And so it came to pass

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UKIP hate crimeAs I don’t get to say I told you so very often I really couldn’t let this pass – even though it was ever so obvious. A while back I questioned the wisdom of expanding hate crime to all subcultures. I even made some pictures observing that it would include people that those calling for such an expansion might not like. My psychic skills were apparently working that day as a mere year down the road Kent police are investigating the vandalism of UKIP posters as… hate crime. I wonder if the young chap photographing himself burning UKIP signs will be also getting similar treatment? I expect those of us that burnt EU flags will do at some point.

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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 of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard'”.

There’s quite a kerfuffle about this amongst the ex-users of Textdrive, as quite a lot of us were caught out. As it was a paid for life service I’m not shocked it went bust and I really did get my moneys worth out of it with over 10 years of hosting, but am a teensy bit peeved at the lack of notice. Fortunately I did have a back up that wasn’t too ancient and I’ve been really lazy so far this year and not had a lot to say, or rather not had the time to say much. In fact it looking at my random posts on FaceBook I think I’ve been even quieter than I thought and haven’t lost anything.

I shall try to use this annoyance to give myself a boot up the arse and resume wasting electrons with my random ramblings once more.

There may be a few glitches lurking around over the next few days as I get things sorted out.

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Last week elsewhere

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Another week another round up of links, next trick remember to find time to write stuff in between link round ups. Hopefully I’ve resolved recent server issues otherwise I need to change where I host this.

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