I found this today…
Posted on December 28th, 2009 by Brian
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Sign Up… Switch Off!
Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Brian
On Saturday 28 March 2009 at 8.30pm, people, businesses and iconic buildings around the world will switch off their lights for an hour – World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour.
The WWF want a billion people around the world to sign up and switch off their lights for one hour.
If they achieve their billion people it will [...]
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Filed under: Astronomy, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Politics, Scams
Memorybits.co.uk
Posted on February 9th, 2009 by Brian
I recently ordered a couple of 2Gb compact flash cards to update TomTom gps units. memorybits.co.uk came up with a decent price so I ordered from them on Jan 6th with a promise of 4 day delivery.
The fact that I am blogging the subject should give you a clue that they didn’t deliver on time [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Scams, Techie
More bloody tax!
Posted on January 4th, 2009 by Brian
Click on the logo to visit http://www.axethebeertax.com/, they have 5 basic demands of our government:
To stop plans to increase beer tax by up to a third
To enforce existing laws – not create new ones – to deal firmly with irresponsible drinkers and premises
To end the irresponsible promotion of alcohol in supermarkets, pubs and elsewhere
To trust [...]
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Filed under: Home, Isle of Wight, Politics, Scams
Now it’s local…..
Posted on December 29th, 2008 by Brian
Driving around our Island, you can’t help but notice the number of pubs that are boarded up or at best short of customers.
Earlier in 2008 we were told that those who didn’t like smokey old bars would flock to them when smoking was banned, that appears not to have been the case and the increasing [...]
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Hardly a well baited hook?
Posted on November 24th, 2008 by Brian
I recieved this email today:
MR. FRANCIS JOHNSON
TELE:234-7031622282
FINAL NOTIFICATION
GOOD DAY,
- I AM WRITING TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR OUT STANDING PAYMENT OF $10.5 HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR PAYMENT AND WILL BE RELEASE TO YOU AS SOON AS YOU RESPOND TO THIS LETTER, KINDLY REPLY WITH YOUR NAME INFULL, TELE/FAX, CONTACT ADDRESS, YOUR AGE AND OCCUPATION, SEX, [...]
Personal Spam?
Posted on November 6th, 2008 by Brian
Votes please; should I respond or not?
This mail arrived this morning and is the first personalised one of its type I have seen:
YANG LIM & ASSOCIATES
SOLICITOR AND ADVOCATES
NO. 101, JALAN PUDU RAYA,
TAMAN DESA RAYA
MALAYSIA
TEL: +60122473440
Email: barryanglim@XXXXXX.XXX
I am Yang Lim, an attorney at law. A deceased client of mine, Mr. Andrew Curd, that shares [...]
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Filed under: Family, Funny, Genealogy, Scams, Spam
EmDrive – Propulsion for the Future?
Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Brian
Yesterday three of us were lucky enough to be invited to attend the Space: 08 event at the Barbican Centre.
The highlight of the event for me was the Masterclass conducted by Roger Shawyer the Director of SPR Ltd. After introducing himself and explaining his background in various satellite launch products, Roger went on the explain [...]
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The Curse of Spyware – SUPERAntiSpyware
Posted on May 21st, 2008 by Brian
A friend recently dropped off a PC infected with some particularly nasty spyware infections. The usual SmitFraud, WinAntiVirus and Vundo stuff but this time, I couldn’t find anything that would shift it.
Unfortunately, the cause was a couple of pieces of so called AntiVirus and AntiSpyware software which were in themselves carriers and propagators of this [...]
AntiPhormLite
Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Brian
Following a couple of earlier mentions of Phorm, it’s good to see an organised fightback against it. The following is taken directly from their website:
“AntiPhormLite is a unique application that intelligently self surfs the internet and generates natural surfing information to confuse anyone who is spying or tracking your internet activity. It is a stand [...]
