BREXIT Woes. Will it ever end? How will it end?
I mean, every one of you that voted leave, considered this point at the start of this Brexit...
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Strong not silent – No Health without mental health
‘ I AM STANDING UP FOR MEN SPEAKING OUT’ Every week, 84 men in the UK take their own lives. The majority will have suffered in silence or tried to self-medicate themselves…and failed. As men our ‘strong and silent’...
Read More‘And what a plan’ – D-Day June 6 1944
“And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.” Churchill’s speech on D-Day (Hansard, 6 June 1944, cols 1209-1210). June 6th 1944 – The...
Read MoreWe Will Remember Them
For the Fallen Robert Laurence Binyon...
Read MoreIn or Out ? EU or not EU?
To be honest, initially I started off as an “in” but that was purely based upon “it’s what I know”. I then realised I had better do some research since whilst it may not affect me so much, it will...
Read MoreFeed2JS Closed
Many thanks to Alan Levine for creating Feed2JS many moons ago, but I’ve decided to remove access to the Feed2JS service installed on the yaps4u.net domain. I’ve contacted those users who had let me know they were...
Read MoreCorporation Tax – Carr / Barlow Saga
Early on today, an image popped up on my Facebook timeline and whoosh, out came my goat. Both of those incidents really got my goat up back then and still do. Guy Martin has “Brian the Monkey”, me, I have...
Read MoreI’m back !!
I’ve finally gotten around to updating the website and hopefully, will find some time to post a bit more regular than I have been able to previously.Things have been a bit difficult over the past few years, but I am...
Read MoreThe passing of a true genius and a gentleman
This morning I learnt the sad news that Len Sassaman sadly passed away having taken his own life in an apparent suicide at his home in Leuven, Belgium. Len was a major advocate for privacy and a great influence on some of my...
Read MoreYet more Pipex Woes
Yet another example of bad customer service from Pipex. Pipex, a once great UK ISP, now ruined by the ineptitude of Tiscali and TalkTalk. A great lesson on how to take a great company and run them into the ground.
Read MorePipex/Tiscali Support Is a Joke
Back around June 2009, Tiscali took over the running of my old Pipex network. And whereas before I was averaging around 2400Kbps, it all suddenly went pear shaped and dropped to less than 600Kbps for a few days. It did recover...
Read MoreWarm As Toast
Finally had the chimney swept after the hammering it took last year. Couldn’t book the chimney sweep until Friday last week, by which time all the snow had gone. But saying that, the warmest it reached over the weekend was...
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