13 October 2026
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I probably should revise that headline: everything online may be fake. Online misinformation goes back a long way. In the early days, that was more likely to be a consequence of misunderstanding but, certainly since the Internet became widely used … Continue reading
7 April 2025
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Assuming that you are reading this via the Internet rather than by magic, my switch to a new broadband provider has gone reasonably smoothly. For several years I’ve been with Virgin Media and I’ve been paying over the odds for … Continue reading
3 August 2024
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It was 5 July 1993 that Peter Steiner drew his “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” cartoon. That turned out to be very prescient. It was true then even though relatively few people had access to the Internet … Continue reading
28 July 2020
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Yesterday was another busy day in the new house. The most stressful part of the day was the start of it, as I knew the Virgin Media installer would be round sometime between 8am and 1pm and we’d ended up … Continue reading
5 November 2019
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If I’ve done this right, you are now seeing my blog via a secure, HTTPS connection rather than the plain ol’ HTTP one that has been in place thus far (or you will be using a feed aggregator and won’t … Continue reading
25 July 2013
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An early online meme was “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog“. Salutary — you really don’t know much about the people you are communicating with until you have built a richer network of connections with them — but … Continue reading
14 February 2012
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I see the default behaviour of Delicious.com has changed to make links private by default. Fair enough but it would have been helpful to get a warning. I wanted to show Jane a site I bookmarked earlier today and was … Continue reading
3 February 2011
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I love the Internet as an engine of serendipty. Earlier this week, following a conversation about potatoes (inspired because I had been bookmarking seed potatoes on Delicious) a friend commented that he was trying to master the bass introduction to … Continue reading
25 March 2005
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Yesterday’s Stations of the Cross event at church went really well, despite my posting the Stations of the Kitsch link! This morning I’m up early baking hot cross buns for the Good Friday events at church and, while waiting for … Continue reading