Author Archives: Steve

Moving to HTTPS

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Steve

Well I’ve moved the blogs over to https… it was a bit of a pain and I was really starting to bash my head against the wall with Lets Encrypt’s utilities. But then I stopped trying to be clever and … Continue reading →

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Another stupid set of spam emails

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Steve

Yet more stupid spam arrived in my inbox today. Lets just take two examples from the small tsunami that arrived. What spammers forget is that sending TWO emails from different people to the SAME address with similar messages in it … Continue reading →

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Post Exporting and Importing

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Steve

I’m planning on being on holiday later in the year (see  Liverpool in the Autumn for more details ) and I’m planning on doing some blogging whilst we’re underway. So I want to be able to write my posts on … Continue reading →

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Stupid pages that have paid Facebook to be forced into my Page feed

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Steve

The mobile browser news feed for Facebook includes a section featuring “sponsored” pages which they think you might want to like. You can’t hide this section but their selection criteria is totally crap..   So lets start with this – … Continue reading →

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The scum at Semalt are at it again

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Steve

I got a lot of hits with a referrer of keywords-monitoring-your-success . com Lots of different IP addresses – all in Brazil… And guess what : yes its the scum at Semalt up to their old tricks again. Why can’t … Continue reading →

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Spamming Fuckwits

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Steve

It’s pretty obvious that spammers (i.e. the people controlling the compromised machines that are doing the work) are a bunch of stupid fuckwits… This site gets between 10 and 20 spam comments a day… None of them have appeared because … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Steve

The weather was good with temperatures in the low 50’s °F – its often much colder at this time of year. There were going to be 13 of us for Thanksgiving Dinner and as we wanted enough left overs to … Continue reading →

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Toshiba Dual Boot recovery

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Steve

A few notes on how to restore dual boot after a Toshiba BIOS update. Continue reading →

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Coming to America

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Steve

We’ve got a pretty good routine working for flying to America. It starts with driving down to Heathrow the night before the flight and staying in a hotel close to the airport – usually the Park Inn as it does … Continue reading →

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Greek University BotNet

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Steve

The following emails arrived in exactly the order they are shown here……  something tells me the University has a bit of a botnet going on.  

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