If you want to know who’s offering the best discounts on mobile phones, or perhaps where the UK’s best Dogging locations are then you had better ask me. I am now the world’s epicentre for this kind of essential information. Whilst others prefer to study the arts or the sciences, I can tell you which car-park to go to to watch old people people have sex.
Why is this, you may be wondering? It’s because I am the lucky recipient of mobile phone spam; the closest thing our generation will ever have to telepathy. Despite my protestations, opting out and threats of lawyering, companies continue to bless me with their text-based advice. In order to share my bounty of text spams, I have put together a compendium on this site: The Spamwiki.
Speaking of which, it’s been a few months since Gary Oakes, general manager of MobileUpd8 (a.k.a. MobileUpdateCo ) threatened me with litigation for calling his company a no-good bunch of spammers on my old Wiki site. So to celebrate my current freedom I urge you to have a look at my new SpamWiki and contribute any information you can.
I get new words sent to my email every day. Today’s word (phrase) was Roman Holiday. It is a toponym, which means it is derived from a place name. According to Wordsmith it means-
An entertainment event where pleasure is derived from watching gore
and barbarism.
This reminds me very much of the series Gladiators which was laughable pre-pub television in the UK during the mid- to late-nineties. The American version of the show, American Gladiators [*] was strangely cheaper-looking than the UK show, being set in a smaller arena (the UK version was set in the Birmingham NEC). American Gladiators’ rampant stupidity and the braying jingoism of the crowd and commentators moved a friend of mine to call it an “Al-Qaeda recruitment video.”
[*] Note the review at the bottom of the Imdb page says “Siren seems normal in every way except for the fact that she can’t hear but she could use her other senses , sight; taste and smell“. (My italics.)
A month after we all agreed to standardise on Zope as our content management system, One of my clients (for some inexplicable reason), has decided to standardise on RHEL3 as the company-wide Linux platform. That would be just great were it not for the fact that no Red-Hat distribution ever (even Fedora) has ever supported any version of Zope, or endorses the use of the Python programming language for anything other than their own up2date rpm management utilities.
The long awaited sequel to Resonance FM’s ‘Exciting Hellebore Shew‘ is now archived. You can hear shows 1 to 8 of ‘Epistaxis Time‘ on the archive, and catch this week’s show on Resonance FM.
the word ‘Epistaxis’ referrs to an acute heamorrage of the nostril.