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Twitter Updates for 2009-01-31

Who knows…

… might actually get round to posting something of value (to me at least)… In the meantime I have my head under the WP bonnet with a large wrench [...]

Oh Bugger!

Google blacklists entire internet

Glitch causes world’s most popular search engine to classify all web pages as dangerous

Google placed the internet on a blacklist today after a mistake caused every site in the search engine’s result pages to be marked as potentially harmful and dangerous. Continue reading this item…

Bobby Llewellyn’s ‘CarPool’ – Jonathan Ross

‘This week, Mr J Ross is the passenger.’ Continue reading this item…

Twitter Updates for 2009-01-30

Twitter Updates for 2009-01-30

Nigerian car thief turns into sheep

Swiftly cuffed in vigilante ovine suppression op

We’re not quite sure what to make of this report in Nigeria’s Vanguard, but it appears that police in Ilorin, Kwara State, are holding in custody a chap who tried to steal a Mazda, transformed himself into a sheep and was seized by vigilantes in a swift ovine suppression operation. Continue reading this item…

Dimitri the Stud

What a conceited, desperate weasel…

I really, really hope ‘Olga’ didn’t ever get back to [...]

Depressed Twitter addict fails to get suicide note down to 140 characters

A man whose life had been ruined by the social networking craze Twitter failed to end it all yesterday after he found himself unable to write a farewell message sufficiently concise to explain his reasons. Friends and associates of David Gough, 33, had been kept informed of his steady decline over the past few months, receiving regular personal updates such as ‘Now having sex with my wife. She is saying put that bloody iPhone away’ and ‘Wife has just walked out. Says I spend too much time sending bloody messages.’ Continue reading this item…

Hamas to broadcast BBC licence appeal

Hamas has agreed to run a controversial appeal on behalf of the BBC licence fee. The appeal, which has been criticised by many as ‘overtly political’, will be broadcast tomorrow on the one remaining television set in the Gaza Strip. The BBC licence fee has been the subject of heated political debate and many believe that it is too sensitive a subject for Hamas to broadcast without undermining their hard-earned reputation for impartiality. Continue reading this item…