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Implosion

I find anagrams amusing (sad eh?) and you can look at some of the past entries for some examples. One of them was about holidays and, as I am about to disappear for a week, I thought I'd come up with one.

Over the past week or so I have had my laptop nicked (inc. PDA, credit cards and camera), major power problems at my office, my desktop machine has failed and so on. So I feel like a holiday and shouting "Nurse! Take me away!", an anagram of which is:

A. Nuke my seawater - Not the English Channel please
A weaker nasty emu - but Rod Hull is dead
A weaker sun matey - any sun will do
Reawaken easy tum - otherwise known as Delhi belly or the Tunisian Trots
Aware Yankee Smut - watch out for the Americans
Kenya ewe traumas - I'm not going there but sounds like there is a story to be told

Lets get smart

These guys have spent a lot on this ad I reckon:

and they have a, errm, really cool company name:

But I am not sure they want networking people or not:

Actually the page was hoplessly formatted and riddled with other spelling mistakes. However, these things happen. I recall working at Easynet and we had a product called Easynet Everywhere and took a full page colour advert in an Internet magazine. Only trouble is the "y" was missing from Everywhere and nobody noticed when doing the proof reading.

Worse than that was back in the very early days of Internet access when I was at Demon, we used to print a covering letter to go with the marketing literature. In that letter we covered a number of aspects of what the Internet could provide including all the Public Domain material. Unfortunately, we missed the "l" in public out and, being a correct word, this wasn't picked up by the spell-checker. I think it wasn't noticed for several months.

I could go on...

What to do if you injure yourself on the football field

1. Get yourself booked

or

2. Go over to the bench and asked to be substitued.

Come on, it's not thaat difficult to decide is it?

Free coffee

As I exited from Oxford Circus tube station this morning I was offered a ticket for a free cup of coffee. Now I am not a fan of being accosted in the street as you can see from my Campaign for Unaccosted Pedestrianism, or CUP for short, but I think a bit of two-faced hypocriticalness never hurt anybody and so I took the ticket rather than barge the profferer to the ground.

Sadly, it was from McDonalds. Now, I have nothing against old Ronald McD (well not at the time of writing but I'm so fickle that that could change quickly) but he may know about putting on make-up and looking a pratt but he doesn't know anything about coffee. And yes I do think there are too many Starbucks and Costa Jobbies around and I was very pleased to see one close and get replaced by a shirt shop where I bought a very nice shirt that lasts longer than the 30 cups of coffee it cost...but, at least they do know how to make nice, real coffee.

What a let down for Monday morning.

Mass Destruction

So, there were definitely, apsolutely, irrefutably no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Our crazed Prime Minister, Tony Blur, is saying "Sadam was thinking about creating WMD so we had to ignore the UN, side with that other zealot Bush and invade". Despicable.

I hear that some bloke in Cardiff is thinking about growing thermo-nuclear leeks and feeding them to the children of Wales thus creating Welshmen of Mass Destruction. Unfortunately, even Tony can't use this as an excuse to invade as Wales as Europrats missed Wales off their map of Europe.

Actually this is what is called a Victimless Crime as Wales doesn't want to be associated with Europe anyway.

Still Under Construction

Looking at my stats I notice a lot of apparent links from some random German website. The odd thing is the page deosn't exist and the main site (as linked above) says it is under constrcution. Reassuringly it also informs us that it will be ready on the 6th of August 2004. So, not too long to wait then.

Tired of Spam Entries

I have finally got fed up with the spam postings I get to this site. To fix this I have had to upgrade to the latest version on Movable Type which is the blogging software I use. After a few user errors on my part it is now working. Unfortunately the SPAM blacklister I use doesn't work and needed upgrading. But the documentation says it won't work with this latest version of the blogger. The other option is to remove it - which I think I have done ok. But that hasn't fixed everything.

The upshot is that you may not be able to post comments for a while until I work out what's wrong...

UPDATE: You can post now and I will moderate and approve later. The TypeKey feature doesn't work for me though. I have emailed Funky Dave to see if he can help.

LAST UPDATE: It all appears to work now. This means you can now not post comments to older entries (to reduce the spam I get) and I have to moderate your postings. However if you go to www.typekey.com and get a key (it only takes a few seconds) I can authorise you to post directly to the blog.