Month: September 2006

Pointless spam

Pointless spam

Spam has always seemed mostly pointless to me, but the lengths that the spammers need to go to to get around spam filters just seems bizarre nowadays. I know that ‘Pharmaceutical’ is a difficult word to spell, but if I was going to buy some then I’d make sure that the people I was buying …

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A weekend with a Yamaha YZF-R1 – my review

A weekend with a Yamaha YZF-R1 – my review

I’ve just spent the weekend with a Yamaha YZF-R1 in my care. I’ve ridden a number of motorbikes now including most often a CBRE 600, but also a Honda Blackbird, a VFR 800 and, some time ago, a distant relative of the R1, the Fazer FZ6 600, but this is the first time I’ve taken …

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Tourist in second Outback rescue

Tourist in second Outback rescue

This guy sounds quite dim: after being rescued from the Australian outback after a four day search, he decided to go back to the same place because it seems he’d lost something there, so had to be rescued again. BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Tourist in second Outback rescue

Another reason why Abbey business banking is rubbish

Another reason why Abbey business banking is rubbish

Authentication and security: when people have forgotten their password, it’s quite common to ask them an answer something memorable, such as ‘City of birth’. But who on earth requires you to memorise not only the answer to your memorable question, but what the question is? Abbey do, of course.

Leyton Orient 1-1 Brentford

Leyton Orient 1-1 Brentford

Leyton Orient played Brentford at home yesterday hoping to pick up some much needed points to pull themselves close to the middle of the table. It was a highly entertaining game and Orient played very well throughout, all bar a few wobbles from the defence which eventually let in the goal which resulted in the …

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Advertising at Leyton Orient

Advertising at Leyton Orient

My web development company, Exponetic, have an advertising board up at Leyton Orient football ground this season. It all ties in with the Friends of the Orient business networking club which we’re in the process of rebuilding the site for. The idea behind Friends of the Orient is to bring businesses together to generate leads …

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Telegraph Fantasy Football password

Telegraph Fantasy Football password

This week we get an extra chance to make transfers, since there were no Premiership matches last week. And it’s a good job too as my team isn’t very good at the moment so with four transfers last week and another four this week hopefully it’ll be in better shape. Anyway, the transfer password for …

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