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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 ... Read more & comment
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.... Read more & comment
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 descript... Read more & comment
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 fin... Read more & comment
Christmas Puzzle 2009 - Time, gentlemen, please
December 8, 2009
This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download. This, the 19th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is no... Read more & comment
COMException "Class not registered" on 64-bit Windows
October 5, 2009
Having finally got myself running live on Windows 7, this morning it was time to fix the one problem remaining - Visual Studio 2008 throwing the COMException "Class not registered" (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG) when trying to call InitializeComponent on a form which has an ActiveX control on it: System.R... Read more & comment
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