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Devil's Kitchen: Aren't Apple computers great? I own shares in them!

Oh, by the way, did I mention that I own Apple shares?





DISCLAIMER: DK owns Apple shares. Which have made him a lot of money since February.



Warning:  Contains traces of Apple shares. External use only. May cause drowsiness and nausea if ingested


Disclaimer: Mr P ate some apple pie once, and half an apple turnover. They were very good.


UPDATE: Hats off to DK for finding this amusing and taking it well, and yes I am a 'bitch'.

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Pickled Politic’s Sunny Hundal was on More4 News earlier this evening discussing the Case of the Fat Uzbek.

The interviewer clearly had done little research and just presented the claims of  the fat man and his henchmen as  fact. Having said that the fairest thing I can say about  Sunny's performance is that it was a missed opportunity. But make your own mind up. The interview starts at 1.00 minute:




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Mirror and Back-Up

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One thing I noticed about the take down by Fasthosts (see below) is that Craig Murray thinks he may have lost most of his content. I would have thought that Fasthosts would be  obliged to give users an opportunity to save their files before the final switch off but it seems not.

All my content on Squarespace is regularly saved in a MovableType-compatible format and sits safely on my external hard drive. If I were particularly concerned to keep my content available online I could also easily mirror to another site or bookmark to something like Del.icio.us.


There has also been a flurry of comment on libel law and on the question of US versus UK servers. The situation, as I understand it is this: US web hosting companies are not considered publishers or authors of the material hosted on their servers and cannot, therefore be sued in the US or anywhere else because of material uploaded by their customers .  However a  blogger, posting from the UK or anywhere else could be held liable in a British court for any content uploaded to any server wherever it is located. So if, like me, you use US based servers you are unlikely to get taken down in the manner of Fasthosts but you could get a libel writ landing on your mat. Although, it has to be said that up to now it's been the threat of legal action, whether from Paul Staines or the Uzbek Lumbertubs, that has done the trick rather than any courtroom decision.



Avoid upsetting ugly, lardarsed Russians?

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Chicken Yoghurt » Public Service Announcement
Tim Ireland’s Bloggerheads site is currently down after his webhost pulled the plug. You can thank the latest Russian (that should be Uzbek) billionaire to reach the UK. The details will come out in due course.

Tim’s currently also without email so if anyone needs to get hold of him, I’m happy to be the go-between and pass on any message by phone. My email address is at the top of the page.

This also means that the family of websites that Tim and Clive (whose site -The UK Today - is also down) look after are also currently AWOL. So if you’re missing the online presences of Craig Murray, Bob Piper or Boris Johnson, now you know why they’ve gone.

Tim and Clive are now looking for a new web home for themselves and the rest and are hoping to be back within 48 hours. If any sympathetic souls would help spread the word, it would be most appreciated.

I’d like to know who the webhost was. My guess is it wasn’t based in the US.

UPDATE: It was Fasthosts: “The UK’s Number 1 web host” (sic)

Wouldn’t touch ‘em with a bargepole.

This is the latest list of blogs (from Justin) which have ‘spread the word’:
Curious Hamster, Pickled Politics, Harry’s Place, Tim Worstall, Dizzy, Iain Dale, Ten Percent, Blairwatch, Davide Simonetti, Earthquake Cove, Turbulent Cleric (who suggests dropping a line to the FA about Mr Usmanov), Mike Power, Jailhouse Lawyer, Suesam, Devil’s Kitchen, The Cartoonist, Falco, Casualty Monitor, Forever Expat, Arseblog, Drink-soaked Trots (and another), Pitch Invasion, Wonko’s World, Roll A Monkey, Caroline Hunt, Westminster Wisdom, Chris K, Anorak, Mediawatchwatch, Norfolk Blogger, Chris Paul, Indymedia (with a list of Craig Murray’s articles that are currently unavailable), Obsolete, Tom Watson, Cynical Chatter, Reactionary Snob, Mr Eugenides, Matthew Sinclair, The Select Society, Liberal England, Davblog, Peter Gasston Pitch Perfect, Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe, Lunartalks, Tygerland, The Crossed Pond, Our Kingdom, Big Daddy Merk, Daily Mail Watch, Graeme’s, Random Thoughts, Nosemonkey, Matt Wardman, Politics in the Zeros, Love and Garbage, The Huntsman, Conservative Party Reptile, Ellee Seymour, Sabretache, Not A Sheep, Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion, The People’s Republic Of Newport, Life, the Universe & Everything, Arsenal Transfer Rumour Mill, The Green Ribbon, Blood & Treasure, The Last Ditch, Areopagitica, Football in Finland, An Englishman’s Castle, Freeborn John, Eursoc, The Back Four, Rebellion Suck!, Ministry of Truth, ModernityBlog, Beau Bo D’Or, Scots and Independent, The Splund, Bill Cameron, Podnosh, Dodgeblogium, Moving Target, Serious Golmal, Goonerholic, The Spine, Zero Point Nine, Lenin’s Tomb, The Durruti Column, The Bristol Blogger, ArseNews, David Lindsay, Quaequam Blog!, On A Quiet Day…, Kathz’s Blog, England Expects, Theo Spark, Duncan Borrowman, Senn’s Blog, Katykins, Jewcy, Kevin Maguire, Stumbling and Mumbling, Famous for 15 megapixels, Ordovicius, Tom Morris, AOL Fanhouse, Doctor Vee, The Curmudgeonly, The Poor Mouth, 1820, Hangbitch, Crooked Timber, ArseNole, Identity Unknown, Liberty Alone, Amused Cynicism, Clairwil, The Lone Voice, Tampon Teabag, Unoriginalname38, Special/Blown It, The Remittance Man, 18 Doughty Street, Laban Tall, Martin Bright, Spy Blog The Exile, poons, Jangliss, Who Knows Where Thoughts Come From?, Imagined Community, A Pint of Unionist Lite, Poldraw, Disillusioned And Bored, Error Gorilla, Indigo Jo, Swiss Metablog, Kate Garnwen Truemors, Asn14, D-Notice, The Judge, Political Penguin, Miserable Old Fart, Jottings, fridgemagnet, Blah Blah Flowers, J. Arthur MacNumpty, Tony Hatfield, Grendel, Charlie Whitaker, Matt Buck, The Waendel Journal, Marginalized Action Dinosaur, SoccerLens, Toblog, John Brissenden East Lower, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Peter Black AM, Boing Boing, BLTP, Gunnerblog, LFB UK, Liberal Revolution, Wombles, Focus on Sodbury…, Follow The Money, Freedom and Whisky, Melting Man, PoliticalHackUK, Simon Says…, Daily EM, From The Barrel of a Gun, The Fourth Place, The Armchair News Blog, Journalist und Optimist, Bristol Indymedia, Dave Weeden, Up North John, Gizmonaut, Spin and Spinners, Marginalia, Arnique, Heather Yaxley, The Whiskey Priest, On The Beat, Paul Canning, Martin Stabe, Mat Bowles, Pigdogfucker, Rachel North, B3TA board, Naqniq, Yorkshire Ranter, The Home Of Football, UFO Breakfast Recipients, Moninski , Kerching, e-clectig, Mediocracy, Sicily Scene, Samizdata, I blog, they blog, weblog, Colcam, Some Random Thoughts, Bel is thinking, Vino S, Simply Jews, Atlantic Free Press, Registan, Filasteen, Britblog Roundup #136, Scientific Misconduct Blog, Adam Bowie, Duncan at Abcol, Camera Anguish, A Very British Dude, Whatever, Central News, Green Gathering, Leighton Cooke, Skuds’ Sister’s Brother, Contrast News, Poliblog Perspective, Parish Pump, El Gales, Noodle, Curly’s Corner Shop, Freunde der offenen Gesellschaft, otromundoesposible, Richard Stacy, Looking For A Voice, News Dissector, Kateshomeblog, Writes Like She Talks, Extra! Extra!, Committee To Protect Bloggers, Liberty’s Requiem, American Samizdat, The Thunder Dragon, Cybersoc, Achievable Life, Paperholic, Creative-i, Raedwald, Nobody’s Friend, Lobster Blogster, Panchromatica,Back off, man…, Dan Hardie, Krusenstern, Brendadada, Freace, Boriswatch, Fork Handles, Chris Applegate, Christopher Glamorgan, West Virginia Rebel’s Blog, Instapundit, Powerpymes, iDiligence Forum, Gizmotastic, Demos, Gary Andrews, Neweurasia , Never Trust a Hippy, sub specie aeternitatis, Bananas in the Falklands, The Sharpener, Virtual Light, Stu News, Scraps of Moscow, Danivon, As A Dodo, La Russophobe, PJC Journal, Mick Fealty’s Brassneck, dead brains don’t dance, A Comfortable Place, Bamblog, Robert Amsterdam, The Customer, No Longer at Ease, Rachel-Catherine, Humaniform, Mike Rouse, Chesus Yuste, anticapitalista (292).





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Lawyer jailed for faking email in child custody case

A bit of research on the internet, a little bit of private -eye work and some help from an electronics store have put a scheming, lying lawyer behind bars for six months. Ooooh, there is something very satisfying in seeing barristers, judges, magistrates, MPs and coppers ending up in the clink. That's fair cheered me up!

Today Interview:  Bruce Anthony Hyman is the first barrister in British history to be sent to prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice...




You can take the girl out of the gutter...

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Cherie cashes in on husband's fame with £1.5million memoirs' deal
She often complained that being the wife of Tony Blair was "like living in a goldfish bowl". But faced with the prospect of earning millions for her life story, Cherie Blair has shown she is more than willing to invade her own privacy if the price is right.

The former Prime Minister's wife has signed a £1.5million deal to write an "intimate" portrait of her family's life at Downing Street.


Nice!

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Man admits urinating on ill woman

A Hartlepool man is facing jail after he urinated on a disabled woman who lay dying in the street. The 27-year-old shouted "this is YouTube material" as he degraded Christine Lakinski, 50, who had fallen ill, magistrates heard. He threw a bucket of water over her, before urinating on her and covering her with shaving foam. The incident was filmed on a mobile phone.


NYT Archive, now FREE!

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The Executive Computer; A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services
Bill Clinton and Al Gore made a campaign promise to help build a national data network, hoping it would lead to new digital information services. While waiting to see if the new Administration follows through, businesses can get a taste of the future with the rapidly growing commercial networks of computer services.

The first networks were on-line services like Prodigy, Compuserve and America Online. Although they provide useful services, these networks are based on minicomputer and mainframe technologies of the 1960's and 1970's, in which thousands of users can connect simultaneously by telephone to a central system that dispenses electronic information. And that technology has drawbacks: the systems can become congested, and for the most part customers have limited options.
This is the first mention in the New York Times of the World Wide Web (1993), taken from the 150+ years of NYT archives which, after the discontinuation of the Select subs programme, are mostly available free of charge.

Via Kottke