Blog spamming

Wednesday, 21 July 2010, 9:17 | Category : Computer Stuff, Crumbs, Curiosities
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According to statistics over 80% of comments left on blogs are spam. In my case it’s even worse than that as over 90% of the comments I get are spam (which is why I moderate this blog pretty heavily). Just to give you an idea - at this time there are 618 comments on this [...]

Who said that older people can’t learn to use computers?

Friday, 22 May 2009, 21:42 | Category : Computer Stuff, Crumbs, Curiosities
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I always knew that my dad’s excuse of not being able to learn to use the computer because he’s old was flimsy :] It’s a shame that older people tend to have a lot of resistance against computers. Many of them are lonely and the internet offers older people plenty of convenient ways of socializing [...]

Japanese plant writes blog

Saturday, 25 October 2008, 19:53 | Category : Crumbs, Curiosities
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I’m not kidding. You can check out the blog itself here - there’s no English version though.

Ram Gopal Varma, the snarkiest director in Bollywood and his blog

Thursday, 11 September 2008, 3:24 | Category : Bollywood & the Indian film industry, Crumbs
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I initially started reading Ram Gopal Varma’s blog because he has such a wonderfully sarcastic sense of humour. But once I got into it there was more to appreciate. He’s not the best writer in terms of how he uses the English language, but he really knows how to put a story together and how [...]