The Welsh Conservative party area office in Delyn, Flintshire (“I’m the only Tory in the village.”) allowed their old domain name to lapse, and when regular visitors went back they found it had been hijacked by a porn site.
If Wales were to get its own top level domain, the suffix would probably be .cym- pronounced “dot cum”- which could give .xxx a run for its money I guess.
It’s alright having a computer looking case for your pet, but isn’t it better if you play with it and exercise it a little.
You are a Playboy. You perv.
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And I thought I’d be a hippy.
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MP Idol, anyone. I wish I’d heard about this sooner, because I have some strong views about reforming benefits at the moment. Specifically, if they want people to stop working the black economy, why am I being punished for being honest with them and telling them I’ve got a part time job?
Because the University is too useless to ensure that I get my payslips, I’ve had all my benefits stopped because I have to present every payslip to the Jobcentre before they’ll decide how much money to deduct from me. Because the JC has put a stop on my money, Housing Benefit has put a stop on their payments and I’m worse off than if I hadn’t tried to make things better for myself. Less honest people would turn around and say “Fuck it, gimme cash in hand”.
I’m waiting for a call about full time work, so this should become a problem of the past soon. But I really ought to write a letter to my MP or my pal Tony asking why the people setting the rules for benefits so obviously don’t have a clue how the real world works.
Bizarreness from the referral logs. How does Spinneyhead, along with Tameside MBC and Simon Jones, get to be listed in the recommended links of Club X Date, an adult dating site?
I’ll take traffic from wherever, I’m just wondering……
No, I’m not telling you how many candles.
Just to annoy me on my birthday, my printer has gone insane and something wiped all my Firefox bookmarks. Managed to import the old bookmarks from IE, but I’ll still have lost a few links. The printer remains screwed up and prints page after page with just a few lines of what looks like code, but is probably gibberish, at the top of each page. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, which does nothing, and the diagnostics won’t help me because they think it’s disconnected. Grrrr.
I’m bringing all the Sounds of Soldiers posts back into Spinneyhead central, just like I did with Heavensent. When I’m finished there’ll just be the main blog and the eco-blog (and maybe an international blog, but more on that as it develops.
The mother of all eco-houses, Biosphere 2, is up for sale. Biosphere 2 was an experiment in creating an entirely sealed and self contained environment, the sort of thing required for long term moon bases or even that staple of science fiction the generation ship. The project couldn’t really be called a success, but has been used as a centre for study.
Well, concrete and Tarmac actually. Two new products have been added to Spinneyhead Scale. The idea is simple enough. Model railway builders need to create surfaces for their roads. They could paint them or they could buy some of the specially printed sheets that are available, which would get expensive for a large surface. Now there’s another option. Buy these files and print as much road as you require. Supplementary images- road markings etc. will be coming along at some point, and I may have some physical products to add later today.
Johnny Buck is at a farm/ biodiesel refinery and has decided to post a video about his first few days. I wonder if there’s an equivalent establishment in the UK?
Yes, I admit it, I watch Jerry Springer the Opera last night. Quite funny. But let’s face it, i wouldn’t have even known it was on if not for the umpteen thousand complaints.
A few more pictures from the December gallery.
This day in Spinneyhead history. January 8th 2002. January 8th 2003. January 8th 2004.
The wonderful world of sheep on EBay.
This was sent to me by a good friend, who may want to remain nameless.
So let the haggis hunt begin.
:o)
This week’s theme is Silhouette, and I had to wait until now to put it up because it needed collecting from Boots.
I liked this one so much that it’s available as postcards through Cafe Press.
Aeroplane and other manufacturers demand royalties from model companies wishing to depict their products in miniature. This is fine for their commercial vehicles, argues Internet Modeller, but now they are increasingly demanding money to use the names and likenesses of their military creations. IM’s argument is that the names of the military’s toys are public domain as the taxpayer, through the government, paid for the development and acquisition of such things as the F22 rather than the companies that went on to build it.
No doubt this licencing issue also exists for video games, but will it extend to authors wishing to be the next Clancy? Are the B-52s and U2 going to get backdated demands for royalties?
A treasure trove of films from the early 1900s, depicting life in Northern industrial towns, is on tour after being discovered in an empty shop and carefully restored. The films are mostly “factory gate” shorts, shown a few days after shooting in the same town so people could marvel at seeing themselves moving on screen, but contain hours of social history as well.
I think it’s time to start having food delivered to the house again (and I don’t mean pizzas.) Northern Harvest does an enticing range of free range and organic meats as well as veg, bread and other stuff.
