Author: sroot
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The Floating Madhouse (Alexander Fullerton)
A pre world war one novel of… well, little interest to me as it turned out. The ships are the early ironclads of the 1900’s and although there were sections of interesting detail the story as a whole just didn’t hold my attention. The setting was clever, a Royal Navy junior officer with Russian family…
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Spam wars – "determination of damages" hearing date set
Taking a spammer to court to get them to stop isn’t for the faint of heart. Here’s the history: A company, “Cybernet Media” (stick .co.uk on the end of that and you’ll find their website, I’ll not give them the benefit of a link) started sending spam way back in 2006. I asked them to…
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BBC iPlayer – still not worth installing but worth watching online
The BBC iPlayer came out of beta recently and they’ve been advertising it’s release to the masses across BBC TV. I tried the beta version earlier in the year (well, 2007, you know what I mean) and my first response to it coming out of beta was simply “Have they fixed it then?”. Why? When…