Random ramblings and ravings of Richy B
My other half just spotted a fox lurking around in our jungle garden that she’s recently been working her little heart out cleaning and getting into control.
It looks like the fox is familar with the garden area (even though the garden has been changing in the past few weeks) and we just wonder if we’ll see some more of it soon.
The BBC has an article entitled “What walking speeds say about us” and it does hit home for me – every morning, I get infuratated by people just getting in my way when I want to get from A to B. Events such as people walking along and then suddenly stopping (usually by a bus shelter so you can’t easily walk around them), weaving from one side to another (so you can’t over take them) and other similar events (do you really need to stand 2 foot away from a shop door?) really gets my blood pressure going in the morning.
Meh!
I’m just trying Amazon’s new AStore system and thought if you like my blog and are stuck on ideas what to get people for Christmas, then you may be interested in What I’ve recently purchased from Amazon UK for myself and my family…
Dunno if it’ll help, but it’s just been a “difficult to buy for” year this year and I’m sure others are as stuck as I was – so hopefully it’ll be helpful for somebody!
I started cleaning the house this morning/last night and since then, I’ve had the following:
* Kitchen sink blocked needing the piping to be removed and manually cleared
* Dishwasher flooding
* Half the ceiling of my “shed” (actually part of the house) fell down
* Boiler stopped working.
I think my house is trying to tell me “Cleaning me is not good!” 😀
According to the server this blog is hosted on, there’s been 101 emails processed today with 72 (71.3%) of those being detectable spam.
It doesn’t sound a lot until you consider one of our shared hosting servers has handled 22,251 so far today with 3,001 being low scoring spam (13.5%), 11,355 (51.0%) being high scoring spam and 583 (2.6%) being viruses. That’s 67.1% of emails having to be rejected as they are spam or viruses….
And that’s just the detectable spam – imagine what it’ll be like without sites such as Spamhaus (which is currently subject to a legal battle) helping the servers detect what is spam and what isn’t. Do you really want your InBox more than doubling in size due to spam?….