- February 24, 2010
- What? No Google! Use Robert Allen Instead!
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet
- Tagged with: address, alert, anger, Audio, bank, BBC, bsadn.pantherssl.com, business, Campaign, comment, Contact, Court, Crap, creative, credit card, Crime, Criminal, decor, Devil, dodgy, fake news, Farm, finance, fraud, friend, good, Google, google treasure chest, hidden, HSBC, index, Information, Internet, Java, market, mind, MLM, money, mouse, nation, news sites, ocean, Pacific, Pacific Webworks, pantherssl, privacy, program, PWW, Pyramid, ripoff, Robert Allen, scam, scammers, SEO, service, Spam, spring, state, Success, surprise, Times, Treasure, Treasure Chest, truth, USA, Utah, warning, Website, WebWorks, whois, WordPress
Introduction Spring, last year, was when I first stumbled upon Pacific WebWorks (PWW) and their nefarious schemes. That was when I happened upon Google Treasure Chest, one of their many scams. This then ballooned into a miasma of a web of crime which frankly astonished me. Then, across the globe, many people fought against the [...]
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- December 24, 2008
- WordPress 2.7 Mysterious Permalinks Problem
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet, Technology
- Tagged with: behaviour, BMW, crisis, fault, forum, greed, HSBC, htaccess, industry, laugh, Permalink, Plugin, problem, Resource, Weird, WordPress, World
Problem With Pretty Permalinks. Following on from the recent WordPress update to 2.7, I’ve had the weird effect of first a single post losing the pretty permalinks, then two, then all of them, then I had a big twiddle, (this involved a lot of forum work. This question from Storax I thought nearly had it [...]
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- December 9, 2008
- The Man Who Ate the World – by Frederik Pohl
- Posted by Strangely
- Art, Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: air powered car, Airport, Amazon, attack, battery, BBC, bonus, book, business, capitalism, Christmas, climate, country, credit crunch, Daimler, Earth, Electric, England, Environment, Fantastic, Freedom, future, good, Government, guy negre, happiness, Head, headline, Hero, HOPE, house, HSBC, ID Card, India, infrastructure, legal, Mad, man, market, money, Moon, Mortgage, nation, OPEC, Oxford, panic, Police, power, price, project, Protest, radio, Resource, rights, Sex, snow, Sport, technology, threat, Transport, trial, Vocal, warning, Website, Wikipedia, World, YouTube
Many moons ago I read the short story with the above title. Although not one of Pohl’s best works, it has nevertheless left an obviously lasting impression on me. Written in the mid-fifties, it’s a future tale of consumerism gone mad. In the tale, it’s illegal not to consume as much as possible. The hero [...]
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- August 4, 2008
- HSBC cries Wolf when really, There’s Nothing Wrong!
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom
- Tagged with: Archive, bank, BBC, bonus, brain, business, collapse, communist, credit crunch, debt, Design, Download, Dream, economy, evidence, expert, fault, finance, financial, Government, Head, headline, History, HSBC, institution, insurance, logic, market, money, Mortgage, mp3, nation, possession, property, Protect, public, scam, service, Shit, Sound, state, United States, vehicle, walk, warning, Wikipedia, Windows, World
The latest news from HSBC (Warning as HSBC profits fall 28%), looks pretty dire, (“oh no! 28% down, jump from the windows“), so I’ll be closing my account then, should I? Lets put it in context…. Last year, some chickens came home to roost for people who’d over-leveraged their investments to bolster their lifestyles – [...]
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- April 7, 2008
- HSBC data loss and the Mysterious Phone Call
- Posted by Strangely
- Technology
- Tagged with: address, BBC, business, Circumstance, data, data loss, Database, disc, DVLA, family, Freedom, fuck, Government, hell, house, HSBC, Incompetence, Information, insurance, money, nation, privacy, rights, Security, SSL
I had two interesting calls yesterday from foreign gentlemen. Their basic call went thus: “Hello, is that Mr Rees?” Hmm I replied. “Hi, I’m Simon from LHR. Someone, either you or someone from your address has made an insurance claim from your address recently…” “Who exactly are you?” I said. He then repeated the first [...]
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