They’ve got Phorm…

You may have heard of Phorm – they’re the scumbags that, with the complicity of your ISP, plan to hijack your personal data – i.e., everything you do via your browser, including bank and other sensitive information – and use it to foist unwanted but targeted advertising upon you. A BT trial started today – [...]

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Is your blog safe?

How often do you back up your blog? I suspect, for many Web2 bloggers, the answer is never – big mistake. You should never assume your data is safe unless it’s somewhere you can actually get your grubby mitts on it in person. Online it’s massively vulnerable. Back when I wrote a magazine column, I [...]

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F1 shock-horror…

This disgraceful state of affairs just can’t be allowed to continue. Lewis Hamilton places third in the Singapore Grand Prix. Ferrari, however, were nowhere, having screwed up Massa’s pit-stop, and seen Raikkonen crash out and, you know, nobody at Ferrari/FIA Inc., has found any way at all to penalise McLaren and/or Hamilton for those events. [...]

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Human ice cream…

Peta, the animals rights group, has asked Ben & Jerry’s to use human breast milk instead of cow’s milk. “If Ben & Jerry’s replaced the cow’s milk in its ice-cream with breast milk, your customers – and cows – would reap the benefits,” wrote Peta’s Tracy Reiman. And not too long ago, we had Heather [...]

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Hollywood cancer…

With Paul Newman yet another Hollywood star succumbs to cancer – the death rate from cancers of all forms in the movie community, if my memory is reliable, is staggering – so I Googled it, using various search parameters, thinking there must have been research into the phenomenon, but answers came there none. (If I’ve [...]

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Feeling the pinch…

Like most people on low, fixed, incomes – like benefits – I’m feeling the pinch right now, with the price of pretty much everything moving remorselessly upwards. I’d love to shop at discount stores like my local Aldi, but it’s such a soul-destroying experience I avoid the place when I can. Every time I go [...]

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Clenil Modulite Problems…

Note, December 2 2008 – see also this page, which is more important. ——————————————————————————– For those of you who don’t have COPD, this may seem a bit gross, as it discusses sputum quality in COPD. I mentioned, previously, that I thought that Clenil Modulite increased sputum production, and I’m now certain it does. This is [...]

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Sainsbury’s rip-off…

Want to get your shopping delivered by Sainsbury’s? Are you, like me, a disabled singleton who doesn’t need to spend a hell of a lot? Ha! You’re screwed. Now carless (and my usual lift having gone off on holiday), I thought getting my shopping delivered wouldn’t cost much more than the inconvenience of getting a [...]

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Huntin, shootin, and Palin…

Apparently, in a San Francisco wine bar, sales of a rather decent Chilean Syrah have plummeted since the Republican conference. Why? It’s called Palin. Isn’t that just pathetic? On a more serious note, you may well find this article interesting in a gruesome sort of way. Reading the (interminable), comments provides an insight into how [...]

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Sprouting Seeds (Part 2)…

Well, as I mentioned last time, I’ve bought a small sprouter for, er, sprouts, and now I’ve got a much larger propagator for growing micro greens. It’s the Sankey Growarm 300. Originally I’d planned to pay £29.99 for one (plus £7 p&p), but with the month-end bills looming, meaning cash is short, I searched Google [...]

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