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Somebody turn the tap off!
It all got a bit damp round here today. One minute I’m thinking it’s raining a bit harder than usual and the next I’m on the phone to the Council screaming for sand bags.
There was of course not a cat in Hell’s chance of getting any as the water further up the road, in both directions, was much deeper and the need therefore was greater.
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National Homeworking Day
Today is National Homeworking Day. How interesting. I’m a homeworker. I didn’t know.
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Ask Auntie Jaybee
There are many times when you’d dearly love to send an acerbic response to spammers but you just know you’d end up regretting it when he, for it is usually a he, discovers he has a valid mark. There are moves afoot to stop these people dead in their tracks, see my post on Spamming the Spammers, which probably means that I’m about to lose a really good source of posts.
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Birthday Meme
Strange word isn’t it. Apparently it’s pronounced Meem in the UK, Mem in the US but I prefer a different pronunciation as in this particular case, it’s all about Me Me.
What is a Meme? Well it’s kind of a chain letter thing but with blogging posts. One person does it, somebody else copies it and it works its way round the blogoshpere. Anyway, this one’s been doing the rounds as evidenced on Stephen Lang’s blog. The idea is you look up your birthday on Wikipedia and post 3 events, 2 births, 1 death and 1 holiday that happened on the same day.
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Squirm Time
Have you ever had one of those days when you just know if you had a brain you’d be dangerous? Yes? Well I’ve just had the absolute day of days.
It began with an email I received. I was busy on the phone and trying to do two things at once as usual and completely mis-read the sender. Assuming it was from a friend in Scotland I duly replied in my normal fashion.
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Spamming the spammers
Ages ago I signed up for an interesting initiative called Project Honeypot. The idea was that you took a script which contained links to a page full of emails donated by kind hearted people who weren’t using the accounts. You placed this code in your site and left a link lying around so the spambots would find it and grab the email addresses. Honeypot then track them down and squidgyfy them.
This appealed to my sense of justice so I added them to all my sites, and my client sites, and got great satisfaction checking my stats on the Honeypot site. I’ve personally helped catch over 50 harvesters. OOOOOOOH the satisfaction.
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