The Anonymous Widower

What’s Up With England?

I saw them in Belarus.  The way they played that night, they could have put at least four or more past Algeria.

June 18, 2010 Posted by | Sport | , | 2 Comments

Do you like Frogs, Boiled, Fried or With Tortillas?

The French really surrended to Mexico last night. Let’s hope England are better tonight!

And what happened to the Germans? They missed a penalty!

June 18, 2010 Posted by | Sport | , , | Leave a comment

Lazy Day Foods

Just trying some of Lazy Day‘s ginger biscuits dipped in Belgian chocolate. Gluten-free of course! Obtainable from Waitrose.

Delicious! Extremely so!

It would seem that all their products are gluten-free, wheat-free, dairy-free, egg-free and vegan.

Talk about one size to fit all to everybody’s advantage.

June 18, 2010 Posted by | Food | | 2 Comments

Don’t buy a Nokia X6 if you’ve had a stroke!

I have one of these phones and for my situation, they are designed all wrong.

My biggest problem is that I have had a stroke and I drop things or knock them on the floor.  If I dropped my Nokia 6310i, it just carried on working.  The X6 falls apart and you need to reenter date and time. It is totally unfit for my purposes.

It is a bit of a pity really about this lack of robustness, as I liked a lot about the phone.

I have just phoned O2 and they have agreed to swap the phone for something hopefully more suitable.  So that at least is a positive thing and a couple of stars at least for O2.  But they are generally very good over the phone and I’ve stayed with they for nearly 20 years.

June 18, 2010 Posted by | World | , , , , | 3 Comments

Obama’s Foundation

This scam is going the rounds.  I suspect that Obama is doing his utmost to make sure people don’t get ripped off in his good name. If so, he’s not being very effective, or the people he’s using sren’t very good.

Greetings to you,

 

SCAMMED VICTIM/ $500,000 BENEFICIARIES.

REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654 $500,000 USD.

 

 On behalf of the Obama’s Foundation and UNITED NATIONS, we wish to notify you as a beneficiary of  $500,000 USD in compensation of scam victims.This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the Obama’s Foundation and UNITED NATIONS in Central Bank to pay 150 victims of scam $500,000 USD (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount.

    According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, over a half of the victims are from the United States, we still have a pending of 36 compensations left to be paid. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of  their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as  the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended.  Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration

    Do contact HSBC INTERNATIONAL BANK, United Kingdom Branch for verification and release of your $500,000 USD that we have deposited with the HSBC BANK,UK.

 The account log on will be presented to you by the bank in order to access the funds before releasing into your nominated bank  account.

You will transfer the funds into your nominated account  on-line as the HSBC BANK,UK will provide the necessary information to you. Please if you are willing to accept the funds, do contact the Managing Director of the HSBC BANK,UK  with the following details:

            

Your. Full names:

Occupation:

Tel:

Sex:

Age:

Country:

 

 Managing Director of the HSBC BANK,UK

Name: Mrs. Cole

Private Email:mrsjesscole@gmail.com

Telephone:+447766822807

 

 Yours Faithfully,

 Dr.Caravan Marvis

Coordinator
OBAMA’S FOUNDATION AND UNITED NATIONS© 2010.

Note the new suspect number 07766 appear not to be mobile numbers, but high-cost ones designed for scammers to use.

June 18, 2010 Posted by | Computing | , | 1 Comment

Anti-Virus Protection

For years, I’ve used McAffee, but when it came to renew this year, they wanted me to take all sorts of software that I don’t need. I very much object to the completely unnecessary SiteAdvisor.  At 62, I’m perfectly capable of deciding what I want to look at.

So McAffee has had to go.  Sad really, as indirectly I was an investor in the company and I made some money and they have served me well for years.  But why should I buy things I don’t need.

So what have I done?

Programmers know where to get trusted software and one of those resources is SourceForge.  There I have found a free anti-virus program called ClamWin.

It installed easily, although McAffee tried to stop the installation.

I’ll let you know how I get on.

June 18, 2010 Posted by | Computing | , | 3 Comments