Month: June 2007

Advance Warning…

I regularly take part in a number of online consumer surveys (the pay isn’t much – generally 50p or £1 a time, but every little helps). Usually, they…

Midsummer…..

….and the wet weather seems to be easing off. It certainly spoiled any plans for observing the Solstice – we’ve had cloudy skies since forever, and last night…

Things….

Finally got this machine sorted. I kept reinstalling and getting reinfected – kept removing the trojans responsible with various tools, but failed – took a look at the…

omigod!!!!!111!!

Panic now!!: The Terrible Truth About Wi-Fi Meanwhile, Julia Stephenson has replied to Ben Goldacre’s criticism of her laughably unscientific (“Any imbalance in our electromagnetic field creates a…

Grrrr…..

……damm spyware…. Spent all day yesterday trying to clear spyware and trojans from my machine. Had just about decided to give up and and reformat, when I remembered…

Problems….

…still having some problems with the new install. Searching for a way to make my copy of XP at least semi-legal, I went to a couple of less-than-safe…

Back online…..

….Long story short: whilst visiting a dodgy website on Tuesday, picked up a shedload of viruses and Trojans, which proceeded to royally mess up my settings – my…

Well….

….had my eyes thoroughly checked today at the opticians. The bad news is that this dry eye condition isn’t going away, so I’ll be putting in eyedrops three…

Scam, scam, scam, scam…

….scam, scam, scam, scam…. (sung to the tune of the Spam Song) This dropped into my inbox today: Subject: Donation assistant vacancy in the USA This message is…