Strangely Perfect

Introduction Google Alerts are a neat way to keep track of stuff that interests you.  I use it to follow web appearances of the band from my earlier life called Crawling Chaos. Quite often, it’ll pull up web references to pilfering of our copyright material, but that’s the way of the world now. Anyway, here’s [...]

PreScript Advice If you think you’ve had your bank ‘cleaned out’ by any of a multitude of ‘life cleanse’ or ‘colon cleanse’ type internet scams, there is only one real remedy… Ask for a charge-back against the company through you credit card company. Your reason, when asked, is that the company has either: Not adhered [...]

Introduction Poacher turned Gamekeeper I’ve been rss following a little thread where a job-seeking homeworker has been diddled out of thousands – see Saundrak’s Blog. It seems to have close ties to Pacific Webworks et al, maybe not directly, but the Golf Course, techniques,  or something. Read this curious comment from someone called mlwood79 that [...]

Introduction I knew there was something really, really dodgy about that MyBookFace.net crap highlighted in this post the other day. Not only are they connected to some serious malware (as detailed in the posting), but they’ve an interesting line in popups!!! Google Treasure Chest Rises Yet Again! Here’s what to do… Go to http://mybookface.net making [...]

Introduction My email spambuster Mailwasher Pro is doing overtime since I posted my investigation into Google Treasure Chest and the Robert G Allen Grants swindle. In this second investigation, I showed how the email spam system links the various scam systems together. That is: By signing up for one sytem, I started receiving email spam [...]

Introduction A few month’s back the Adobe Acrobat Reader landed itself in doo-doo with some Javascript security worries.  Adobe were slow off the mark informing their customers (like me) what to do.  So it was the blogs that provided the answer: Turn off Javascript Unfortunately, this wasn’t enough.  After a week a huge patch was [...]

Site Statistics One of the benefits of managing your own website is you can check exactly who’s been visiting your site.  There are various sorts of visit, the most common for most sites being from search engine robots.  If you include these in your statistics, it makes you look really good…. mystimulusmoney.com Another sort are [...]

Introduction While fishing around for some chords I came across azchords.com – as you do.  They’ve a shedload of Google ads and I accidentally hit the banner ad while trying to get rid of pesky popups (why do sites still do this now?)  I was taken to the website of someone called Kevin Hoeffer and [...]

Paris Cycles Freely with Loaded Questions and Answers In Buddhism, there’s a concept called the forces of negativity which is inherent to the whole universe – but especially when applied to living sentient beings like ourselves. These negative forces are extremely apparent when the Velib Cycle Scheme in Paris is considered.  We have: The initial [...]

Apparently, eating blueberries is good for memory retention.  The only trouble is, I’ve forgotten if I’ve had them today… Links: Blueberries are definitively good for you…. they stop you forgetting – (Reading Univ) Getting forgetful? Then blueberries may hold the key – (Peninsular Medical School)

Happenstance, Circumstance or Co-incidence? In Ian Fleming’s “Goldfinger”, the villain, Auric Goldfinger uses part of the above phrase after bumping into James Bond several times.  The second time he actually says to Mister Bond; Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action In this article (Warning signs that may force committee to think [...]

Fears for Lloyds takeover of HBOS Shares in HBOS fall more than 30% below offer price Apparently, because of all the current shenanigans, the LloydsTSB offer for HBOS is going to fall through because ..it is the discount between 188p and 127.5p that is causing confusion in the City as the HBOS share price would [...]

Introduction This is taken from today’s CTC newsletter. I never thought it’d work! Especially in PARIS…  what do I know? !! Parisians embrace ‘freedom’ bike scheme Taxi drivers and other critics said that it would never work, but three weeks after Paris was sprinkled with 10,000 self-service bicycles, the ‘Velib’ scheme is proving a triumph [...]