My husband David's been getting a lot of spam emails, and so have I. The trickiness is that we can't just mark the emails "spam" and forget it, because they're spoofed to appear to come from our domain. They're getting stopped, but we need to figure out some filters to refuse them completely. It's still amusing to continue to get emails from our "staff" telling us our computers are "zombies." In light of the preceding link, does this mean that we're bound to get all medieval on the zombies' decaying asses? For the first time Blogula had a lot of…
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Photos from Saturday’s car show: don’t know if this Gallery plugin still works… Okay, really it was a fun day but also it was a grueling one; I was scheduled to switch back and forth on tasks and I just couldn’t do it because the other task was much more in the sun. So I made change and tried not to think of how my brain was slowly frying. At one point I misplaced an important list and totally forgot that I’d put it away – no one was more surprised than me when I got home, after figuring out…
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BBC NEWS | UK | ‘Ordinary’ lives of bomb suspects My God, they came from an ordinary British city, they were ordinary British subjects. But then Timothy McVeigh and Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski were ordinary people from ordinary places. What made them become extraordinary? The British will be debating the root causes of these attacks – whether it’s religious mania, hatred of “people not like us,” alienation, mental illness, and so on. Just as we did with our home-grown “mad bombers” – and we’ve never found the answers, either. My husband David and I have been to Leeds, and we’ve taken…
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If you’re a fan of “The Amazing Race,” you’re in luck. The cable network GSN will begin broadcasting all eight seasons of the show, in order, on a nightly basis starting at 8 p.m. Monday. “There are tons of people who came to this show in later seasons, and they’ve never seen these [early] episodes, because unlike dramas, reality shows don’t usually repeat and don’t hit syndication as quickly,” said Linda Holmes, an attorney from Bloomington, Minn., who, under the moniker Miss Alli, has recapped every season of “TAR” for the Web site TelevisionWithoutPity.com. “For people who missed those seasons,…
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Dorothea Salo wonders about how it works that one is perceived differently by different people. She has enthusiastic admirers, and there are also people from the far end of the lunch table who dislike her writing or her forthrightness and opinions. And there are some who criticize her not for what she writes, but for what she is: childfree. One blogger considers me anathema (is there a word stronger than anathema? if there is, this blogger would use it of me) because I don’t make any particular secret of not liking ill-behaved children and not wanting children of my own…
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Okay, so I was running around doing errands before the big classic car show (“The Holy Rollers are coming, aiyeee, et cetera”) at Holy Moly tomorrow, and I passed this sign. Now, previously we’ve always been focused on pledges and budgets and can we afford this and that and “we’ve always done it this way” each year, and not really doing much to actually HELP people less fortunate than ourselves. Because to put it baldly, compared with some of the people and charities we’ve been talking about supporting, we’re rolling in dough. Yes, comparatively, and that’s in a year where…
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London Pride Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Last night I enjoyed a tasty glass of Fuller’s London Pride, as planned, and then photographed it and uploaded it to Flickr. Then this morning I was listening to a radio essay by Scott Simon on NPR called “The Resilience of London — and Londoners.” It was one of Simon’s best ever, right up there with his dispatches from Sarajevo. The piece ended with an old song by Noel Coward called “London Pride.” It was scratchy sounding and creaky in the joints, but it had something to say about the strength Londoners found to…
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And St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington is treating 10 people, two of which are in a critical condition. Three of St Mary’s patients have been transferred to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s specialist burns unit, bringing the number there to four. A spokeswoman for Chelsea and Westminster said they were being assessed by a team of plastic surgeons. That’s a little disturbing. Paddington was “our” station and St Mary’s was just up the street from the Indian restaurant (Indus Delta) where we had our first dinner in London… when we felt we’d been welcomed by the city, and were totally ready…
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towerbridge-thumb Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Another photo from the 2004 trip to Britain. I have to remember, until I figure out how to get the text to flow properly on photos posted from Flickr, that I need to write enough text to clear the bottom of the image, or the problem posed by having a floated image within a floated center column will keep screwing things up. I keep fiddling with the customized CSS at Flickr; images blogged from Flickr look great over at the Blogspot photoblog, but they’re are handled differently there (no CSS drop shadow) and the layout…
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So thanks then, terrorists. You’ve just succeeded in bringing the families of millions of Londoners that bit closer together, giving them an increased love of their city and an enhanced appreciation of their way of life. You might have destroyed the lives of several hundred people, but – and this is stating the bloody obvious you fuckwits – you’ve achieved nothing. My train goes through Kings Cross and my office is less than half a mile from three of the bombs, and how did it affect me and thousands like me? I had a longer walk to the station on…