Super Injunctions and Deep Searching Software
I have written software that in the past has been used to deep search the Internet. I did it when a company asked me if I could help trace anybody stealing their IPR. I didn’t find anything at all and in that case that was a good result, as it meant there had been no theft.
However software like that could be easily written to deep search the Internet for relationships that shouldn’t be happening. Let’s say two well-known Premiership managers decided to have a good lunch together after the season in a good restaurant. As well they might! Someone might see them and put the story in a blog or tweet and unless someone else was searching for it deliberately it wouldn’t be found. But the deep search software would find it, if it was properly set up, say with a database of the names of all Premiership managers and footballers.
So just as Google tracks the links with its search terms, other software can be written to find relationships.
So celebrities had better be even more careful.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Addresses Parliament
Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, has been speaking in the country’s parliament. It is reported here on the BBC. This is part of the report.
He has launched a defence of Pakistan’s record in fighting terrorism, highlighting the “price paid” in civilian and military losses.
And he strongly denied that there had been any collusion between Pakistan and al-Qaeda to shelter Bin Laden.
“Allegations of complicity and incompetence are absurd,” he told MPs.
The Pakistan people have indeed paid a heavy price, but they have probably suffered just as much because of their inept and corrupt government.
New Scrabble Words
It has been announced that there are now a lot of new words allowed in Scrabble like innit and thang.
Well not in my house, as I play with a proper set that has wooden tiles.
Jon Snow on Super Injunctions
Jon Snow has put this on Twitter.
Every single super injunction has now either been tweeted or has appeared in Private Eye: What has Judge Eady who set them up done? Sweet FA
Tweeters Attempt to Break the Super Injunctions
There are reports that users of Twitter are attempting to break the super injunctions.
It’s now getting to the point, where someone with a super injunction might think of doing an Andrew Marr for the money.
Suppose you are an well-known actor, athlete or a footballer say, who has had a brief dalliance with a Z-list celebrity. But your wife is perhaps a sensible woman who has forgiven you and has warned you about future conduct. Remember, strange as it may seem, there are a lot of women married to celebrities, who very much manage the family’s finances and often have a serious career in their own right. Perhaps you just want to act or play football and get on with your life. So you strike a deal with the Z-lister and sell the story. After all, in a footballer’s case the season is almost over and you can find a nice island hotel to hide for the summer.
So someone will take the money, settle with the Z-lister, write a few articles and run.
Once one has done it, the others might fall like a pack of cards.
You have to admit that probably keeping a super injunction going is not a trivial business and costly in terms of both time and money. The bill might hurt more than the adverse publicity.
The Selfish Fuel Protestors Are At It Again!
I’ve said it before but energy prices are too low, if we are to meet our commitments to our descendents to stop global warming.
So what do those who object to fuel prices do? They blockade Ellesmere Port and demand that fuel prices are lowered by 24p a litre. They should probably be raised and more money put into the provision of much-needed charge points for electric cars and also subsidies for those like the disabled to buy electric cars.
After all, I used to drive 40,000 kilometres a year, but now because of my stroke I can’t and manage very well on public transport.
I could also argue that the real selfish ones are those that live a long way from their work and do hundreds of kilometres a week ferrying children to schools in the other direction, before they burn up the motorway to London or Manchester, when they could easily live in the city or work over the Internet.
After all cutting the miles you drive by 25% would be equivalent for you as a similar drop in the price of fuel.
Here where I live, I get the impression that many walk or cycle their children to school and then carry on to their place of work, perhaps by taking a bus.
If I can manage public transport after a stroke, that some say nearly killed me, then others who are fit and well surely can. Or are they more unfit than I am and just too selfish?
I shouldn’t worry about it, as in a couple of years time, we will all have to make those lifestyle changes, that circumstances have forced me to take.
Do Tinned Artichokes Make You Rich?
I’ve just looked up the richest women in the UK.
I was once in Waitrose in Newmarket and one of the top ten was buying lots of tinned artichokes.
Is there a connection?
Bad News for Chuggers
The Sunday Times is also carrying a story that Just Giving has developed a system with Vodafone to collect donations by SMS text message. A hundred percent of the charge will go to the charity.
They predict it will cut down the number of chuggers on our streets.
Is This Why We Didn’t Get the 2018 World Cup?
The Sunday Times is claiming that Nicholas Leoz of Paraguay wanted a knighthood to vote for England to be given the 2018 World Cup. So how many other of the world’s bad and nasty, who have the power in FIFA did we turn down? Obviously, Russia and Qatar, put a much better case to these idiots. Probably stuffed with used euros or dollars.
A Hurricane Over Hull
I just had to link to this web page and video, which shows a Hawker Hurricane flying over Hull yesterday to mark the seventieth anniversary of the worst two nights of the Hull Blitz.
I have my own memories of Hurricanes and they are in this rather long post.
The Anonymous Widower 