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If you (like me) had your computing introduction on 8bit "home" computers that plugged into the telly and used tape as a high-capacity storage medium, you might like this…

Now then, here’s an interesting story, Lycos have launched a new anti-spam screensaver, which apparently targets the domains of companies selling those products advertised by spam emails in order to use up large amounts of their bandwidth, and attempt to force them to incur large charges from their hosting provider.

I’ve not directly linked to the site holding the screensaver, as I believe it could well be illegal - it’s certainly a very similar proposition to a virus writer co-ordinating a Distributed Denial of Service attack on a company.

Now, I’m not saying that spam is good, or that I am on the side of the spammers in this - I’m not - I hate spam email as much as anyone else. However, I’m also not sure that Lycos haven’t gone too far in this battle against the spammers.

See This Story from BBC News…

Following my recent holiday in sunny Florida, as well as a photo gallery here are some of the highlights and surprises of the trip for me… Continue Reading »

I’ve been looking through the internet archive, and found some of my early websites there. Note some of these archives sites simply don’t work properly!

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Well, I’ve finally gotten round to it - I’ve posted several Galleries of Photos from my recent trip to the theme parks of central Florida.

Now it appears that a major site (The Register) has had a problem with an advertising partner, resulting in infections of a virus onto IE (pre XP SP2)

If that doesn’t pursuade you to use something else which can’t be exploited in this way, then nothing will. Continue Reading »

There’s now a website at http://www.sorryeverybody.com/ set up because Continue Reading »