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I still hate Spam

Skippy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:54:19 +0000

I have a slight dislike of all “Target Marketing” weather its pizza leaflets through my door [1] fake charitably organisations requesting my old stuff so they can profit [2]. or some annoying person phoning me.

Thursday last week I got a call from some guy working for an organisation called “Consumer Lifestyle” who are owned by Data Locator Group (DLG).

After searching online for a short while I found the contact details for the Data Protection helpline, after speaking to Nick Hubbard I have now got a copy of my Subject Access Request, and Order History report.

Now the next cunning plan is to hunt down the three company s who sold DLG data of mine and find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes.

I will post full details here as and when I get results

Oh and in the short term there are these services to remove your details:

Spam in Real Life

Skippy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:34:16 +0000

A long while ago this popped up on BoingBoing.

I am getting increasingly fed up with the amount of junk mail that comes through the door, so after a bit of a search on Google I found the post.

After a quick run through Paint (yes Paint) I have adapted it for my use:

If it is unsuccessful I will edit it a bit more, and start to charge a £5GBP handling fee for every bit of junk I receive.

Keeping Parents Computer Clean

Skippy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:49:00 +0000

While at the University of Plymouth studing, I came accross a peice of software that was used to keep all the machines clean and free of student installed crap. The University installs a application on every one of there terminals called Deep Freeze by a company called Faronics; It is about £22.50 for an install licence (you get 30 days of trial).

I have had a play with this software before, and based on that trial I have had a go at installing it on my parents computer; in the hope that it reduces the time I have to spend keeping the computer clean.

Deep Freeze works by freezing all the data on a patition and removes all changes made everytime the computer is re-started, to avoid wiping out all userdata I have the Documents and Profile folders on a diffrent patition.

I hope that at the end of my trial that it will have worked as well as I hope it will.

Although for those times support is required I have installed Cross Loop, fundimently Cross Loop is VNC wrapped in an easy to use userinterface that allows you to connect to another computer without needing to open up firewall ports and such; making it easy for parents to allow me to connect to their computer remotly.

Birthday

Skippy — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:22:04 +0000

Well as some of you know who keep there callanders up to date may know, Today (the 1st October) is the day of my birthday.

[Ruth](http://loupie.co.uk) has given me a lovley Velvert Black Cloak, lined with dark green from [Moon maden gothic](http://www.moonmaiden-gothic-clothing.co.uk/)
and from my parents i have receved a fold up bike, which will be Über usefull for when i need to traval at the other end of a train journey (or for taking in the tube) Just need to fit it out with Lights, and a Lock.

Photos will be comming along when i get round to stuff.

RIAT

Skippy — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:42:08 +0000

Ruth and I today went ti Bowmore tody, and wondered up to Fairford to see the RIAT, was a great walk, saw loads of wild life including a eagel, and loads of planes, you can go visit the photos i took here,

In other news Noor is in Swindon, and is not feeling as good as she could, because of Jason and other crap.

Internet Family Tree

Skippy — Wed, 31 May 2006 14:01:51 +0000

I have got my Family Tree on the Internet now, so hopefully people can find out things of intrest, and hopefully i will be able to find more people to add to it.