Strangely Perfect

British Workers Sacked for Striking at French Company Total’s Site – see news report Joan la Pucelle. [Aside] Done like a Frenchman: turn, and turn again! – Shakespeare, History of Henry VI, Part I, Line 1695 In Lindsey, Lincs, 650 workers have been sacked for being on an “unofficial” strike (whatever that means in a [...]

Below is the plain text of an email spam I got today.  I always view as plain text and all my messages are spam checked, in various ways.  Some POP3 stuff comes in via Mailwasher Pro, which I’ve mentioned before; other stuff I forward through gmail and use the spam filters in there, which are [...]

Yet another Example of the Abuse of Statistics The chart is an estimate from Netcraft of the growth in the number of web pages world-wide. This figure is extremely hard to quantify, so is a best guess. The news; European ‘cyber patrols’ to fight crime ..is a great headline that disguises much fear, doubt and [...]

Our weirdly bipolar government, will spring a few surprises today for most people.  (The realisation that bi-polar disorder affects organisations as well as individuals fully explains their behaviour and thus, holds no surprises for me, any more ). Coloured comments added later on Wednesday, 3rd Dec 2008. Predictably, even though a few thousand gambling bankers [...]

“NOD32 has pulled out another nasty from an email that arrived today on one of my spam honeypot addresses.  Unlike last time, this time the identical (to me) message contains a Worm instead of a Trojan as an attachment.  NOD32 identifies it as an exe file inside a zip file called “a variant of Win32/Nuwar [...]

This is just a little follow up to and earlier post.  Secunia, in their latest weekly summary to me, state this: VIRUS ALERTS: During the past week Secunia collected 215 virus descriptions from the Antivirus vendors. However, none were deemed MEDIUM risk or higher according to the Secunia assessment scale. ==================================================== 3) This Weeks Top [...]

Hospitals ‘infested with vermin’ In the latest bout of the fear and gloom sweeping the country, (BBC link above), this time it’s the tories mixing facts and data up with proper information – and typically, the media are going along with it because it makes good copy. Read the article, illustrated with a picture of [...]

An interesting take on the cost of the “war on terror” and also the true level of “Military Intelligence” (for that’s what it’s called) in the US military is revealed in agricultural England. The place is Mildenhall, Suffolk, site of a US airbase (and a Raines’s Dairy I used to deliver to….but that’s another story.) [...]

I learnt a lot on a very recent trip up north (where it’s grim) for prezzies, and to see Holly and The Symptoms. Holly updated me with lots of details my piss-poor memory fucked up and has provided me with some shavings of archive Crawling Chaos materiel I can use to further a clear history [...]