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Centurion Mk II

Posted by on June 14th 2009 in Congratulations!, Just for fun
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Congratulations go to Duncan/Aktoman, who upped his tally of comments to the 100 mark last week, thus earning himself this special mention.

Although I've got a suitable picture of him, I thought that this one would be better:

A handy little runaround for the outdoors type, no?

Spam Reduction revisited

Posted by on June 6th 2009 in Plugins, Site update

Last month I went into some detail about the measures that I've taken to reduce the amount of comment-spam. Despite all of the protection in force, a few hardy YSMs have managed to get through the barricade. Not many, and not a lot to be worried about.

Nevertheless, there's no harm in strengthening the defences.

The upshot of this is that for the last week or so I've been trying out the WP-SpamFree plugin and I can confirm that it's caught every scrap of spam since installation. It's got a few nice bells and whistles such as logging options and the facility to set up safe contact form (I'm not using this yet), so it's worth a look-see.

Just how long it'll take for the malevolents to figure a way around it remains to be seen, so I'll keep you posted.

Steering committee

Posted by on June 6th 2009 in Car stuff, LMAO!, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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Clever folks, them furriners:

 

 

Cheers, Mick

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Observatory progress – Phase 6 – It works!

Posted by on May 29th 2009 in Astrostuff, Making stuff, Projects

Observatory progress – Phase 6 continued

Posted by on May 29th 2009 in Astrostuff, Making stuff, Projects

Yep, it fits, purlins and all:

 

 

 

Tomorrow I’ll get more nails for it and fix it on properly.

It’s the Lidl things that matter

Posted by on May 28th 2009 in Just for fun

Ex-leper Alms for an ex-leper. Spare a talent for an old ex-leper?

Mandy Buzz off.

Ex-leper Spare a talent for an old ex-leper?

Mandy A talent? That's more than he earns in a month! 

Ex-leper Half a talent then?

Mandy Now go away!

Ex-leper Come on big nose, let's haggle!

Brian What?! 

Ex-leper All right, cut the haggling. Say you open at one shekel, I start at two thousand, we close about eighteenhundred.

I'm sure that you know the rest.

Shekel

Shackle

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