Category Archives: Blather

I just had a phish addressed to “Dear Fleet Bank valued customer”. I have, of course, never heard of Fleet Bank. It goes on in the usual style: As part of our ongoing commitment to protect your account and to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

forget to renew their domains — look at Mitch Kapor’s Chandler project. Whois knows nothing of osafoundation.org this morning, either. I’m sorry. I know you have been a good person all your life. I know you have deserved salvation, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Jonny Boatfield has a show coming up in Cambridge in mid-August: portraits of people in care homes around here. He sat and talked to them until he had their life stories. Then he drew what he saw. It’s at the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The admirable Billmon has a statistic I don’t understand and can’t really believe: All told, real wages dropped more than 20 per cent between 1972 and 1992. I’ve often wondered what the political fallout would have been if that same … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I caught sight of the Conservative party’s logo on a web site that people were being invited to mock, and I thought it represented some kind of delta-winged craft crashing after an erratic flight. Only later did I remember that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Last week I finally tired of the 2000+ spams a day that were coming into darwinwars.com. My lovely little Python script showed that about 75-80% of them were dictionary attacks so I fixed things so that all mail was refused … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From time to time, I like to post photographs of people who comment on this blog. This is Sean (the man kneeling behind him is his ghost writer). Continue reading →

The bar in the new Rada building is one of the least depraved places I know: full of hard-working good looking young people drinking healthy coffees and smoling healthy cigarettes. But whenever I sit there, I remember a story about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One mysterious detail in a recent local court case. A Londoner was caught at the security in Stansted airport with a cosh, a knife, and teargas spray. The cosh and the teargas, he said, were left over from his evening … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s about 20 to 1 in the morning. I just got back from the Rada production of The Governent Inspector, and it is wonderful. Anyone in London this week really ought to try to get tickets. It’s a student production, … Continue reading → Continue reading →