Farewell Summer, you brought the Ashes home to dear ole Blighty, a shed load of holiday fun and weeks of R’n’R.

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/549/hotlink1ls.jpg

Don’t you just hate it when this happens….

Update 2022: Back in 2005 I didn’t realise that hot linking is bad, probably because I didn’t host a website myself. My web hosting company blocks hot linking to image files as standard.

Hotlinking: What Is It and Why Is It Bad?

https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/hotlinking

http://www.rootkush.com/

Another flashtastic site

Update 2022: The original link was to a flash game where you could make music but I can’t track down a copy on the web, which is a shame as it was fun.

So the nearest I can do is provide a link to the rootkush syndicate’s site on soundcloud.

http://store.cgsociety.org/product/000130/

https://web.archive.org/web/20051124092445/http://store.cgsociety.org/product/000130/

http://www.cgsociety.org/

Lots and lots of eye candy for you to enjoy.

Identity cards may actually increase identity theft despite ‘new technology’

http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=business&id=2536

From the page:
“In a damning blow to the UK government’s love affair with identity cards, a British criminologist has warned that the new technology could actually increase, rather than solve, the problem of identity theft and fraud.”

Update 2022: Unlike ID cards Identity theft didn’t disappear but got worse

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/healthy_living/your_weight/bmiimperial_index.shtml

Update 2022: Problem solved

http://www.brandinfection.com/wp-content/Spoof/evian_naive2.jpg

Are you Addicted to the Internet?
75%

Hardcore Junkie (61% – 80%)
While you do get a bit of sleep every night and sometimes leave the house, you spend as much time as you can online. You usually have a browser, chat clients, server consoles, and your email on auto check open at all times. Phone? What’s that? You plan your social events by contacting your friends online. Just be careful you don’t get a repetitive wrist injury…

Thanks to http://the-one-u-want.stumbleupon.com/ for this

http://pussycat.kloetstra.com/

This week I is mostly listening to…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4141948.stm

I’m feeling cryptic so who said this:

‘Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?’

Clues:
i) It wasn’t John Prescott, the British deputy Prime Minister http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Prescott
ii) It wasn’t http://edwthelongshanks.stumbleupon.com/

Answers when I get back, on the other hand you could just ‘google’ it: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%20%22who%20will%20rid%20me%20of%20this%20turbulent%20priest%22&imgsz=xxlarge&svnum=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=iw

http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/3838/265749ej.jpg

Updated 2022:

Screwed over by imageshack changing their use policy. Before I had my own space I used to use image shack to host blog pictures – but in 2015 they changed their policy and these pictures are now lost – some can be salvaged – others not. These ones can’t.

This is going to happen a lot…

New characters for a new century.

http://www.lemonde.fr/

C’est un journal francais

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1442457/posts

Mohammad Sidique Khan the ‘Killer in the classroom’

`it gets a little closer every day.
Suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, working as a teaching mentor in a classroom at a school in the Beeston area of Leeds.

The last couple of weeks have been mindnumbing.

The hope of Live8, the sucess of London 2012, the horror of the London Bombings and then the unsettling relevations that there were Al Qaeda operatives amongst us.

We aren’t talking 6 degrees of separation, and by that I mean I was in the same room as Mohammad Sidique Khan a year or so ago. At the time I didn’t converse with him just said ‘Hello’.

Some of my friends and colleagues actually worked with them. I have great difficulty in coming to terms with the fact that this man was working in a caring profession – working with Special Needs Children.

This man:

Magdy el-Nashar is a suspect and is currently in gaol in Cairo until just before the bombings he was resident in Leeds. I know he is a very devout muslim and tried to convert most people he met. He certainly knew at least one of the bombers and holding a doctorate in biochemistry had the knowledge and skills to make the explosive triacetone triperoxide that was used. Large amounts of bomb making equipment was found in a flat he rented, and he left the UK three days before the attacks took place.

Is he one of them?

He worked with people very close to me.

He will be investigated and I trust the West Yorkshire Police to be fair.

Any of these bastards that are given a fair trial and found guilty will to my mind suffer a fate worse than death. They will languish in one of Her Majesties prisons for a very long time locked up with hundreds of violent British criminals who will spend many long hours devising ingenious ways to torment them when the ‘screws’ aren’t looking.

I’m not usually given to such dark thoughts as these but I’m glad that despite recent events I do not want to see the return of capital punishment and judicial murder.

http://quizilla.com/cgi-bin/result/result.plhttp://quizilla.com/users/daddysgirl/quizzes/Where%20Did%20Your%20Soul%20Originate%3F

Update Can’t find the original so here’s something approximately the same:

https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=are-you-good-evil

“You come from Heaven. You’re the purest of pure, a saint. You’re probably an angel sent directly from Heaven.”

http://www.shanghaidiaries.com/archives/IMG_7409.php

Mass protests on the streets of Shanghai, echoes of 1966 or adumbrations of international conflict?

http://www.stopusa.be/home/index.php?langue=3

Update:

One of the things about StumbleUpon was that you could give a thumbs down negative review – which I did here. To be honest back in 2005 we didn’t have all the non-stop bat shit insane conspiracy stuff like we do now. The self righteous do love to be self righteous though and this site was a non-stop exercise in virtue signalling.

From the page: “It is very obvious that the American forces are committing crimes of genocide every day in Iraq.”

This site is one long anti-american rant.

… so a thumbs down review for stopUSA.be

Haven’t been able to post recently because my house was burgled and the buggers stole all my computers (x2 laptops and my beloved Mac). So I’ve had to set up a new (temporary) system. Hopefully, things will return to normal soon as I backed up my bookmarks and most of my work related files were either on a spare machine at work or existed in hard copy.

The three rules of computing are:
1) Back up your files.
2) Always backup your files.
3) Never forget to backup your files.

Good advice, but I wish I had been more diligent.

Burglars? String ’em up, it’s the only kind of language they understand!

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/nira.htm

From the web site:

“Suspected of receiving funds from sympathizers in the United States and of attempting to buy weapons from US gun dealers. RIRA also is reported to have purchased sophisticated weapons from the Balkans.

In May 2002, three Irish nationals associated with RIRA pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to cause an explosion and trying to obtain weapons following their extradition from Slovenia to the United Kingdom.”

Update: Glad to see this site is still with us and archived properly. The full site (The Federation of American Scientists: Intelligence Resource Program) is well worth a look:

https://irp.fas.org/index.html

I like the concept of Open source Intelligence

http://www.avcen.com/

Makers of the Jetpod which is ‘… to all intent and purpose a low-cost world-class city airtaxi’

I want one!
flashtastic site

Update:

It all ended in tears

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCEN_Jetpod

Discussed in detail here:

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/avcen-jetpod-vqstol.10742/

http://www.colditz-4c.com/

Update: can’t find this on the wayback machine

Colditz: See the Castle, fall in love with the town

http://desktop.google.com/?promo=rpp-gds-en-uk-5

The idea of Google knowing what’s on my computer, my complete web history and the content of my emails is sinister. They are not offering this service from any altruistic motive, they are a company that makes money. So what will they do with the information they harvest from my computer? Who can have access to it – commercial organisations or governments? MI5 (British Military Intelligence) and other national security agencies must love this. Despite Google’s assertion that they respect privacy I am not convinced. They have already demonstrated that they will co-operate with totalitarian governments to censor and restrict Internet access to further the interests of their shareholders so basically I don’t trust them.

Update: Google desktop ceased to be in September 2011

http://dec.org.uk/

Give, give, give! – don’t be confused about the title this is for the tsunami appeal.

Merry Christmas!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.davies527/sheep/sheepimages/sheepindex.htm

Amusing ovine animations and more. Link sadly broken beyond repair

http://www.robottherobot.com/manbaby5/slideshows/b-animation2.htm

I tried to restore this but it didn’t work….

Catchy tune and good animation make this a very entertaining cartoon.