“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 MoreFor the Fallen Robert Laurence Binyon...
Read MoreTo 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 MoreMany 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 MoreEarly 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’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 MoreThis 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 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 MoreBack 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 MoreFinally 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...
Read MoreDear Sirs, I would very much like to show my concern over the current extradition laws, especially with respect to the current state of affairs with the US. Current legislation appears to give a very lopsided difference between...
Read MoreI just received a weird telephone call from someone claiming to be from the National Television Control centre.He stated by saying “Good day, I’m calling from the National Television Control Centre and we have had reports of bad reception in your area. Can you confirm if your reception is working?”.
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