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That ‘dripping’ is the sound of the steady erosion of privacy and individual freedom as the UK descends still further into the realms of Big Brother and the advent of the Police State. Bizarrely, to me at least, it’s a Labour government that is currently creating a Data Communications Bill to be presented as part … More Drip, drip, drip, drip…
Despite my complaints about UK rag, The Daily Mail in the last post, I *did* read several of the stories. One that caught my eye was yet another story about the bizarre garbage collection laws currently being enforced in draconian style by kerbside Nazis. In this particular case a 22 year old woman has been … More More rubbish about rubbish.
I’ve been perusing the UK papers again and have spent a while looking through The Daily Mail which I’m sure I remember as a right wing, but basically even handed paper with some good editorial comment. The online version seems to either belie this memory, or the social situation in the UK has deteriorated to … More On the media's tale.
I saw an advert today for The Flip which is billing itself as ‘The World’s Simplest Video Camera’. Well of course this is all marketing hype par excellence. The basic features of “The Flip” are very similar to another tiny video camera… which of course I bought a year or more ago… called The Traveler … More Traveler DV-5040 versus The Flip
Despite Kevin Rudd’s government having excellent environmental credentials, it seems that Cape Alumina, a mining company might get mining rights to hack a huge hole in the area Steve Irwin bought as a permanent wildlife reserve. Seems there is bauxite under the ground and in Australia whilst you might own the surface you bizarrely have … More Rape of the fair country.
For preference I use Firefox as my browser of choice. It’s fast, easy to use and filled with features some other browsers don’t have. However, because I play with web pages I have to have the other major browsers available to ‘test’ that all I do looks similar in all of them. The newest kid … More That's Safari…
I changed the settings as said, so that now anyone going to lewmat.com or lewmat.com/forum is sent to the forum site regardless… and all works as it should. Except… when I try to access it using the *laptop* – it says it can’t find it!! Why is this peculiar? Because in the Firefox, Safari and … More How peculiar!
The forum bridge to the gallery seems to be causing trouble so I’m thinking maybe we remove it and if there are a few photos we want to show each other but not the world, we upload them directly to the forum instead? So what I’m considering is this. Currently if you go to the … More A bridge too far?
This morning we went off to the bus and the air was definitely chilly. Not because we were quarreling, but because the temperature was showing as 3ºC… and this when it’s not quite winter. Just for good measure the air conditioner in the car seems to have developed a ‘delay’ setting, perhaps *because* it’s so … More There's a nip in the air
I was at the doctors surgery this morning and out of the blue the old proverb came to mind, i.e…. “Early to bed, Early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” … and the thought came to me… what a load of tosh!! I’m up early most mornings and have been for most … More Potty proverbs
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