The Information Superhighwayman

I am small and I don’t eat much…

Browsing Posts published in May, 2008

Why I can’t spell.

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For various reasons, I am in a reflective mood and I finally have a few weeks in which to relax. This creates its own problems in that when I have time to relax, I have time to think and when I have time to think, that’s usually not a good thing. As a means of [...]

Here’s an interesting new scam I had never heard of before. The scammer breaks into a hotmail, gmail or other free-email account and then sends the following email out to everybody in their contact list: Hi I am in a hurry writing this mail. I had a trip to Nigeria visiting the tinapa opening ceremony. [...]

Antisocial Security

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A while ago I pondered starting a weblog devoted to security. I occasionally feel the need to write something about this subject and I was worried that my one loyal reader would probably get bored stiff if I wrote too much in amongst my generally pointless rants. My problem is that I know more about [...]

The inglorious 12th.

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The pheasant situation is starting to become silly. For those of you lucky enough not to have heard me rant in person; we seem to have a whole colony of pheasants living in the garden. I have nothing against pheasants when they are timid little things that fly away when you approach them – In [...]

I am not writing very much at the moment but as an additional aid to my procrastination I have decided to write a few weblog entries. In the public interest I should mention that they will mostly be nothing but self-indulgent, procrastination-fuelled intellectual-masturbation and I will warn you when I have passed this brief phase [...]