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!
OK so I’m a few days late… take it or leave it Not much to report really, I just thought I’d better get a new post in and bring things up to date a little. No matter how I try I can’t seem to get my office/workspace clear of a seemingly ever growing pile of [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Home, Scams, Software, Techie
Saw a fox running across the road the other night and it reminded me of a conversation with my Swindon neighbour Dave (both perfectly sober btw). The gist was that we should start a company called Fox in a Box which would advertise their humane fox catching service. It went something like this; flood an [...]
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Filed under: Funny, Home, Isle of Wight, Mates, Scams
From WordPress: Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here, is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.” I [...]
Some years ago I bought a couple of JVC car stereos during a visit to Tottenham Court Road. These were pretty remarkable at the time as they included MP3 CD players as well as the normal AM/FM radio facilities and, of course, the ability to play normal CDs. Both sets are still working well but [...]
Looking back on this blog a recurring theme has been email spam and my attempts to clear my inbox of this plague. This blog uses built in WordPress tools to ensure that I don’t see any spam posted in the comments but keeping control of my mail client’s filters isn’t quite so easy – I [...]
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Filed under: Isle of Wight, Scams, Software, Spam, Techie
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 [...]
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Filed under: Astronomy, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Politics, Scams
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 [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Scams, Techie
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 [...]
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Filed under: Home, Isle of Wight, Politics, Scams
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 [...]
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