Archive for July, 2011
I’m Back.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Good Things Do Still Happen
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breivik, china, facebook, funny, heartwarming, norway, oslo, utoya, winehouse on July 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There’s been a lot of bad news over the past few days. Norway. Winehouse. China. Dozy forklift drivers. And, it’s fair to say, it’s got us all down a bit. So here are some of the items of good news you might have missed over the past few days. – 1. Facebook Friends Save a [...]
Cutting the Cord
Posted in Uncategorized on July 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
From midnight tonight, until midnight on Friday 29th July, I will be cutting myself off from the World Wide Web. No Twitter. No Facebook. No Internet. Just emails – and, even then, only as they get pushed through to my BlackBerry. Why have I kept emails? In case the Queen, or Barack Obama, or a [...]
‘I am ready to teleport’ – The Last Words of a Condemned Man
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged criminal, death row, execution, last words, stroman, texas, victim on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Not many people will get the chance to choose their last words; especially those who have their lives cut short during a serious crime. But – in a bizarre take on justice – it is their murderers who are given the liberty of giving some thought to their final words before they are executed for [...]
LulzSec and Anonymous Cannot be Ignored
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anonymous, brooks, cyber terrorism, hacking, lulzsec, murdoch, the sun on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So, it seems LulzSec are back. After announcing at the end of June that they were disbanding, this band of self-confessed group of “entertainment and security experts” regrouped and hacked the Sun’s website on Monday evening. First, they redirected the website to a mirror page with a story declaring that Rupert Murdoch had been found [...]
A Mini Public Private Pep Talk
Posted in Uncategorized on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Come on, Wakeling, keep persevering. You’re getting there. Everyone who made a success out of writing struggled at some point. Break through that brick wall and get your foot in the door.
The Day My Son’s Innocence Died
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dora, poo, spongebob, toilet, videos, youtube on July 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
So here’s the story. A couple of our friends have just arrived for a meal, and Isaac’s clawing at my thigh to watch Rolf Harris videos on YouTube. Torn between answering the door and seeing to my son, I hastily bring up ‘I’ve Lost My Mummy’, turn down the volume, and let them in. We settle [...]
Spam isn’t all junk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book, books, junk, junk email, novels, spam, spam email, writing on July 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Somewhere, at some point in the history of time, some vagabonds got hold of my email address and started spamming me. Their emails follow the same format: rather dubious ‘Sender’ names, followed by long subject titles without spaces between words. Something like this (ignore the top one): Turns out, this type of spam can be [...]
If you won £161m on the Lottery…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged lottery, money on July 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
…would you go public? If so, why? And if not, why not? If you won a lesser figure – say £100k or £2m – would your answer be different?
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