An email today from marketing@webmailserver.co.uk and/or simong@megabyte-data.email and/or sales@megabyte-data.co.uk offering to sell me spam lists. Pity they’re so bad they couldn’t even spell their email disclaimer correctly: “The informatnion contained in this email is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information and if […]

Yes, they’re at it too. Debbie Docherty‘s happy smiling face pretty much every day on yet another spam email.

It looks like Andrew Charlton has bought himself a spammer’s mailing list and is happily churning out spams about events no-one cares about. And then of course he adds the usual lies at the bottom of each email to pretend it’s legitimate: “You received this email because you subscribed to our list and have opted […]

After yet another Spam from our old friends Emailmovers – who have a history of playing fast and loose with the law when it comes to Spam (see for instance this post and this article) – I have today decided that it is time to report them to the ICO to see if they’ll slap these spammers […]

Whilst checking my Spam folder earlier, I found one sent direct to one of my email addresses by our old friends Emailmovers who have a history of playing fast and loose with the law when it comes to Spam (see for instance this post and this article). “See how Emailmovers can help you with your marketing post […]

Way back in the mists of time, I wrote a bit about how Southwark Council had decided to make traffic congestion worse on Jamaica Road, SE London by stopping local drivers from using a ‘rat-run’.  Their consultation paper – sent to a tiny minority of extremely localised people – asked a series of heavily biased […]

More spam received this morning. This time from Textlocal – al@txtlocal.com – advertising Travis Perkins’ trade accounts: Opening a Travis Perkins account is quick and easy, simply visit https://tx.vc/{tracking URL removed} and start trading today! Optout: Text TPSTOP to 60777 They’ve suggested via Twitter that I direct message them my number so they can opt me […]

So once upon a time, a friend who was dying from Motor Neurone Disease wrote a blog about living with the disease. This was a full and frank discussion of the issues, his treatments and his observations. It’s a moving story. Anyway, one entry mentions – briefly – a food supplement called “Ambrotose”: “One of […]

On 20th July 2014, a blanket speed limit of 20mph was introduced in the City of London: Why did they decide to do that? It was apparently part of their “Road Danger Reduction Plan“. And yet, reading that, it’s not speed that’s the issue with the highest at-risk groups of cyclists, pedestrians and motorcyclists. Cyclists: […]

Even typing that title reminded me that with such epic organisations, the degree of fuckwittery would be of epic proportions. And so it is with Southwark Council’s “Council Tax Single Person Discount Review” letter which threatens to withdraw the discount if you don’t reply within 14 days. “We are using an external agency to assist […]

…or why football is utter bollocks. There’s a bit of a hoo-ha about holding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar at the moment. It seems that people have just realised that with the World Cup taking place in the summer months (North of the Equator, anyway), it might be a little warm in the desert […]

The other day I was “making good progress” and was stopped by a Suffolk Constabulary PC who gave me a fixed penalty for the offence. We won’t even go to the whole “speed kills” bollocks (even the PC said my driving was exemplary but over the limit). I was pleased that they’ve moved with the […]

How to win friends and influence people … or how to lose your best customers. My debit card is shortly to run out of validity. I hadn’t received my new one so I rang them the other day to ask where it was. “Don’t worry,” they said, “they’re usually sent out a fortnight or so […]

Or “How To Dramatically Reduce the Number of  Complaints We Have to Deal With”. Humberside Police – locally referred to as “Blunderside Police” – have a section on their website about how complaints against them are handled.  This includes this part: Complaints can be made either in person at a police station, generally to an […]

Jamaica Road in SE London can be a bit of a nightmare at peak times: what is a dual carriageway both ways was transformed a few years back to be a permanent bus lane on each carriageway (with stupid bus lane signs that tell you’re not allowed in them Monday to Sunday at any time […]

So the press, including the Eenig Stannurd and Daily Heil, have been keen to capitalise (see what I did there?) on the apparent madness of Bus Lanes – from which ordinary motorists are banned at certain times of the day (including those bizarrely signed as being in operation all day from Monday to Sunday, i.e. […]

Yet more fuckwittery from TFL and LOCOG, I presume: this time it’s the Olympic Route Network which shows the already-busy routes that will be completely messed up by bussing all the VIPs around in their 4,000 chauffeured BMWs – oh and maybe one or two athletes who aren’t staying on site at the Villages for some […]

I’ve pointed out previously that the last place anyone living in London should want to be in August 2012 will be London whilst the London Olympics is on as it’ll be chaos. This week, there’s been news about locations for missile batteries in the East End as well. Presumably there to protect the £24bn “investment” […]

One of the good things about my two iPhones – three if you count the work one – has been the way the time gets updated whenever I turn them on in a new country I visit.  Indeed, when I was in Vienna last week, I was saying just that to a colleague. And then […]

So we had a new Budget with the Chancellor, Gideon, heralding things that won’t happen for another year in the hope that we will assume he means April 2012 when he refers to “next April” when in fact it’s April 2013. But apart from that, the Government continue to bang on about everyone paying their […]