Linzi's blog

Celebrating! From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (1 day old)

I just found out that the notorious clone of Mrs Thatcher, the utterly revolting money-grubber Blair is no longer in contention for the post of European Council president. Perhaps now he will start wo… more

You can't believe the Telegraph... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (1 day old)

They have this fine picture of a lenticular cloud, here... Underneath, the text says... Sometimes likened to UFOs, lenticular clouds are usually created by gravity waves. No, they are not… more

Annoying Amazon From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (1 day old)

I find them really useful when I'm selling special Lego sets like Cybermaster. So I was cross today when I had an email from them saying some nonsense about how they were having some sort of Christ… more

It's silly of me, but... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (3 days old)

I just can't seem to stop myself commenting on those idiotic, automatically posted Spam blogs. Update: I had an example link here, but Rampage has heroically deleted the blog. Hurrah!… more

Cobblers... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (5 days old)

"Project Camelot" is probably the biggest load of silly nonsense I have read in absolutely ages. It's such nonsense I can't be bothered to cut and paste a link. If you have time to waste, find it for … more

I had to laugh... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (10 days old)

Rupert Murdoch is threatening to stop all his publications appearing in Google News. That will raise the quality of Google News. The bias in his rags does this Australian dinosaur no favours.… more

Strangeness on eBay From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (10 days old)

I was about to list some of my old computer science books on eBay, but they wanted me to list them with free postage. I have asked for that in the Post Office before now, but they just laughed. Pre… more

A planet I visited today. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (10 days old)

I'm building up to an intellectually stimulating post, by playing a little Spore in between putting stuff on eBay. As you may be able to see, I just terraformed this place to T1 for its inhabitant… more

Beware of this one! From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (12 days old)

This scam looks quite realistic, and could potentially be VERY nasty indeed. The clickable link goes to somewhere in Russia, that will attempt to run a PHP program on your computer. Avoid!… more

I'm keeping this simple for Alan. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (14 days old)

I'm going to keep it simple because Alan Johnson has problems understanding science, evidence, truth, and above all he seems to have enormous difficulty understanding classifications. Or perhaps he is… more

The fuss about tags. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (15 days old)

I'm a bit baffled, I must confess, at the fury that has broken out here. On occasion, I have pointed out to people that they have forgotten to separate their tags with commas, resulting in a huge tag … more

Mad eyes, part 94. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (19 days old)

It is clear now that Alan Johnson wants to be our next mad eyed prime minister. We already know that he does not believe in science, or actual truth, or evidence, preferring rather the views of th… more

Nice helpful comment... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (20 days old)

Here, you could have seen a comment I left on a spammer's blog page, but blog.co.uk have sensibly deleted the blogger who did it. May they rot in the bit-bucket!… more

Government sacks scientist for telling the truth. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (21 days old)

The BBC version naturally makes more sense than the Daily Mail version. All we need to know about the Daily Fail's reporting is the biased and incorrect headline "Sacked: Drug tsar who claimed Ecst… more

Remind me, why should I obey the law? From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (21 days old)

After all, our government ignores it, time after time, quite blatantly. Take for example the Phorm scandal, where BT spied on its customers. The government was told quite clearly to make BT stop doing… more

Might this be too good to be true? From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (22 days old)

A recent message... Hello, Greetings Sirm // From the Desk of Mr. Pascal Gorkoffi, Jr. Auditing Department in (FINANCIAL BANK TOGO) Lome- Togo ; West Africa . -------------------------------… more

Well done, the Terminator! From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (22 days old)

Arnie has not been getting much help form his state legislature, apparently, and got a bit naughty about it. I remember being told off for doing the same thing on Prestel, a while ago...… more

Told you so, part 94. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (25 days old)

"Well, that about wraps it up for God." … more

They must have used a microscope... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (27 days old)

A freebie in the Independent tomorrow, apparently... something small, but very poisonous... The artist got the wierd eyes right, but has exagerated the size of the brain.… more

Hand made furniture for Christmas? From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (27 days old)

And why not? One of my brothers has just put some of his new pieces on eBay... For instance, this spice rack... … more

Why is the Post Office in a mess? From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (28 days old)

Now I have no idea whether Adam Crozier was any use at all when running the Football Association, or even whether he did anything much there to get his pay. But here is what Wikipedia says about his w… more

Tired of handbag spam? From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (28 days old)

This is the web site they are promoting, and it just happens to have a comment page... handbag them… more

The handbag spammer. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (29 days old)

This is who is hiding behind the IP address 123.161.77.87 inetnum: 123.160.0.0 - 123.163.255.255 netname: CHINANET-HA descr: CHINANET henan province network descr: China … more

Amy Winehouse's dad warns MPs.... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (30 days old)

Amy Winehouse's dad warns MPs alcohol can lead to heroin and cocaine. My thanks to the Daily Mirror for this fascinating insight. Only a few months ago, the government was given some advice about d… more

Don't click "Raj Rajaratnam, Founder of Galleon Hedge Fund Arrested" From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (34 days old)

The person or machine who keeps posting these things puts up what appears to be a link to a video. It is not. It is a link to a page that will attempt to infect your computer. To see if a page has … more

Guardian reading spider shock horror... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (36 days old)

One of my brothers (damn fine people!) sent me the link to this fascinating story, which appears far more likely than some of the fake stuff that has been planted in the press lately.… more

Phishing warning. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (38 days old)

If you get this one, don't click the link. It would install something nasty on your computer. Attention! On October 16, 2009 server upgrade will take place. Due to this the system may be off… more

The Tory pension theft was incompetent... From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (40 days old)

When I heard that George (Bum Nose) Osborne was going to force people to work an extra year, paying extra tax and extra national insurance, before they could have the pension they had paid for, I … more

Get your library to lend you this book! From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (41 days old)

I was going to write more about this wonderful book, and maybe I will later... From memories of a childhood blessed with an acute awareness of the wonders of nature to a present day crusade to save… more

"Call me Dave" is wrong. Gordon is right. From The_Walrus ^Pro in The Walrus (41 days old)

You were not expecting me to say that second part, were you? I think it is significant that I saw this in The Telegraph, a proper newspaper, unlike the Murdoch trash Sun. Well for a start, would I … more