Posted by: JackP on March 26th, 2007
Other breaking news:
Joseph Alois Ratzinger believed to be Catholic
Ursus arctos horribilis found to defecate in woodland
Fewer than half the UK’s 29m adult internet users believe they are responsible for protecting personal information online, a survey suggests.
One in six of the 2,441 people surveyed felt responsibility rested with banks.
BBC News
… and until you need to pass [...]
Posted by: JackP on March 14th, 2007
I’ve been deluged by spam recently. Very little of it has got through, thanks to my spam filtering. In fact, my filters have stopped one hundred and eighty-seven spam comments from making their way onto the site in the last week alone. Taking a look through the contents of the spam, excluding the links of [...]
Read: A Spam SmörgÃ¥sbord »
Posted by: JackP on February 1st, 2007
There’s this gentleman I know who stuff keeps happening to. To be brutally honest, he generally brings it on himself. If you recall the story I told a couple of weeks back about the bloke who sent (what appeared to be) a nude picture of himself to his boss’s mobile entirely by accident, that’s him.
This [...]
Read: It could only happen to HIM. »
Posted by: JackP on December 21st, 2006
As any fule kno, if you have a blog, you’re going to get comment spam.
This basically three main flavours: spam comments which contains hyperlinks to porn sites, spam comments which contain hyperlinks to gambling sites, and spam comments which contain hyperlinks to pharmaceutical sites.
Of course, every now and again, you’ll get some non-hyperlinked spam where [...]
Read: Comment Spam »
Posted by: JackP on November 20th, 2006
Now if someone is sticking abusive messages through your front door, what should you do about it? Well, going to the police sounds like a reasonable option, doesn’t it? But what if it’s the police that are putting the abusive messages through your door in the first place?
Okay, so as abusive messages go, it’s not [...]
Posted by: JackP on October 21st, 2006
I don’t know if this happens elsewhere in the UK or elsewhere across the globe, but human nature being what it is, I certainly wouldn’t bet against it. Anyway, I got a flyer through my door today offering a “Genuine Income Opportunity”. Maybe, I ask myself, but for who?
Read: Cynicism Factor At 9, Captain… »
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