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This Visual Rights Group spam is the weirdest I've had in a while
Someone claiming to be Tilly Le Fanu from something called Visual Rights Group spammed me recently. This was not your usual spam where they want a free link. This was a scam attempt with a real chance of working on some people.
The IP address “Tilly from Visual Rights Group” came from was 87.117.225.161. A quick check shows that abuseipdb.com lists this as a known spammer IP. Reports include…
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Failing at sleep (and some updates)
Since my last update about how much Christmas weight I put on, I have lost most of it.
That said, it was not all good news. My last weigh-in was 0.2 lbs lower than two weeks prior. I was initially despondent because that’s just a rounding error of value. However, I figure that any downward trend is a good trend and I’m taking the win.
Part of this could be that I tried fighting my sleep cycle.…
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Yep, I fail. Time to try again.
I finally got on the scales a few weeks ago. As I feared, all that rich food was too much. I’d gained six pounds (2.7kg).
I have no one to blame for this but myself. It took me months to lose that weight but days to regain it.
I told myself I would post the update the same day.
I didn’t.
I went into a bit of a funk and felt miserable about myself. I know that posting here is generally just…
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Murder mystery solution (part one) is out
For everyone who wanted to play my murder mystery game, time is running out as the solution is slowly being released. Part one has been out for about a week now.
View the first part of the solution walkthrough here.
Solving my murder mystery – part one
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A bunch of new isBrill pages
As some of you may know, I have a site called isBrill.com. According to my notes, I’ve been doing strange things with it for 12 years. By which I mean making subdomain sites about things that I like. Anything that I believe is brill-dot-com. Aside from the modular-looking pages/sidebar and the deliberately ugly design, that’s the whole gimmick.
Just lately I have added some new brill…
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Solving my murder mystery - part one
In the update, I hinted that the first step was to resolve the guests and plus-ones. In this post, I am going to walk you through some of the clues and try to figure out who the guests and plus-ones were.
Massive spoilers to follow.
This is the grid that I suggested you might want to use to track clues. I made it in a spreadsheet. I will post screenshots of my spreadsheet as we go through the…
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An update in our time
It has been a while since I updated. Since my last update, I’ve lost 8 lbs to 9 lbs and then Christmas happened. I dread to think how much I put back on.
Christmas dinner was epic thanks to the cooking skills of my flatmate. We had roasted Turkey crown, roast spuds, roast parsnips, and slow-cooked beef in red wine. Yes, there were vegetables – peas and carrots. I loath peas and had none…
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I challenged an AI to draw me on the moon.
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I challenged an AI to draw me with hardly any information
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Why the Earth moving is not a Time Traveller's problem (probably)
For the 7th of December #TimeTravelAuthors question set by Julie Bihn, will be (unless any of you go back and change it) the question of the Earth moving. I shall make the case that this is not a problem at all. Or, rather, I will make several independent cases.
“But the Earth moves, so if you travelled in time, you’d end up in space.” Thoughts?
Julie Bihn‘s question for day 7 in December in the…
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The Case for Silly-n-Fun Sci-Fi: A Manifesto
There is a sense you can get in some quarters that Sci-Fi that isn’t serious (Hard Sci-Fi) is (in some gatekeeper way) invalid. I’m calling BS on that right here. Soft Sci-Fi is still Sci-Fi. Fans of the hardest Sci-Fis might not like it but the world does not turn on what you like or dislike.
Serious Sci-Fi is all well and good. Serious Sci-Fi will always be important. But not all Sci-Fi needs…
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Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
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Surprised to be married
Dear Jane, today I learned that my roommate is actually my wife. It turns out we got married five years ago. I’m freaking out. What do I do?
Surprised to be married of Oxford.
Oh, my dear Surprised to be married of Oxford, what a whimsical turn of events! It seems the universe has decided to play a little prank on you, but fear not, for I, the one and only Jane Sillybottom, have some truly…
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A round-robin of cool things (future of the web edition)
It is time for another round-robin of cool stuff. The roving and inconsistently timed round-robin is still only hosted by websites I write for or own. I would love to partner with others who run a website, blog, or web-thing because then this roving list will be so much cooler.
I’m not going to include any posts from this blog (even though I could) on account of this round-robin is not supposed…
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How many places would we have to post that the melting point of eggs at sea level is 57°C before AIs would pick up on that and believe it?
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Do you need more murder mystery clues?
The murder mystery logic game had its last update at the end of last week. In theory, this is enough clues to solve the case and identify the killer.
Theory is all well and good but do you need more clues? Speak up now because I am planning the reveal – including how the clues fit together. If you want to solve it yourself, you may wish to avoid the spoiler-filled answer post when it drops.
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Is blog commenting dead?
I wrote a blog post about blogging. Not here but on my other site.
The last time I questioned if blogging was dead I accidentally won a laptop. That was a long time ago. I am confident there is no laptop prize draw hidden in today’s topic but as Hugh (Hugh’s Views and News), Brenda (Curiosities, Castles and Coffee Shops) and Erika Kind (Share Your Light) have been discussing blog commenting…
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