Stay clear of Truprint

Stay clear of Truprint (part of Snapfish) for printing photos.
I have used them for a long time but I’m sure they were responsible for messing up a whole reel of photos of James’s wedding.
I’ve emailed them many times over the last month but, apart from an auto-acknowledgement, they’ve failed to respond to my complaint.
Rubbish customer service!

Attempted burglary

SOCO are here at the moment, trying to lift finger prints or traces of blood off the broken window. I don’t think she’ll find anything but full marks for trying.

The moron(s) clearly weren’t aware that all the houses on this estate have alarms and window locks. So they couldn’t shift the window arms and, if they’d got in, they’ d soon have set off the alarm. Also, they didn’t seem to know what a cactus was - let alone a long pot with 5 big ones, just inside the window! I do hope they got a few spines in their hands.

Browser wars

I’m having my own small version on my desktop PC.

I tried FireFox a year or so ago and there were too many drawbacks. Internet Explorer 7 is fine most of the time but pretty bloated now and, of course, the target of many hackers, virus writers etc.

This week I’ve been trying FireFox 3. It’s better. There are lots of good things to say about it but some areas I don’t like.

Expect some in-depths personal reviews in a day or three.

Edit: I’ve now installed Opera (9.5) and I think I’m hooked but it’s now more complicated.

In pictures: Ugliest dog show

Twelve contenders vied for the title of the World’s Ugliest Dog at the Sonoma-Marin Fair, in California.

Organisers said winners were often animals that had been abandoned or neglected before being adopted by people who love dogs.

In this, the 20th year of the contest - there was fierce competition.

A popular look seemed to involve a lolling tongue, offset by flyaway strands of hair.

Chinese Crested dogs dominated the line-up.

The overall winner was a Chinese Crested named Gus - a three-legged, one-eyed cancer sufferer.

His owners plan to use their prize money to pay for Gus to have cancer treatment.

Read the full story: here

Naked riders take to city streets

 

Naked protesters ride on a street in Madrid, capital of Spain, on June 7, 2008. Hundreds of protesters hold a naked riding demonstration here on Saturday to protest against the expansion of the use of autos and call for riding instead of driving to reduce pollution as well as respecting the rights and interests of riders. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

Personally, I find cycling quite painful enough fully dressed!

U.S. obscenity trial judge caught posting sex images

 

A top federal judge who is presiding over an obscenity trial in Los Angeles has been caught posting explicit photos and videos to his personal Web site.(File Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhuanet) — A top federal judge who is presiding over an obscenity trial in Los Angeles has been caught posting explicit photos and videos to his personal Web site.

    But Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said he thought the material on his Web site couldn’t be seen by the public, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site Wednesday.

Read the full story: here

Perhaps this judge had passed the ‘not too intelligent’ test.

 

Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores

A Federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a man who was barred from the New London police force because he scored too high on an intelligence test.

In a ruling made public on Tuesday, Judge Peter C. Dorsey of the United States District Court in New Haven agreed that the plaintiff, Robert Jordan, was denied an opportunity to interview for a police job because of his high test scores. But he said that that did not mean Mr. Jordan was a victim of discrimination.

Judge Dorsey ruled that Mr. Jordan was not denied equal protection because the city of New London applied the same standard to everyone: anyone who scored too high was rejected.

Mr. Jordan, 48, who has a bachelor’s degree in literature and is an officer with the State Department of Corrections, said he was considering an appeal. ”I was eliminated on the basis of my intellectual makeup,” he said. ”It’s the same as discrimination on the basis of gender or religion or race.”

 

Not discrimination ??? WTF? Of course it’s discrimination.
I could understand someone failing to get an interview for being too dumb but not too clever.

And what about “the city of New London applied the same standard to everyone” ? That would certainly seem to apply to their judges.

Penis theft panic hits city

“Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo’s sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.”

Read the full story: here

Japanese woman caught living in man’s closet

I heard this from Jeremy Clarkson on BBC1’s ‘Have I got news for you’ last night. It’s not a joke. She lived there for a year!!

“We searched the house … checking everywhere someone could possibly hide,” Itakura said. “When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side.”

The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man’s house about a year ago when he left it unlocked.

She had moved a mattress into the small closet space and even took showers, Itakura said, calling the woman “neat and clean.”

Read the full story: here

 

Where we’ve been - updated map

I know I haven’t managed to write posts on this blog of everywhere we’ve been but this is my map from Tripadvisor, which will give you an idea of how much typing and photo uploading is involved:

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