After much grumpiness I bring you laughter

Saturday, 29 September 2007, 11:31 | Category : Completely Random
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I realised my posts have been a bit on the grumpy side this week, so to make amends here is something funny.
Oh, one more thing: I had a thought about YouTube – could it be the modern equivalent of asking someone back to look at your etchings? Will we see young men in [...]

Sorry, but I’ve got to rant

Thursday, 27 September 2007, 16:50 | Category : Completely Random
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You have read my complaints about sploggers who scrape blog posts to fill their nasty little blogs, but there is another menace to bloggers: people who take your work, remove your byline and post it in forums or even on their own site. I have just discovered that someone has done this with an [...]

Room 101 – Captchas

Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 10:14 | Category : Completely Random
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Captchas are those little images on blog comment pages which exist to prevent automated bots posting spammy comments. If you click on the comment links on this blog you will see one – and I wish you luck trying to decipher it first time because Blogger captchas are notoriously difficult to read. However, while [...]

Picking on Auntie Beeb (again)

Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 13:04 | Category : Television, opinion
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Over at The Quacks of Life, Pete has written a piece about the news of cutbacks at the BBC in which he echoes my own thoughts about the matter. There was a time when the BBC could be relied upon to provide programming that was entertaining, but high quality. Sadly, in the last few [...]