June 6, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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Real world work busy. Combined with GTA IV in the limited downtime. No time for anything else, for the last few weeks I’m afraid. (Strange discovery yesterday – when I see New York in films or on the telly now, … Continue reading
May 21, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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It’s been radio silence here for a while. Sorry about that… Here’s some gubbins to make it look like I’m still alive… Continue reading
May 1, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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Due to hating the party system, today I shall take great pleasure in not voting based on the colour of the rosettes – not least because the Lib Dems have inexplicably adopted UKIP’s colour scheme of yellow and purple, making … Continue reading
April 15, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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Someone got in touch to ask some questions about citizen journalism and my coverage of the July 2005 London terrorist attacks… Continue reading
April 11, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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Unlock Democracy (an offshoot of Charter 88) are normally fairly good, nicely liberal chaps with a genuine desire to help. But I take serious, serious issue with their London Mayoroal election quiz, designed to determine which candidate you should vote … Continue reading
April 8, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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I’m getting a load of “you do not have permission to do that” errors and appear no longer to be able to add custom fields to posts, or edit their timestamps, which is somewhat irritating. What with Firefox also having … Continue reading
April 6, 2008
by Nosemonkey
Comments Off on A bit of admin
I’ve just upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress, so if anything’s gone weird, that’s why. Let me know if you spot anything – ta! Also, I’ve started filling out the country/region specialists part of the Nosemonkey’s EUtopia Netvibes Universe, … Continue reading
March 31, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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I feel somewhat out of place amongst such exalted company. Yep – that’s the Berlin Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, a BBC World Affairs Correspondent, the BBC’s Europe Editor Mark Mardell, the Europe Editor of the Economist, and me. … Continue reading
February 16, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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Nutty eurosceptics are always good for a giggle, but can be deeply frustrating for the more sensible anti-EU types, as Tory MEP Daniel Hannan has recently discovered following his (rather silly) expulsion from the EPP – and as those who … Continue reading
January 14, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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Late, as I’ve been out of the country for a while – and not that anyone’s reading this as my RSS feed is still screwed (and the site is still highly compromised by those bastard spammers) – but… Once I’ve … Continue reading
January 2, 2008
by Nosemonkey
Comments Off on Well that doesn’t seem to have worked
Damn. All the archives still appear to have vanished and RSS still isn’t working, despite a fresh Wordpress install. If anyone knows about MySQL and is willing to help me out, much appreciated, as I think there’s also a problem … Continue reading
January 1, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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There are several thousand pages hidden on jcm.org.uk promoting various dodgy drugs I’ve never heard of (e.g. http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/?page=14956, http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/?page=646). I have no idea how they got there, and can’t see them either via Wordpress or FTP. In addition, various underlying … Continue reading
January 1, 2008
by Nosemonkey
Comments Off on Next post less dull, honest
HNY all – sorry for the lack of posts. Some delightful types had managed to do something or other to one of the back-end php files that run this place (notably admin.php, though I’m sure there are less obvious ones … Continue reading
December 18, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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Earlier this morning I went to the cashpoint, only to discover £120 sticking out of the machine. No sign of anyone about, even after a couple of minutes of waiting. So, am I an idiot for picking up the money … Continue reading