tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69316302012-04-16T01:45:51.548+01:00Blog about spam and other stuff.JeremyPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02992177336646447781noreply@blogger.comBlogger182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931630.post-87796732878849085602010-10-10T22:06:00.002+01:002010-10-10T22:14:03.488+01:00

... come these posts.Also, according to numerologists, says the Channel 5 News, 10/10/10 comes "once in a generation". Let's examine that: the last 10/10/10 was exactly 100 years ago and the next one will be in exactly 100 years. That seems a long time for a generation. Maybe they meant a repeating number in a date. Well 9/9/9 was last year and 11/11/11 will be next year. That seems rather

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Last Thursday, I was sitting outside a bar in Italy with a cold beer and I watched the current World Champions (Italy) come last in their group in the World Cup. Previously, I followed the total self destruction of the French challenge. Tonight, either Spain or Portugal will "crash out" just like we did. It's not our divine right to win at football and our team just isn't very good right now.

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Has nobody else noticed this? The wife of Northern Ireland First Minister Gerry Robinson had an affair with a 19 year old. Presumably her name is Mrs Robinson. (Doo de doo de doo doo. Doo de doo de doo doo doo)

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Here's a video I took on the last day of my holiday.And here are some photographs.

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I think it's generally acknowledged that the worst cover of all time is William Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". it is a truly appalling recording and has to be heard at least once because otherwise you will not believe how badly a song can be destroyed.On a slightly related note (ha! geddit) there is Jezza's first law of music which is that any cover of a Beatles song is bound to be

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I've installed Google Earth 5 on my Mac and I found out that it has a wonderful piece of invisible software tht does automatic updates in the background. This is great except for two thingsIt's a security risk - if an update is compromised, there is nothing I can do to stop itI would not be impressed with Google trying to download a new Google Earth while I am connected to the Internet via a

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I have a memory from when I was very young of being dragged out of my bed in the middle of the night by my parents and being sat in front of the telly. The telly was showing grainy pictures of a man in a space suit climbing down a ladder onto what looked like the Moon.Anyway, in honour of the first Moon landing here is some trivia on the subject:"Apollo" has got 11 in it separated by two

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In an parallel Universe, Arsenal wins the league, FA Cup and Champions League. However, as the photo shows, the alternate Universe has opposite chirality.The photo comes from this article:Arsenal 'must triumph in Europe'.

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It's happened. Arsenal's 4-1 win at Wigan means that Spurs can no longer catch them in the Premier League. There will be rejoicing in the streets tonight, but probably not as much rejoicing as when Aston Villa can no longer catch us, assuming that day happens at all.

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I was at a loose end so I decided to reread some of my blog archives. Apart from discovering that I can't actually write, I found this snippet in one of the comments from my reader (or "brother" is the more correct technical term).John Kettley is a weather man A weather man A weather man John Kettley is a weather man And so is Michael FishThis is a bizarre coincidence since it was one of the

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This web site is for all those people who get really annoyed at other people asking them questions that could easily be answered with a simple Google. For instance: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=jeremyp

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St Totteringham's Day will be on 11th April as long as Arsenal pick up two more points than Spurs in the next two games.

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The image to the right is a screen capture from an advertisement on the Nat West Banking web site. Notice how creative types always use a picture of an Apple Macintosh when they need an image of a laptop. For the record, the computer in the picture is a Titanium Powerbook, a laptop that Apple haven't made for about six years.The Titanium Powerbook had a PowerPC G4 processor in it which meant

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How green is wind power? Well a British Gas have inadvertently let slip some embarrassing facts about wind turbines. It turns out that they don't work at all and the blades are actually driven by electric motors driven from the National Grid. Proof? Watch this advertisement and note who has the cable with the plug on it and who has the socket.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALSspMI6_rE

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You know how you were always told to back up your important data? Well here's a salutary lesson. You see, journalspace.com thought that mirrored disks equals backups. They were wrong. Unfortunately, they failed to realise (for six years) that a mirrored disk will faithfully reproduce everything you or your software puts on it. That includes the command "delete database".

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It's a while since I've posted a blog and, as my brother recently posted a new blog of his own, I need to post something to show that I'm more active in the blogging community than he is.So here is the latest on Saint Totteringham's day. Sadly, it has moved into April thanks to some poor performances by Arsenal and some good ones by Spurs. With any luck things will improve now that Arsenal no

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I'm doing a lot of work with Adobe LiveCycle at the moment. If you want to run it, you need 2 gigabytes of RAM which I have on my laptop, but then I can't do anything else. Specifically, I'd have to run Windows natively rather than as a VMWare image. So, I've bought a 4Gb RAM upgrade from Crucial (£42), not from Apple (£196) and I've installed it. 4Gb is as much RAM as you can put in a

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Aer Lingus is in trouble. They're losing money at an enormous rate and so they've decided to outsource much of their ground operations. Look at the following quote from the article:Aer Lingus has set a 15 December deadline for staff to accept voluntary severance or early retirement.Somebody should tell them that the word they are looking for is "compulsory".

JeremyPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02992177336646447781noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931630.post-90358717654762681132008-10-23T19:15:00.003+01:002008-10-23T19:22:41.785+01:00

The image is a screen print of the properties dialog box of a workflow process in Adobe LiveCycle ES Workbench. It's good to know that they are looking after my welfare by making sure that I can't accidentally save my property changes by pressing "OK". Unfortunately, I also can't deliberately save my property changes either.Just in case you are wondering, if the process was open in an editor,

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What, you may ask, is Saint Totteringham's Day? Well, Saint Totteringham's Day is the day on which Tottenham Hotspur can no longer catch Arsenal in the league, which is to say the day on which the total points available to Spurs is lower than the number of points Arsenal already have. It's entirely possible that the day doesn't happen in a particular year, if, for example Spurs actually finish

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Alex Salmond, Scottish First Minister is claiming that the UK should make more money available to Scotland. For all I know, he is right. Perhaps the UK should release the money to stave off recession in Scotland. But Alex Salmond is also the leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party and he wants independence for Scotland. Well Alex, independence includes independence from UK financial

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It looks like In Our Time has moved away from Radio 4.

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Naturally, I'm downloading it as we speak. I'll post some screenshots when I have it working.

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Last week the Radio 4 Today programme ran a story on the forgery of One Pound coins. Apparently, two percent of the one pond coins in circulation are forged. They also gave some tips on how to spot a fake. At the time, I had five one pound coins in my loose change, so I thought Ha! there's a possibility I have got one (in fact the chance is about 10%). So I checked the coins in my possession

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Inspired by a conversation I overheard between two security officers at Heathrow.My big sisterLives in Bicester,Played some Twister,With a MisterMan.Thank you.

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