Adoption section to be password protected for future posts
I am testing password protection on the Adoption section of my site, so that only people I want to, can read posts about my adoption search, and family issues. I’ve tested using an old post and it seems to work ok, so future posts will be private, and access restricted to people who I don’t want reading my thoughts etc on being adopted and finding my birth family.
Leave a comment here if you would like to be included on the mailing list for the passwords.
An example of the stupidity and greed of the music industry
Universal have just opened an online music store called Lost Tunes – all tracks are DRM free and recorded at 320kbps in the MP3 format – they cost 99p per track.
A quick example of their own greed, and the biggest reason why people might download ‘illegally’.
The Moody Blues: Live at the BBC
Lost Tunes price – £16.99 and you presumably have to burn you own CDs, print artwork etc
Play.com – £9.99 (RRP is £13.99) with free postage and you obviously get something physical
It’s not rocket science is it, really?
I was looking on the internet and found this….
If you watch the BBC show Top Gear you will be familiar with the title of this post.
Basically whenever Jeremy Clarkson says
I was looking on the internet and found this
the camera pans away, and the studio all start laughing. We never see what he found that was so funny, which is the joke I guess, but aways kind of assume it was disgusting in some way (or is that just me?)
The BPI is dead, long live the music !
Last week the BPI and the major UK ISPs drew up an agreement, that will see the BPI passing details of file-sharers to their ISP, and the ISP sending a letter to teh file-sharer reprimanding them for sharing copyrighted material. The BPI of course wants stronger measures such as cutting users off, but the ISPs are naturally wary of divesting themselves of customers.
Despite the evidence that shows file-sharing is actually increasing the sales of certain music ( http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/ ) the BPI and it’s members insist on punishing it’s own customers. Today I realised where I had seen similar actions, in the fantasy books that I read, where large empires that have grown too fat and stagnated, start to crumble, only for the Emperor to use his armies to crush rebellion underfoot.
New WordPress spam filter on test
The spam filter I was using blocked Rod from posting a comment ( ha ha ha ha ha ha ha – sorry Rod 
) so I’ve switched to a new one which use a Captcha system.
If it decides that a comment you are postinng is spam, it will ask you to type in two words into a box.
Please test if you can
Currently blocks comments with more than 2 URLs, and a list of banned words.
Horncastle Town Hall is SAVED!!
Sorry about the headline, but a resounding 10 to 1 vote to save Horncastle Town Hall must be seen as a victory, or must it?
The vote ended with just over 1000 residents voting to save, and just over 100 residents voting to demolish. Unfortunately it is my belief that all this vote has done is give East Lindsey District Council the ammunition with which to torpedo the poll results.
You see, those votes count for only 21% of the voting population of Horncastle, so it seems that over three quarters of the adults in Horncastle that are registered to vote, are actually indifferent to what happens to the town hall. As the cost of refurbishing will no doubt be added to the Council Tax, ELDC will, in my opinion, simply ask the question:
Should the majority of Horncastle residents have to pay for something, that only twenty percent of the ‘community’ actually care about?
Knock Off Nigel isn’t a thief at all.
Who’s Knock Off Nigel you ask?
He’s the ‘victim’ in a series of ads, who downloads films (oooer!!!) that he doesn’t have he right to. According to the ads he also steals from whip rounds, and other people’s milk from the fridge. Here’s the ad at YouTube.
Useful sites for tracing birth relatives and finding parents but the information can be perilous
Trying to find a person used to involve hiring private detectives, but the internet has changed that, at least for the basic tracing of a person. Everything you find is reliant on the quality of the information that you have to input, and whether the person you are looking for has taken any basic steps to become anonymous.
Horncastle Town Hall, voting tomorrow, but what for?
The town of Horncastle goes to the polls tomorrow, to vote on whether to save and re-furbish our town hall, or sell it to developers, and spend the money elsewhere in Lincolnshire (but very probably not in Horncastle).
So far there has been very little information on what the Save Horncastle Town Hall brigade actually plan to do that is different. Indeed the only service that I can see will be truly missed, is when the Blood Donor bus sets up in there. What exactly are we voting to save?
