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Dear Akismet, I have a small suggestion which will improve your usually amazing comment spam-killing abilities by several orders of magnitude. In the spirit of open source, I won’t be charging you for my advice. If a comment has the phrase “ugg boots” anywhere at all – including in the person’s name, email address or website fields, it’s spam. No-one needs to make a manual decision about deleting it. Yours, etc. p.s. What are “ugg boots”, anyway? I’ve been catching up with a bit of note making today by finishing off my scribbles on the attitudes chapter of the critical readings book. As I was reading it, I was reminded of an old episode of “Yes Minister” where Sir Humphrey demonstrates that depending on the sequence of questions being asked (or the context, as Potter and Wetherell might call it), the same person can appear to have an entirely different and contradictory attitude in response to the same question “are you in favour of reintroducing national service?”
1-0 to the discursive psychologists I think! . . . → Read More: DD307 – Attitudes I thought that might get your attention! The truth is probably far simpler. Earlier on today, I was searching the DEFRA website for a piece of information I needed and found a small typo in the footer on the (temporary?) ww2.defra.gov.uk domain. One too many s’s in the statement: “Our delivery organisations implements our policies” methinks. Typo in the DEFRA website footer, 29th September 2010 Being a public spirited sort of a chap, I thought I’d report it to them, but it’s not particularly obvious who to contact. So being nosey, I went over to Netcraft to see what . . . → Read More: Have French farmers kidnapped the DEFRA website? Other than the surge in support the Liberal Democrats received in the polls after the first leaders debate, one of the things that’s most striking about the general election this time around is the sheer creativity that’s been expressed in blogs, twitter and YouTube by “unofficial” sources. Not that long ago, probably the most creative campaigning you saw was John Cleese making party political broadcasts on behalf of the SDP-Liberal Alliance (we must have had longer attention spans in the 80′s – it’s 10 minutes long!) If you want to relive 1987, the video is below: So, this time . . . → Read More: Brown, Cameron or Clegg? – part 2 As the general election campaign gets underway, I want to offer you an alternative. Why not vote Norwegian? (Warning: this video is probably politically incorrect in 2010 …) What’s just as funny are some of the humourless comments on this video on YouTube. Point missed, I think. I’ve just noticed something interesting on the eTMA system for this year’s course. And before anyone asks, I’ve just checked to see if my mark for TMA06 is back, which of course it can’t be because the submission deadline hasn’t passed yet, but it doesn’t stop me checking. I’m not obsessed at all. Definitely not. My assignment scores are strongly correlated to the time of day I submitted them. My lowest assignment score was submitted earliest at about 6.20pm; my highest score was submitted latest at about 10.30pm. I hadn’t noticed this before I submitted TMA06, but on that basis . . . → Read More: Correlation – or cause and effect? Not websites about holidays. Just ones that make me smile, seeing as I’m definitely in the holiday mood at the moment … 1. Fail blog. Sometimes a bit hit and miss (in fact, usually more miss than hit if I’m honest), but the gems are worth searching out. 2. Millennium Elephant. A fluffy toy who talks far more sense than most politicians. Also lives with a daddy who has a Dr. Who fixation (sigh). 3. Private Eye. Not as funny as it used to be. Or was that Punch? 4. Backmasking. I was introduced to this by one of the . . . → Read More: Holiday websites  |
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