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This post was originally scheduled for Tue 15th but it seems to be raining spam out there in internet land.

By my estimates, today will see our 1,000th spam comment on this glorious website, so I thought I’d share a few words to mark the occasion…

Ahem…

Kindly f*ck off!

Sorry folks, I have very short patience for even commercial advertising, but comment spam is possibly the most annoying thing I’ve ever encountered (except Quentin Tarantino of course). So I want to finally set the record straight…

I don’t want to rent SEO services from a company who don’t have real email addresses, I don’t want to buy cheap pharmaceuticals online, I’m quite happy with the size of my penis, the quotes from books would be marginally interesting if I didn’t get each one three times, I’m not interested in seeing 40 links to spammy and virus infested sites, I don’t want to confirm my bank account details with you, I can’t help you transfer international funds, I don’t want a job receiving money, I’m not going to email you for pictures of naked celebrities and that massive post in Russian doesn’t even make sense in Russian.

… phew, did I miss anyone? Oh well.

I wonder if spammers get this much spam.

The Breakfast of Champions – a term originally used to describe any potentially nutritious breakfast cereal endorsed by a sporting hero, is now used to describe a completely ridiculous breakfast containing at least 2000 calories and boasting no nutritional value.

For example, ricycles and doughnuts cereal.

Dee-lish!

Because of my commitment to try every smartphone ever made, and because yet another apple problem had left me rubbing my sore and abused wallet. I have officially jumped off the Apple bandwagon and bought myself an HTC desire.

My iPhone is off to be recycled somewhere, may it rest in pieces.

While setting up my new mini server (Running Ubuntu server edition) I stumbled across what appears to be a semi common problem and, at length, I solved it.

Although I had configured my network interfaces and DNS servers I couldn’t connect to the internet. Specifically I couldn’t resolve hostnames like planet-nifty.co.uk and google.com. I could ping IP addresses inside my home network and IP addresses on the internet too, but pinging domain names like russwilde.com and I would get an error that the domain name couldn’t be resolved.

I must prefix this post with the confession that I know very little about Linux except what I’ve learned while playing around. If you’re playing around like me, be sure you’re well acquainted with the online support facilities – there’s a wealth of information in there.

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It’s always a pleasure to see some silliness from Adam Buxton. This super review of Joss Stone’s Baby Baby Baby is classic Buckles in his Ken Korda guise.

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