My Comments page now no longer shows email address’s on it. I don’t think it would be a problem as I’ve not had any spam come through to my (unique) email address that I had on the page. Still it’s hidden now. However I can still see it so I can contact you if necessary.

I use Spamcop to report incidents of the few spam that gets through my filters. However, The Bat plugin that I used had suddenly stopped working a few weeks ago. Took a few minutes this morning to get it working. Basically the “from” field in the email that they send you has changed and now has devnull.spamcop.net in (it didn’t use to have the devnull field in. Changing the Sender field to have the devnull string has made it all work!

Speaking of Amazon, it’s been so long since I placed my original order (1 month ago) that the goods are in danger of arriving whilst I am on holiday so I went to check the order. I then noticed that they are now doing a free shipping offer, saving me £4.50. I decided to recreate the order and then noticed that the totals were different! The Terry Pratchett Night Watch book was not £8.99 instead of £12.50 on the previous order and £17.99 rrp, but the Legally Blonde DVD had gone up to £15.99 instead of the bargain price of £9.99! Speaking of DVD’s we watched Ice Age last night which is hilarious. If you have not seen it yet, then it is very worth watching. The previews at the cinema looked really bad so we hadn’t gone to see it – but Kristen got the DVD from the library. Make sure you watch the extras on the disk as they are very similar to the Birds scene in Monsters Inc!

Since when has “Web Hawkins” had anything to do with “web hacking toolkit”? Don’t know? Better ask amazon then!

Newzcrawler have just come out with version 1.3.1 This is a good release as it now no longer pops up to say there is a new rss feed on the page if you are already subscribed to it! AND it doesn’t seem to crash as much when you close it.

A humungous picture of basil (400k) in gif format. I did a quick crop to get rid of the background but am too tired to neaten it up. That and the gif file looses the definition when saved for the web. I was hoping to get some good photos of him this morning as he was looking very cute – but most of the pictures came out too dark 🙁

Jerry has had his site ripped off by someone else. Sadly it seems to be a common occurance nowadays. One guy in the comments recommends leaving a spacer gif in your code that would get picked up in your referr logs. However thinking about it – it would only work if the gif was on another site and you also got logs for this site.Otherwise, when they mirrored your webpage they would also download the gif file from the original site.

A teenager who incidentally has a criminal record has won 9.5 million quid on the lottery. Amusingly various papers are complaining and saying its an outrage and that criminals should be barred. Just where are they going to draw the line though. Would you be banned from entering if you had a speeding ticket???? What difference does it make if you have a criminal record or not? If you are mad enough to buy a ticket and waste your money then so what?

Happy Guy Fawkes Day! In completely unrelated news, I’ve shaved the beard off!

Anyone use RoadRunner cable? When they came to install the service at my parents in law they said the pc would have to have windows removed and reinstalled. Sounds like a slope job to me! I could do with finding out why they reckon this is the case and what is missing. Ideas?