Category: Community Interest
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Bombs in London again
Bombers have attacked London again at 4 locations – news reports are just coming in – see BBC News or Sky News for more. Initial reports are suggesting that this attack is not as serious as the attack 2 weeks ago. Tag: London Explosions
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Funny cartoons in the making
If you are a fan of cartoons, FrankP has posted a fascinating post on how he puts together the funny cartoons on Bifsniff.com – well worth a look.
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Mrs ESTHER ROBERTS – is a scammer!
I received the following 419 scam email yesterday: From:Mrs ESTHER ROBERTS Address:Avenue 44 Rue 12 Treichtown Lot 87 Marcory Cocody 1863 Abidjan,Cote D’Ivoire,West Africa Respectfull one, Good a thing to write you. I have a proposal for you-this however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will.…
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BBC puts Beethovan's symphonies online
Thanks to Jeremy – I spotted that the BBC are going to put all nine of Beethovan’s symphonies online in mp3 format for free download. All the symphonies are performed by BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Currently the first five symphonies are online here with the next four being put online between now and…
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Senior Irish civil servant starts blog
Brendan Tuohy is Secretary General of the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources here in Ireland. This would make him one of Ireland’s most senior civil servants. Furthermore, the Communications section of the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources has responsibility for e-Commerce, the Group Broadband Scheme, and Communication Development. Interestingly, I read…
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How to get positive results from calls to support hotlines/callcentres
I have a method I use when calling support hotlines which rarely fails to get me a positive outcome from the call – I call it the Squeaky Wheel method (remember the squeaky wheel is the one which gets the attention). At all times using this method I ensure that I remain completely polite but…
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Seatbelts on school buses?
We have had a terrible tragedy here – a school bus swerved while apparantly trying to avoid a previous crash, went out of control, overturned and five schoolgirl passengers were killed (and 46 passengers were injured). Since the crash, there has been a lot of debate around the fact that there were no seat belts…
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How to pick any lock in seconds
Lockpicking is the art of opening a lock without damaging it or using a key – and recently lockpicking has become a sport with clubs and championships. Who knew? One such club is TOOOL (The Open Organisation of Lockpickers). One of the founding members of this organisation is Barry Wels whose video on how to…