Author Archives: Steve

Gifted Psychic? Stupid Spammer more like

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Steve

Come on Spammers – do you really think shit like this gets through? Surely a “Gifted Psychic” would have known this would get flagged up as spam.

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The Kitchen and Garden Top 10

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Steve

Last night a tea tray saved my life View from a fridge Little Red Courgette Hello, I must be mowing Rissole down the wind Feel the weed in me I’m never digging up Sweet Peas are made of this Peat … Continue reading →

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You Wensum, you losesum

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Steve

Norwich might not sound like an obvious destination for a weekend away from Cheltenham as it’s not the easiest place to get to but it is a trip worth doing if you like Real Ale ( or “Craft” beers for … Continue reading →

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Are Spammers getting even thicker?

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Steve

Or are they simply paying the people who spam such shit money that they can’t even run a script properly? Look at this pile of crap that I found as a blocked comment today : That’s only about 1/5th of … Continue reading →

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Merging Sites

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Steve

I looked at what was over on canalplan blogs and decided that actually pulling the couple of live blogs over to here and closing down that site was the best thing to do. So I exported and imported the posts … Continue reading →

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What happened to January?

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Steve

Seriously? Where did it go? One minute it was the start of January and the next it’s suddenly February and I’ve not posted anything anywhere. I suppose the only positive thing I can say is that actually I did do … Continue reading →

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2015

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Steve

So it’s 2015 and I thought that maybe I should start blogging properly. I’d already got my blog over on canalplan blogs but I got to thinking that maybe I should separate the two and make a blog site that … Continue reading →

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Totally lost for words

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Steve

I use Akismet on this site to trap spam. But even if I didn’t and I just relied on manually approving comments what sort of stupid idiot pays people to post rubbish like the following: Obviously its junk and would … Continue reading →

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The stupidity of spammers

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Steve

I’ve been using spambucket as a junk email address for quite some time – this is first time someone has ever actually sent email to it. Any email that comes to this address is automatically flagged as spam and reported … Continue reading →

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Capita still allowing hacking from their network

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Steve

So several days after reporting to Capita that they had a compromised machine on their network what do I see but the same IP address come back and start doing exactly the same thing. A search on the internet shows … Continue reading →

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