Looking at the visitor logs I saw that there were two searches from totally different ISPs in America within a few hours of each other today – “antonioni movie where house explodes steal airplane” and “zabriskie point exploding house”. Zabriskie Point is indeed the Antonioni movie where a student steals an airplane and a Frank […]
Entries from November 14th, 2006
What I learned today
November 14th, 2006 · Comments Off on What I learned today · Life
Two things: 1. There is an ‘Official Encyclopedia of the Cornish Pasty’ But this story does not say whether there are any unofficial ones. 2. Hong Kong island is now half as close to Kowloon as it used to be. A result of all the land reclamation for building, as featured in this morning’s paper. […]
Tags: WILT
Clouds
November 14th, 2006 · Comments Off on Clouds · Life
(Trying to re-create the missing posts with the same titles so that links from B4L work OK… good job I didn’t write anything long, profound or complicated today: just the usual cobblers.) This morning at the station there was a wonderful combination of low clouds and high winds so the clouds were absolutely racing across […]
Tags: Clouds
Just Desserts
November 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Technology
This is probably old hat now, but I only saw it today and it made me laugh. It is always good to see queue-jumpers getting their come-uppance! Watch out for the 4×4 – its the best bit. We have one of these rising bollards at Broadfield stadium as part of the Fastway system. If I […]
Tags: Broadfield·Buses·Fastway·Traffic
What’s going on?
November 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Technology
At about 8pm or thereabouts I lost connection to this server. A few minutes ago it all came back again, but I find that 3 posts I wrote this evening have disappeared. I can only assume the server crashed and there was some sort of restore from backup. If that is the case then they […]
The plot thickens
November 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on The plot thickens · Technology
Here is the timeline: Friday: someone tells me about one of our newest borough councillors having an entry on Wikipedia. Saturday: I mention it on this site. Sunday: Its all gone. The entry has vanished and the username which created it has gone too. So no trace remains, proving that Wikipedia does, indeed, heal itself. […]
Spam Loophole
November 12th, 2006 · Comments Off on Spam Loophole · Technology
Over the last few days I have had three bits of spam get past the filters and the moderation via an unanticipated back door – trackbacks. So far it is just one source – a Flickr account which is now defunct and I hope it will prove to be too much trouble for others to […]
Huge hole
November 11th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life
I am still in shock. The topic of Titan, the newly-discovered deepest cave in Britain, cropped up on Have I Got News For You but at no point did they mention the single most brilliant fact about it – the original name of it, as revealed in a Guardian article thus: After more than five […]
The Usual Suspects
November 11th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
Whenever I see news stories about cuddly-Cameron and how the Tories are now totally different from the old nasty party which persuaded many of us to join the Labour party and whenever I see yet another apology from call-me-Dave intended to make today’s Tory party appear to be a different one to the one which […]
Vanity publishing?
November 11th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Politics
I am extraordinarily grateful to a local Labour colleague for tipping me off about this entry in Wikipedia for one of our local Tories. It is amusing and fascinating – both for its content and for the fact that it exists at all. It is an entry for one of our local borough councillors, Adam […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Elections·Internet·Links·Scandals·Tories
