Month: March 2013

CloudFlare is becoming a target

CloudFlare offers a fantastic service. DNS, DDoS protection and optimization of your site. The trouble is, just lately, the service – particularly to UK users – has been spotty at best. Here’s the issues from March 22nd and 23rd. As you can see there was what CloudFlare call “Performance degradation”, which they detail as “Performance is slower than normal”. This… Read more →

Don’t try jokes with the mother in law :)

Today it’s pretty snowy. I was out clearing the snow from the drive and my mother-in-law turned up. “You wouldn’t believe it”, she said, “the amount of people walking around wihtout hats or gloves on in this weather”. There’s a biting wind, it’s seriously cold. “I’ve just walked to the Co-Op”, she continued, “..and this girl, she was about 20,… Read more →

The biggest problem in the snow

Sure, the papers might be full of stories involving traffic chaos and closed schools, but the worse possible part of the bad weather is often missed by the national news. Instead of adding stories involving blocked roads and people falling over, we should instead concentrate on the fact that the snow has more serious, more annoying repercussions. You lose satellite… Read more →

Lana Del Rey is back again

Remember Video Games by Lana Del Ray? There was a pretty excellent remix out at the time but most people heard the radio edit, which was shit. Anyways, here’s another new one – Summertime Sadness. Again, if you do hear this on the radio then it’ll probably be the crap radio edit. So instead this is the Cedric Gervais Remix,… Read more →

Spammy phone calls

I absolutely, utter HATE people calling me up in the evenings asking for stuff or selling something. Tonight It was Marie Cure, calling from 02034762654. I’ve got a very short fuse with these people, but when they’re calling at 9PM it really bugs me. So, Mr Internet, if you’re connected to the Marie Curie charity, advise them that calling people… Read more →

Horse balls in Ikea

You know about this meat saga. Horses have found their way into burgers but, horror of horrors, it’s now in Ikea meatballs too. Gahh! Still, it’s chance for the b3ta to create a new set of instructions… Read more →