Diary: February 2005
I have just been on holiday to Geneva. The first thing that most people have said when I tell them is 'Why?', so I will explain.
A couple of weeks ago, I persuaded Leela that a short holiday was in order. The only question was where to go - and she left that up to me to surprise her. I started with a long list, but since we only had 4 days including travel I had to take off places such as Peru and Australia because we'd only be able to get off the plane, walk outside and smile at ...
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I came back to Sevenoaks on Sunday for a meeting today - on the way to the meeting at about 11.15, I drove past a pub that was on fire. The meeting went well, and the person from the publisher took us out for lunch which was very pleasant, I met with some other people, and then left at about 5.20. On the way back I drove past the same pub - still lots of fire engines and they were still pumping water into the building. There's a BBC news article about it here. Anyway, I'd left radio ...
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Why does hardly anyone comment any more? Maybe it's just because nobody reads this. Oh well, I won't let a little thing like that stop me!
So, my haircut at 8.45 on Tuesday didn't happen. My hairdresser and I have an on-going joke about how I'm always late, so I decided to surprise him and left half an hour early. Only I got stuck in the biggest traffic jam on earth, which started at the end of my road. At one point, I didn't even move for 10 minutes, which sucked. Took me all ...
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Why do spammers try so hard to avoid anti-spam measures in order to contact the people who are least likely to buy anything from them?
Yes, I know that large ISPs and webmail services have lots of anti-spam measures, and that they're the target audience, but really can't they realise that sending me 6000 spams a day isn't going to change my mind? I'm not going to suddenly think "Hey, I've got a spare afternoon, I'll just go through my inbox and see if there's anything there I can buy." They should just ...
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