I’ve been using the Akismet plugin for comment-spam control for a while now, and it seems that it is very good at identifying spammy comments. Which is good. However, so many inconsiderate, low-life @~$&%!-ers have been spamming my site recently that on Saturday/Sunday, the virtual machine on which this site was hosted was overloaded. That’s… (read more)

I don’t normally post family stuff on here, but for this I’ll make an exception. My eldest daughter, Heather started school this week. And she’s loving every minute of it. Long may that continue! She is in a class of about 25 and knew almost all of the other children already; and she’s already made… (read more)

Exactly 67 years ago, World War II began. Although there had already been a fair degree of conflict leading up to this date (both in Europe and the Pacific) it was the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 that officially got the ball rolling. Two days later, Britain and France declared war on… (read more)