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The more frequent visitor to this blog will have noticed the distinct lack of postings made during the latter part of last week. Other than being incredibly busy, this was due in part to the fifty or so attempted spam comments made each day from somebody keen to drive my visitors to numerous sex related websites. I got pretty annoyed by this and on Friday night, before heading off to Cardiff, accidently deleted an entire post whilst moderating some spam links (that’s rushing for you). I then had to wait for one of my freelance contacts to restore the comment that I had deleted. I’ve found a good plug-in for Wordpress which addresses the spam attack issue, it’s called Akismet (Automattic Kismet).

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Every now and again I come across a group of ticket inspectors at a railway station who seem to be have been vastly over-resourced. At Dorking railway station this morning I found three ticket inspectors sitting outside the Full Monty refreshment shack having a smoke, a gossip and a play on their mobile phones. I’m not surprised they were doing this as Dorking station has only eight trains an hour (and one had just been cancelled), with a lack of people around there really isn’t much to do. So who’s bright idea was it to allocate three ticket inspection staff to such a relatively small station? (more…)