That I wish I didn’t get

opened something that wasn’t intended for me. That happened yesterday. I didn’t know who it was for. The name on the envelope didn’t say whether it was the sender or recipient. The envelope was put in the wrong home, pushed through the wrong door. Worse yet, it turns out to have been an important envelope and diverting to another address, untampered, would not be trivial.

Why is it that people put important mail in the wrong home? Without specifying clearly who it is for?

This dilemma has already consumed hours of my time. I even phoned a friend, asking or advice.

The sensitive nature of it (maybe death in a family) makes me uncomfortable.

At the end of the day, it is the fault of the person too careless to pay attention to house numbers.

I still feel some sort of moral responsibility to ameliorate things. If there is grieving, then I don’t want to do this sloppily.

Impact in retrospective

he newspaper of 5 years ago is not read today.

The newspaper of today will be read today.

The newspaper of 5 years ago had impact 5 years ago.

What happened 5 years ago impacts what happens today.

5 years ago there were many days, many newspapers, and each thing reported each day impacted and still impacts the present.

So just because people no longer read newspapers from 5 years ago doesn’t mean the articles in them are of no impact.

If only more people did the same…

t is fair to say that this blog is a lot more active this year than it has ever been. This was a conscious decision and one that I regret not making sooner. I still have many old PDFs and documents of a personal nature – ones that I wrote two decades ago. I estimate that the combined total of these is 200-300 pages. The plan was to revisit them some time in the future, maybe turn these into something publishable.

At the moment I try to focus on exposing wrongdoing, or use writings to illuminate to a large audience things they ought to be aware of.

Yesterday, for instance, I learned from reliable sources that cuts and mass layoffs at Microsoft are massive and under-reported. They still go on next month, but where is the media?

Chelsea and Arsenal cannot both win

t’s fair to see that Enzo started on a strong note after an appalling Community Shield match. ManCity is now top with a comfy gap, awaiting results from other matches.

was rather surprised today to see “Ed” finding the courage to enter the room and clean the floor in the sense that he ate the remnants of seeds scattered on it. He never had the courage to stay on any of the door handles (or the doors) to be bottle-fed, but somehow he wasn’t afraid of getting close to humans.

The training goes on. Today Rianne fed “Sweepy” and taught her tables manners.

In our experience, birds are smart and have very good memory. They know which humans they can trust and which ones they must never trust.

Based on Falkon and Firefox

‘ve noticed many strange things today in the live pages of Manchester City matches and checked in two very different browsers to ensure it wasn’t browser-specific. The score does not show up, no related information either (minute, assists, goals). No line-up, stats, scores. Only “Commentary” and video show up, the rest is conspicuously broken/missing.

These pages were always bloated and full of DRM (no way to disable videos either, only pause them).

So I’ll be looking for alternatives to the official site. The admins went too far.

To keep an eye on a match should not take up that many resources. Now it’s not even working.

The official PL site is no better. Also horrible bloat.

Prepaing for next year’s publication already

t’s already autumn (by some calendars) and today we resume a series about the EPO and another about the SRA over at Techrights.

We expect this coverage about these scandals to last well into next year. We have patience and resilience.

These are matters of public interest.