Archive > April 2007

Quick tip for anybody getting spammed

I’d noticed some spam comments slipping through the otherwise tight net provided by Akismet, only a couple a day but enough to get annoying.
So I dropped the links required for moderation to 1, added the following to my blacklist:
phentermine
ambien
hydrocodone
fioricet
viagra
tramadol
zithromax
and also required that each commenter have a previously approved comment.
Touch wood I’ve been spam free [...]

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There is a man in the village, his name is Tony and he is a NINJA!

Ninja Tunes, home to DJ Vadim, Coldcut, Roots Manuva and so many more great artists have started a monthly podcast series.
Skip the first one - pile of poo IMHO - but get your ears wrapped around the gorgeous half hour on Amon Tobin … the only man capable of taking Blue Jam’s bad sex and [...]

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Bigga is Bettta

Just got back from a rather shambolic lunch.
The plan was to head to the Dicq Shack, a fantastic little Thai cafe that sits right on the beach and does the most tremendous Thai curries … they were closed.
So the next port of call was the Hungry Man in Rozel. Unfortunately the guy driving didn’t know [...]

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Thinking about aspiration

It’s a funny one, the force that drives us to be more than we are.
Motivated by what I’m not too sure; greed? ambition? boredom?
But, the more I sit here and wonder where I’m supposed to be in the general scale of things the clearer it becomes in my mind: aspiration is a purely human concept [...]

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2 more good things…

… happened this weekend:

I managed to fit the new radiator to my bike (after breaking the old one on a Ford Fiesta). It took about 15 minutes to get the old rad off and abbout an hour and a half to get the new one on but having fully charged the system and tested it [...]

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