hmm not quite sure what to make of this album at all. Two CDs full of music which needs several listenings before you can really start to form any real opinion. Like their previous albums I think you need to be in the right mood to listen to this.
Month: January 2014
Managed to get hold of, quite legitimately, of a copy of “Secrets of The Witching…
Managed to get hold of, quite legitimately, of a copy of "Secrets of The Witching Hour" by The Crimea.
This was an album that was made freely available for download from their website when they released it but only at something like 98Kbit or 128Kbit and it was a slightly modified version of the purchasable album.
The band recently split up, just after releasing their third, and last, album but you can now get SoTWH at 320Kbit directly from their website, and its the full version with with tracks in a slightly different order and with some vocal links re-introduced
The best thing is that it's still free. So if you like quirky, odd, English Alternative Rock then its probably worth checking out.
Semalt really don’t get it
I posted on Semalt’s facebook and they deleted my posts. I made another post suggesting that deleting my posts simply confirmed that they were a rogue element.
Then they tried to friend me… I have a rule on Facebook : If I don’t know you and I’ve not met you or had a drink or three with you then don’t expect me to friend you.
So then they sent me a message:
I would like to bring apology on the behalf of our company if our service caused you some troubles.
Our bots have accidently visited your site, as well as the sites of other webmasters. These bots harvest statistics for our service and cause no harm. I don’t think this can be an issue, since nobody complains on bots that belong to Google, Bing and other search engines. There are so many services on the web that are believed to mess up the webmaster’s statistics.
This shows that they have no clue.
I have no problems with Google, Bing and other search engines running over my sites as they help bring traffic to me. Also they obey robots.txt and crawl at a sensible speed and don’t just sit there hammering the home page. Also they clearly identify themselves and come from recognised blocks of IP addresses.
Semalt do NONE of these – they use random IP addresses from all over the world, they don’t obey robots.txt. They don’t clearly idenfify that they are a bot. They don’t crawl my site and they don’t access it at a sensible request rate. On top of all of that they offer me NOTHING of any use – all they do is suck bandwith and give me nothing in return.
I had added a rule to my .htaccess rule to ban them (and I’ve left it in there because I don’t trust them) – but they did accept a list of domains from me and have removed them from their rogue bot.
Semalt.com – Rogue element? Or just scum?
So Google is full of sites posting about the above company … they would seem to be trying to do some sort of SE ranking or are they just complete arses?
This is an example from one of my site logs … there is NO reason for this behaviour but their repeated use of IP addresses in various countries suggests that they’re either paying people to do this shit or they’ve paid for time on a bot-net.
Ask yourself…would you really trust a company who resort to these sort of tactics as a business model?
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Once again T-Mobile (AKA EE) show that they’re useless – they tell me each and…
Once again T-Mobile (AKA EE) show that they're useless – they tell me each and every month that I have charges outside my plan… but I don't….
Sometimes you have to wonder what sort of illegal substances the spammers are using…
Sometimes you have to wonder what sort of illegal substances the spammers are using if they think this pile of complete and utter drivel would ever be taken as anything more than junk
Boo being his usual nervous but inquisitive self
Despite all the rain we’ve managed to avoid any flooding near our house
The old farm track at the side of the estate is a small river though and there's a lot of water (and luckily only water) running out through the cemetery gates.