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A technical hitch

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And I’m back in the room or something. Sorry for that disruption in service, it seems that after gradually getting worse and worse over the last year the company Anonymong was hosted with finally went tits up. They decided that the best way to notify their customers of this impending doom wasn’t to actually e-mail them but to post to their support forum saying “you’ve got two weeks to save your data”. Oddly I missed this post as I’m not in the habit of checking support forums randomly, so was rather like putting an announcement “on display in the bottom … Continue reading →

Unhappy news

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If anyone reading this doesn’t already read Anna Racoons blog I suggest you get yourself over there and start catching up quick. Anna is about to have to go another bout in her fight against cancer her last update says they can operate but that will be rough and as always with such things carries risk. Her blog has to me been a fantastic example of what blogging and proper investigative reporting should be about, especially given the difficult topics she has tackled, and as Leg Iron says the real effect she has had out there in the real world. … Continue reading →

Analogies don’t get better

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Sometimes life smiles at you and the world creates the most wonderful of analogies. Yesterday as you may have read some Greenpeace protestors decide to climb the Shard. Which is a rather tall building and so presented something of a challenge. Fortunately they had mobile phones with them (presumably attached securely to them by lanyards to avoid endangering people below) and they tweeted about their expereince during the climb. The climb was apparently to protest against Shell drilling for oil in the arctic, not that Shell have offices in the shard, nor that the shard owners have anything to do … Continue reading →