Archives

Archive for April, 2005

Can’t We Save Them For Invasion Warnings?

Christians. I hate them. Okay, maybe that’s a bit strong, but the guy that rings the bell at church on a Sunday morning? Well, I’d like to have a word with him. I mean, it’s not as if I’m unaware of your opening times - Sunday morning, too early.
There are 3 churches within about 400 […]

Journalism

“We just want you to write the odd article about, well anything really” he said, instantly giving me a rough feel for the kind of tightly focused product they publish.
That’s just about all that I can really remember in detail. It says in my diary that they were having a “working meeting in a pub”. […]

Are Your Papers In Order?

As any foreigner living in Germany will tell you. No, let me start that again, as anyone living in Germany will tell you, the bureaucracy is hell. It isn’t that it’s particularly corrupt - I’d happily bribe someone to get to the front of the queue if I could - there’s just so much of […]

Yeah, But I Remember Thatcher….

Iain Murray notes a Telegraph poll from yesterday. As it points out….
Contradicting the hoary old myth that young people are invariably radical, the above-average swing in the 18-34 age group is not in Labour’s favour but the Tories’.
Without wanting to put a dampener on Conservative Central Office’s new found optimism, there’s an obvious explanation for […]

Arse-Injected Death Syndrome

When I was much younger, me and my best friend Matt always joked that that was what AIDS stood for – in the same way that GAY was an acronym for Got Aids Yet? Personally, I thought we were pretty mature and disturbingly witty for two 13 year olds…..
Matt was my best friend, in a […]

Phishing For Post

I finally got my first phishing e-mail in German, purporting to be from the Postbank
Sehr geehrter Kunde,
Da es viele Betrugsfaelle mit den Konten von unseren Bankkunden zustande gekommen sind, bitten wir Sie, eine neue TAN-Kodesabsicherung zu benutzen, um die Sperrung von Ihrem Konto zu vermeiden.
Die TAN-Absicherung besteht darin:
Sie tasten zwei TAN-Nummern in die elektronische Form […]