Tag Archives: Inane

Colorado State Government

By Mark | Published: 20:11 Wednesday 3 Dec 2008
This is the dumbest, most inane and frankly stupid thing I have read all year . http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/trash-your-ex-on-craigslist-go-directly-to-jail The pertinent point: “The Colorado law bans statements “tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead” or that “impeach the honesty, integrity, virtue, or reputation or expose the natural defects of one who is alive.” This [...]
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Smoke-free Rampton?

By Mark | Published: 16:52 Tuesday 20 May 2008
High Court judges have ruled psychiatric patients should not be allowed to smoke at a high security mental hospital. “There is very strong evidence that smoking causes disease and endangers the health of the smokers themselves and other people who live and work in their vicinity. BBC You can’t argue with the danger to others, [...]
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Safari reboot

By Mark | Published: 23:41 Thursday 17 Apr 2008
The system wanted to upgrade Safari, so I just clicked the little button and carried on in Firefox. The next thing I know is that the computer needs to be rebooted. That’s a whole OS to be rebooted JUST for a browser. If Microsoft did that for IE the mac fanboys – and other mac [...]
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The domain name thing

By Mark | Published: 15:02 Monday 3 Mar 2008
The domain name saga continues. I sent Nominet the surrender form and in a day or so i will no longer own that domain which has been at the centre of the trademark dispute. 5 minutes after Nominet remove me, anyone at all can buy that name. At which point regardless of what the new [...]
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