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Automatic Domain Name Renewal & Registration

…That was what the e-mail said: that 3 years ago today, I registered the domain name inactualfact.com - and have been posting random mutterings here (with increasing intervals between them) since then.
Of course, lots has happened since then, mostly that I now find it ridiculously difficult to find decent bread.
Added: Yes, yes, the observant amonst […]

Friday Five

General laziness rules today, so just random, but incredibly interesting and important links….
1. Appy Linguist is FirtySix! Go wish ‘im an ‘Appy Birfday. Even ‘is parents forgot for ‘eaven’s sake! The man needs sympathy, and ‘is parents need a calendar, it would seem.
2. Blognor Regis is - and this may come as a surprise to […]

Me, me, meme

Yes, yes, memes are evil, and so is Plumpernickel for tagging me with one. However, limiting the process to three things makes it just about tolerable. So, here goes (answers correct at time of going to press, but subject to change over the course of the day).
3 Things that scare me: Being in a […]

Spam Translations

I know, I know, I should just put the Want Your Willy To Grow? e-mails straight in the bin - the answer’s obvious anyway - just look at the alluring woman/man/farmyard animal/kitchen utensil/whatever takes your fancy and voila! NB: This method works better as a male teenager than later in life. However, (one of) the […]

Okay, Well Just The Odd, Social Blog Then…

I could give up tomorrow, if I wanted to, obviously. But. Now and then, just to be sociable, how harmful can blogging be? Okay, apart those potential jobs where the interviewer quoted extensively and not always positively from the blog - but that was for a job promoting how wonderful life in Germany was – […]

Dust. Bites The. Another One.

So. The TEFL Smiler is no more. Well, actually he is. Probably. Just with a newer, more secret identity, a batcave and a career fighting grammatical errors using sleek, matt black, carbon fibre gizmos (have you seen the new, spring-loaded, rocket-launched OED - with integral grappling hook that has up to 47% more tensile strength […]

Learning About Modern Britain, In Quotes

E-mails:
Nach einem am Dienstag durchgeführten notwendigen Update der E-Mail-Server-Software laufen die Software-Caches, die zur Zwischenspeicherung der E-Mails dienen, noch nicht stabil.
Dadurch treten seit Donnerstag Nachmittag erneut Störungen beim Abruf der E-Mails per POP3, IMAP oder Webmailer auf. Nur ein Teil der Mailbox-Abrufe kann bedient werden.
Ah, that’s not actually modern Britain is it? Still, the mailservers […]

Tracking America’s Enemies…

The most dangerous people in the world, hunted down using everyone’s favourite search engine…
In Actual Fact > Visit Detail
Domain Name pentagon.mil ? (Military)
IP Address 141.116.10.# (Army Information Systems Command-Pentagon)
Location Continent : North America
Country : United States (Facts)
State/Region : District of Columbia
City : Washington
Time of Visit Dec 21 2006 2:45:09 […]

Linkback

As Technorati really is rubbish and as I like to wave to the people who visit me (it’s only polite and you never know, some of them might be cute) it’s about time I made a proper note of some of the latest people linking here. I know, I know, nowadays everyone reads blogs - […]

Test

Test. A testing test that makes me testy.