Category — General nonsense

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Hello friend,

My name is Catherine Williams.

Let this HEALTHY CHOCOLATE be a perfect Christmas Gift
for yourself, your family, your loveones (sic) and your friends!.
Just like you, I was shock (sic), at first, but YES it’s true,
NOT ALL chocolates are created equal.
Please visit this very important link below:

[three ws][dot]cathwilliams.co.cc/

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This site is getting very slow. This is nothing to do with the provider, but all to do with me. So far MT has proven pretty good for my current modest usage of it, in particular it allows much better customisation of the PHP/Apache interface, so you can actually use a php.ini or .htaccess file with most of the options. SSH access is great and works very well, only pity is I could not find a way to bulk FTP my old site across using the default MT tools.

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As usual some of the best things out there are found when looking for something completely different.

Apparently there is a project for doing . The original was with cars, eg the famous Citroen escapade.

One of the guys is doing this as part of a round the world on a … penny farthing …

Now one his site he has this link to a guy who did one … a hundred and twenty years ago… He came to China. Go to his page to find out how to read the book. Brilliant, really fun and well written. FanKwae we are indeed!

so things will be weird for a while…

its ok lah now..

Looking for a recipe for apple pie came across this one which I may well be doing tomorrow

Via this page then wandered over to this lovely blog with lots of sewing stuff recently inherited

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Just finished installing the Spamato extension on my Thunderbird email client. Very good. I recommend anyone who is trying to manage their incoming spam to check it out. Quite quick it went through the 1255 emails in my inbox in about half an hour, very good considering how bad my current Internet connection is.

One day later, it seems that the Keyscrambler addon may be screwing up the WP editor ? This is where they are. I currently cannot add any links in the graphical editor or else Firefox craps out when saving the doc. This has already been typed six times . Typed in the linx by hand in the HTLM source editor.

Back to Thunderbird. Today it wiped the smile off the faces of all my incoming spam and stuffed them into a Spamato folder. Magic. It added some false +itives I will chase them up in the web console. Very impressed. Not a single real spam got through this time. check them out if you hate spam!

I reopened the blog for comments two days ago – thinking well maybe someone who comes here has something to say. Nope. Only comments so far are spam. This means the chances are that the only visitors are spam artists and robots? Och well..

I have been forced to close this blog for people to register directly. Although this website is not exactly very visited, and probably, quite rightly so, it is already getting spam probes.

If you want to register, send me an email. pat[underscore]no[underscore]spam[at]dean[dot]be so I can create an account for you. Sorry for the hassle.

This is possibly one of the reasons why you could want to do science and physics again. No need for boring simulations in the classroom that involve nasty and antiquated looking bits of equipment that you cannot touch (or if you do will burn you or worse), here is a drawing board that allows you to imagine physics and test how it happens to work! It is complete cartoon style (à quand une version Gaston Lagaffe une fois? ) and looks like it could cause a small revolution in the classroom. Very cool. Something for my son to do when he grows up

Thanks to the guys at Counterspy for sending this one out! (and if you need some advice on getting rid of spyware, Counterspy is pretty OK)

Interesting piece of reading in their occasional newsletter. I have recently joined them, although they have been around a long time and I used to be with them before as well, when I was dealing a lot with MS Exhange 5 and 5.5 in what feels now like a previous existence

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But that's what the Internet has done, although there's no question that the money and exposure of television set the table. Forget all the angst about "Web 2.0" -- mass communication changed fifty years ago, when a lot of newspapers switched to offset printing. Bigger newspapers had an expensive piece of equipment on which they wanted a return on investment (a press), and smaller newspapers couldn't justify the expense of equipment that ran for only a few hours a week -- and all of a sudden, anyone with a carbon ribbon typewriter and a camera could start his own paper.

The Internet has taken it one step further. Anyone can have a website, anyone can set up a blog, and anyone can have his say. What we fear, though, is that if everyone is talking, it means that no one is listening. Freedom of speech -- the right to say what you want about your political beliefs, or about your religious beliefs -- is not the same as the right to be heard, and it certainly doesn't mean that you have anything valuable to say. "Everybody's talkin' at me," Fred Neil wrote, "I don't hear a word they're saying."
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From Ericpete check out his info on experts-exchange. Useful site if you are willing to spend time to help out other people with their IT problems and get some kudos in the process

This post ties up a bit with my other post about blogs and the spoken word. A Blog is a written form of spoken words. Hence no one is listening as we are all too busy writing our own junk, and not thinking about what we are writing. Does it matter, is it of any use? Just like this post really… 

Back to sleep the noo…