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Humans are basically lazy.
This is my expert opinion. I know, because I am one - a lazy human. After helping yet another friend recover from a database meltdown - with no backups - I’m reminded of this fact.
Even though he’d tweaked and prodded his (rather fine) site, and crafted some classic posts - he hadn’t [...]

Or not.
To be honest I didn’t expect that anyone would bid, but shantia911 has, and she won.
Well done shantia911. Hopefully we’ll be hearing from her soon.

It’s official!
In moving my blog from Blogger to Wordpress I took advantage of a little script included with wordpress to transfer everything over easily. I used a modified version that kept the comments (it’s not often I get ‘em!). I had a bit of a problem with it, and on reading the comments on the [...]

Okay, this is definitely, positively, absolutely the last downtime and change of blog system for a while.
I’ve finally given in to persistent little comments by Angel and moved everything to wordpress. It’s also now hosted on my ‘old faithful’ host (http://www.supanames.com), so there shouldn’t be any downtime. Not only that, it has two addresses - [...]

Grrr.
Dratted spammers. I foolishly left the “image verification” off comments on my blog, which let a whole load of spammers attack that last post.
I’ve removed the comments, although the link to the alternative therapies was very useful (not).
The cyber-pest that annoys me almost as much as malware (viruses spyware et al) is spam. Unsolicited adverts [...]

Tired.
Can’t think.
Can’t type.
Can only picture pillows.
Yes, that’s right, it’s coming up to the end of the school holidays, so I have to go back to getting up early. That’s all well and good, but it’s sheer hell doing the switch from being up at 3 am on a regular basis, to getting up at 7.30 [...]