This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
Just spotted this quote on the BBC site: “Public money is limited and it is the government’s responsibility to ensure it is not unduly diverted from supporting the delivery of frontline services” Baroness Ashton Information Rights Minister. This is to do with suggested changes to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act which is our only [...]
Today the BBC is reporting that MPs will be eligible for £10,000 each which they can spend to develop websites to boost “public understanding” of parliament – Full report. Well listen up guys; we already do understand it and we’re not that impressed! Search UK Google for “How parliament works” and you get about 16,200 [...]
Looks like the IOW festival will be better than ever for oldies like me. The Rolling Stones have signed up as the headline act for Sunday night. Full details here and the main Festival site is here. Shame it’s sold out really!
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Email spam reaching my Inbox is still dropping nicely – so far today it’s only reached the dizzy heights of 6! If only I could say the same of WordPress comment spam. That’s the stuff being caught by Akismet, over there on the right – in the last couple of days I’ve seen a dramatic [...]
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As you may know from earlier posts, I have been keeping tabs on spam email recently. The chart below is made from the data I have collected so far. The lines on the chart show the daily intake (blue line) and the rolling average (green). As you can no doubt see, after a period of [...]
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Why anyone would use an inkjet printer for anything other than the odd colour print is beyond me as, these days, a laser: Is almost as cheap to buy, particularly for B&W Is much cheaper to run Is usually quieter Is much faster Will last longer Uses about the same desk space Is better made [...]
It’s taken me a long time and a lot of install/uninstalls to find a decent RSS newsreader. I think I have now settled on one, it’s called Snarfer, it’s free, fast, doesn’t appear to crash and, in addition to all the normal RSS things, it’s got one particularly neat feature – the ability to make [...]
There’s been quite a fuss about Joost recently. What is it? Well this is taken from the website: What is Joost™? Joost™ is a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and TV worlds. We’re in the process of making [...]
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I have added an experimental page which I am using to track email spam received using a Google Spreadsheet. The sheet shows only the spam emails which have managed to get through to my desktop despite fairly aggressive filters/traps at various stages en-route. There seems to be a server problem at their end at the [...]
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