As John Keats once wrote, it is the Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness.
Yes, autumn is upon us, and today we had the first real spell of fog.
On the one hand you have the beauty of looking down from higher ground at the sun shining across the fog blanketing the lower lying ground, but on the other you have the idiots who don’t know how to drive in the fog.
I cannot believe the number of people driving with no lights at all. Are these people stupid?
At the other end of the scale you have the people who, at the slightest sign of mist, switch their rear fog lights on and dazzle all who follow, blotting out any hope of seeing their brake lights. Strangely, these people also tend to keep driving at 70-80mph on the motorway, presumably believing that by flicking that little switch they are protected, but resulting in a motorway pileup.
No doubt, on the drive home this evening, the fog will be gone, but these same drivers will still have their fog lights on from this morning.
While browsing Thinkgeek, looking for some interesting stuff, (but remembering that those nice people at DHL will so kindly declare it to Customs and Excise for me and thereby double the price), I found this T-Shirt.
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Last week, after still receiving no further word from Linksys about the RMA procedure, I emailed to find out what was going on, but got no reply.
Last Friday, I got a note through the door saying that UPS had tried to make a delivery. I was confused by this, because they hadn’t even arranged to pick up my old defunct router. Did they really mean delivery, or did they mean to put pickup? If so, then I was still waiting for the address label to be emailed.
Two things then happened today:
- I finally got an email from UPS containing a link to an electronic mailing label, which I needed to put on the old router.
- UPS delivered a brand new shrink wrapped replacement router
Fortunately, this has given me a box to return the old router. Just got to get UPS to come out again to pick it up.
I’ve had a Linksys WRT54G wireless router since 2003, but last Wednesday, it just died with no front panel lights.
The LED was still lit on the power pack, but nothing whatsoever from the router. I remembered reading somewhere that Linksys gear has a three year warranty, so I called the freephone number on the Linksys UK website. This connected through to the US, and although the line was bad, and the tech support guy’s accent was difficult to understand, he processed an RMA return. Unfortunately, I’m still waiting for an email telling me where to send the router for replacement.
In the meantime, expecting a long wait for a replacement, I ordered a new WRT54GS router from amazon.co.uk on Friday, which was despatched same day by Royal Mail ‘first class’, so you’d think I should have received it on Monday. Not so. It didn’t even come on Tuesday. It finally arrived today. Once again, Royal Mail have proved their inability to provide a decent service.
So the Environment Agency has commissioned a survey and come out with the statement that up to 41% of people in the UK are unaware of the risk of flooding to their homes.
So who holds this information about who’s at risk of flooding? Guess what, it’s the Environment Agency.
The blindingly obvious question is: Why doesn’t the Environment Agency just tell these people they are at risk – problem solved without wasting time and tax payers’ money on pointless surveys?
Another case of bad spelling. This means that sign maker has not checked it before leaving the works, and the owner hasn’t checked it before putting it up.
Here is an excellent interactive map of Europe from the BBC, showing the changes over the last 100 years.
This is the sort of thing which should be taught in school.
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Added some more pics in the ‘About Horwich‘ section of our gallery.
Ever wondered where all that spam is coming from? Take a look at Mailinator’s Spam Map.
They have mapped the geo-lookup of the IP addresses in their received spam against google‘s maps.
Doesn’t seem to be much there at the moment, and I suppose that distributed bot nets won’t show up because they wouldn’t make it into the top list.
I was surprised to see the one in London was one of uk2.net‘s mail servers.
Postscript: Brian Pipa who wrote the code for the Spam Map contacted me about the above image, asking which browser/OS was used (Mac OS X/Safari), as the formatting was not as it should look.
