Yesterday I got a call from my credit card company saying that they had seen some unusual activity on my card. It seems that some has been buying a lot of 3 phone credit with my card. They also bought a National Express coach ticket and had a bit of a field day in Argos.… Continue reading Credit Card Theft
Author: Dave Cross
Configuring Spamassassin
I moved my email handling to a new server a month or so ago and since them I’ve noticed a larger than usual amount of spam getting into my inbox rather than being caught by Spamassassin. Today I decided that enough was enough and that I’d investigate further. My first theory was that in moving… Continue reading Configuring Spamassassin
Agents Can’t Read
Not that anyone is going to be surprised by this, but it seems that a number of recruitment agents have problems with basic reading skills. This morning I got three emails from agents containing details of potential jobs. In two of the three cases they were actually quite good matches for my skills. But, of… Continue reading Agents Can’t Read
Blogging the Bombs
It’s a couple of days on, so let’s step back and take a look at what happened on Thursday. I’m still trying to articulate exactly how I feel about it all so let’s leave that for another post and instead look at more practical matters. Basically, it seems to me that Thursday 7th July 2005… Continue reading Blogging the Bombs
Firefox Tip
A little Firefox tip that I just discovered. It makes it far easier to use web search interfaces. Let’s take for example the TV programme search box on the Radio Times web site. It’s nn the left hand side of the page – a little text box labelled “search tv”. Now the usual way to… Continue reading Firefox Tip
Quiet Day
So it seems that after the excitement of the last couple of days, London has decided that it deserves a bit of a lie down and has taken the day off. I estimate that the tubes had about a third of the normal numbers of people on them. I had the best journey in that… Continue reading Quiet Day
No Comment Needed
George W Bush in October 2004 We are fighting these terrorists with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond so we do not have to face them in the streets of our own cities.
Embarassing Income
It’s a bit embarassing, but I seem to be profiting from today’s terrorist attacks. People are googling for bbc radio streams and coming across my page. Normally I get up to 400 hits a day on that page. Today I’ve already had 4,000. And people are clicking on the Google Adsense links. Normally I make… Continue reading Embarassing Income
Explosions
Like pretty much everyone in London, I had a spectacularly bad journey into work today. On the way in I was composing the blog entry I was going to make about the incompetance of London Underground. I was going to say something terribly witty and cutting about how ironic it was that the London transport… Continue reading Explosions
Olympic Gloating
Ok, so London will be hosting the Olympics. That’s bad enough. But what’s worse is having to put up with the terrible gloating and jingoism that it’s already bringing out in people. In the tube station at White City (and, I assume, elsewhere) London Transport had printed posters thanking all of their customers for their… Continue reading Olympic Gloating