its good to see that I am not the only person taking pictures like this! (for example)
Tags: Links·Photos·Shopping Trolleys
Dirty tricks – part one
April 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
here are two things going on at the moment which leave a nasty taste in the mouth – quite apart from the outbreaks of violence when the BNP launched their campaign on Sunday. First of all there is one story which will be in all the papers. It is already in the Argus today (and […]
Tags: Elections·Newspapers·Scandals
