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Website was hacked on Friday. Not the sort of hacking I’ve ever seen before either. Previous hackings have left a datestamp on a file, so I could remove malicious code by looking at which files have recently changed, but this … Continue reading →

Anyone getting off a plane at Heathrow and getting into London via the M4 is doomed at the moment. Olympic VIPs and athletes especially. I, as a Londoner am ********************** off at Olympic VIPs able to VIP past me in … Continue reading →

Times are hard in the UK at the moment and retailers are having to adapt. The glut of empty shops is, it seems, producing some strange results, with many retailers occupying more than one shop on the same high street. … Continue reading →

Bob Diamond, ex of Barclays bank, has just agreed to forgo his bonus of many millions of pounds. Frankly, this is the last yellow gesture of a reject. A true hero would have taken it and spent it on dynamite … Continue reading →

I just saw a naked runner on tv tasered for refusing to stop And there was the newspaper seller (now the subject of a criminal trial) pulled over and killed in the street. And the teenager pushed off his bike … Continue reading →

The Queen visited my home town in 1977 during her silver jubilee, she having reigned over England (and me) for 25 years. I BOOED (AND LATER I POOED, THINKING OF HER. I was 9 years old at the time. All … Continue reading →

I registered as a business on Saturday. I just got this certificate of incorporation by email.

Andy Murray has continued a long tradition, maintained by footballers and tennis players, of almost but not quite almost winning something somewhere. In the true tradition of British sporting failures he almost but not quite managed to but some foreign … Continue reading →

After IBM, Microsoft and Apple tried and failed to corner the market in everything electronic, now Google are having a go. Not only are they promoting email, operating systems and browsers, now they are tracking behaviour on the internewt to … Continue reading →

I just registered as a a private limited company, and my whole life and associated excpenses is, in part at least, tax deductible. I can’t help thinking that this is exactly the sort of accounting fiction that can change liabilities … Continue reading →