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Having tried out various blogging platforms, I am now posting all entries to my internal blog. But as it's still better for the odd thing, I'm posting some of the fun and interesting bits to theo @ spaces too.
Below are the latest entries.
The International Routing System scam
July 26, 2010
I've just had a call from a charming Indian gentlemen telling me he was from the International Routing System and that my computer was generating a lot of traffic which was disrupting the "International Routing Systems".
Apparently he had my phone number because my IP address was creating all this traffic and so he wanted to show me how to cleanup my machine. I thought it could be fun to find out how he was going to try to scam me, so let him continue...
- Me: "So what's my IP address?"
- IG: "I don't have that in front of me at the moment"
- Me: "riigggt... so what would you like me to do to stop all this traffic blocking up the International Routings Systems?"
- IG: "Please press the flag key and R on your keyboard"
- Me: "OK"
- IG: "type the letters 'i', 'n', 'f' - it stands for 'infection'"
- Me: "OK, I've done that"
- IG: "Now click OK"
- Me: "Uh huh"
- IG: "What do you see?"
- Me: "A list of all the drivers installed on my computer"
- IG: "You're wasting my time and your time, now bugger off"... beeeeeeeeeeeep
Unfortunately caller ID only showed he was calling from an "International" number so I couldn't call him back to find out more about his wonderful International Routing System or what other things he was going to get me to do to my computer.
The Secret Diary of Michael Schumacher... returns!
January 21, 2010
With the 2010 return of The Secret Diary of Michael Schumacher on Planet-F1, I've just added another year's worth of old entries back onto the interweb for your reading pleasure.
Read all his entries from 2002 to 2004, plus links to the latest entries in The Secret Diary of Michael Schumacher.
Manual tagging on Facebook
January 2, 2010
Tagging of people in the text of status updates has been available on Facebook for a while now, but it still isn't available everywhere, such as comments and photo descriptions.
Luckily if you really want to tag someone in text in some of these other places (I've only made it work in photo descriptions so far) then you can do so. In addition you can manually tag people within status updates giving them whatever name you want.
All you have to do is include the following format in your text and Facebook will automatically display tag links:
The "Our" Domain Set
December 8, 2009
It has to be said that over the years I have purchased quite a few domain names, but there was one that I have wanted for a while to add to the set of OurCarnival.co.uk, OurChurch.co.uk and OurPanto.co.uk - that being OurVillage.co.uk.
And yesterday I managed to buy it off the current owner, so finally the Eaton Bray website is available via www.ourvillage.co.uk.
And if you hadn't heard yet, the Christmas Puzzle is now available to download!
