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 [...]
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Horses and stable doors
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I’ve made millions on eBay
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.
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I’m an Open Source developer!
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 [...]
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Really really really back now
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 - [...]
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Spam, spam, spam, spam…..
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 [...]
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Sleeeeep!
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 [...]
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