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How to hide/ remove page titles/ headers: WordPress 2011 Theme

2012-01-23T00:13:00.001Z

Ok so you have set up your pages on the WordPress 2011 theme but you do not want that big page title displaying at the top of each page. The good news is it is very easy to do. Hopefully you have found this article before wading through the WordPress forums wasting time and being thoroughly bamboozled. Anyway, moan over, here is how we worked out how to do it ourselves and which we wish we had

Double headed Venus fly trap.

2011-08-08T15:47:00.001+01:00

Have been growing Venus Fly traps for a number of years. Never having seen this happen before it was a surprise to find that this plant had produced two "mouths" on the same stem.

Have the police been hacking mobile phone voicemail as well?

2011-07-07T02:02:00.001+01:00

The News of the World phone hacking scandal currently raging is probably just the tip of the iceberg. Calling it hacking is a bit of a misnomer as getting access to an unsecured mobile voicemail service is very, very easy and anyone can do it. One private detective working for one newspaper has been fingered for hacking voicemail so far but without doubt other private investigators,

Journalists struggle to spell Gaddafi's name.

2011-03-19T12:47:00.001Z

Kadafi? http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-libya-benghazi-20110320,0,7939175.story Gadafi? http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0319/breaking1.html?via=mr Odd.

Gotcha! Conservative Party sink the Ark Royal.

2011-02-26T19:34:00.001Z

It is The Sun wot's lost it.

Failures of multiculturalism, Philby, Burgess, Blunt, and Maclean?

2011-02-05T12:05:00.001Z

David Cameron today, in Germany of all places and on the same day as a march by the “English Defence League”, has criticised multiculturalism in the UK. The speech in which Cameron made these remarks was the 47th Munich Security Conference. By making these remarks in this context Cameron is flagging up that the British Government believes that multiculturalism is a threat to national

GiffGaff vs Vodafone vs O2 PAYG smart phone internet (data) price and value comparison on a budget of £10 a month.

2011-02-01T02:02:00.001Z

You want pay as you go internet for your phone. What can you get for £10 a month? (scroll to the end for the conclusion if you don’t want to see the sums) 1. £10 giffgaff Goody Bag (lasts 30 days) (O2 network) 250 minutes calls Costs applicable to calling credit: £10 the price of the goody bag + 24p per MMS (so no MMS or you will need to top up more than £10) Unlimited texts Unlimited

Internet and MMS (picture messaging) settings for unlocked San Francisco on UK Vodafone Pay as You Go. (PAYG)

2011-01-31T00:20:00.001Z

So you have your fantastic Orange San Franciso phone, you have unlocked it but you are having trouble finding the vodafone settings for it or, like polybore, you got the internet set up ok but the San Francisco can not send picture messages (MMS). Well here are the MMS and internet settings you need and confirmed working on polybore’s phone. Thanks to Paul Oates for the illusive MMS settings.

Vaccine Failure Causes PM Cameron to Back Track Gov Policy on GP Powers

2011-01-10T01:39:00.001Z

The coalition government thinks that GPs are best placed to meet the demands of their patients so bye bye PCTs and hello GP consortia. However in a bizarre move which seems to completely go against the grain of Government policy David Cameron has suggested that GPs will have their power to order vaccines removed. If GPs cannot be trusted by Government to order sufficient quantities of vaccine

Getting British Business Online Free Domain problem. How to get your new web site to work without the www.

2010-12-21T14:03:00.004Z

If you are not already aware of it there is a great new initiative called Getting British Business Online. If you have a business or are just starting one all you have to do is register and for free you get a domain name (website address) of your choice that ends in .co.uk. The initiative uses nominet as the domain name registrar and Google Sites to host the website. Because the scheme is

Fast Next Day Heating Oil Delivery Aberdeenshire

2010-12-16T04:33:00.001Z

Anyone who has tried to order heating oil in Aberdeenshire recently will be aware of an under reported heating oil crisis at the moment. The early snow combined with Christmas has resulted in a huge number of orders swamping the major heating oil delivery companies. Phoning round the companies you are lucky if you can get an order date within 4 to 5 weeks. With the weather turning worse again the

How much does EMTALA cost the US citizen? The price of the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act.

2010-12-15T14:13:00.001Z

The EMTALA legislation means that by law a US ER department cannot refuse treatment. This means that the uninsured or those with insufficient assets to pay the bill are being treated. So who ends up paying the bill and how much is it? Surprisingly considering the amount of attention that the US health reforms currently receive it is very difficult to find a US Government statistic to this

Who sent a bomb threat to web host Rackhost?

2010-12-05T00:32:00.000Z

The San Antonio Business Journal reported that Rackhost which provides web hosting services was sent a bomb threat that caused the evacuation of the companies head quarters in San Antonio on Thursday the 2nd of December 2010. Although the bomb threat turned out to be a hoax it does make one think who would want to send a bomb threat to a web hosting company and why Rackhost in particular.

Does “David Cameron” Spell the End of the Conservative Party?

2010-05-20T23:55:00.001+01:00

This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License Copyright by World Economic Forum, swiss-image.ch/Photo by Remy Steinegger. Many Conservatives have been, lets say surprised, at the direction that their party, in coalition government, seems to be heading. But perhaps they should not be surprised. David Cameron has never been very popular with

The Third Way Out of the LibDem Coalition Dilemma. None of the above. Get the Power off the Sofas and into Parliament Where it Belongs.

2010-05-11T04:07:00.001+01:00

All the talk is of the Liberal Democrats becoming part of a coalition government. The advantages and otherwise of all the possible coalition permutations have been discussed in their minutiae. The LibDem quandary is that forming any sort of coalition in the current circumstances is effective electoral suicide. The LibDems are ideologically incompatible with the Conservatives at the grass

WTF! Gordon Brown Kicks Arse!

2010-05-06T01:04:00.002+01:00

A little late in the day but if Brown had been making speeches like this from day one of the campaign…. Difficult to imagine the other airbrushed inflatable plastic party leaders managing to make a speech from the heart in the way Brown has here.

It’s the Sun Wot’s Lost It

2010-04-21T23:33:00.001+01:00

Not the election who knows what will happen there, no, The Sun has just lost it, period, the “it” being it’s political nous. When The Sun jumped the New Labour ship for the David Cameron band wagon back in October 2009, a Conservative landslide victory seemed certain, The Sun must have felt confident that they would once again have the satisfaction of backing the winning team in the same way

Why David Cameron can’t beat Gordon Brown.

2010-03-02T02:15:00.001Z

Gordon Brown has undoubtedly been an unpopular Prime Minister and it is accepted that a big part of this is due to the fact he can’t get his personality across via the media and/ or because his personality, well, just isn’t very nice. By contrast David Cameron hasn’t really had a chance to become unpopular with anyone other than the Conservative Parliamentary Party (over his handling of the

Donald Trump’s International Golf Links’, the white elephant in the room.

2010-03-01T20:44:00.001Z

Aberdeenshire Council and The Scottish Government are desperate for Donald Trump’s investment as demonstrated by the overturning of the original planning committee's decision to reject the plans for the golfing resort and the current “last resort” threat of compulsory purchases on those residents who do not want to sell. It is not enough just to build it. However for Donald Trump’s

National Bullying Helpline is as good as fake.

2010-02-21T23:03:00.001Z

The National Bullying Helpline came to polybore’s attention when the head of the organisation, Christine Pratt, claimed that she had been contacted by several members of Gordon Brown’s staff. This comes on the back of anonymous allegations made in a book by Andrew Rawnsley which is currently being serialised in the Observer Newspaper. Ok lets have a closer look at the impressively named “

Catherine Tate Sex Robot. Modelled on or coincidental look alike?

2010-02-05T04:41:00.001Z

Catherine Tate Sex Robot Noticed a news item today about an inventor called Douglas Hines who has created a $7000 sex robot which he proudly unveiled at Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada last month. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/01/sex.robot/ Polybore was immediately struck by how much the sex robot looks like British actor and comedian

Google Chrome Tool Bar has disappeared, gone missing. Wrench, refresh, back button icons. Fix.

2010-02-02T02:55:00.001Z

A curious thing happened a couple of days ago. Opened Chrome and was surprised to see that a number of the buttons were missing from the toolbar. Just a big white blank were they used to be. On further investigation, clicking around roughly where they used to be it turned out that the buttons were still there and functioning but invisible. If you have the same problem then the way polybore

New Life Children's Refuge Haiti

2010-01-31T16:31:00.001Z

New Life Children's Refuge are based in Idaho and are associated with the Central Valley Baptist Church. Currently the Cenral Valley Babtist Church is displaying this message on it's web site. "A ten member church team traveled to Haiti to help rescue children from one or more orphanages that had been devastated in the earthquake on January 12. The children were being taken to an orphanage in the

How to spot a lie. Michael Rosen vs Richard Sheridan, managing director of Teceris Validation Services, part of the Capita Group

2010-01-25T21:51:00.001Z

The BBC Radio 4 program “Word of Mouth” broadcast 12th January 2010 and presented by Michael Rosen investigated lying. It’s strap line was “Does our voice change when we are trying to deceive?”. Part of the program included an interview between Michael Rosen and Richard Sheridan, managing director of Teceris Validation Services, part of the Capita Group. Teceris Validation Services provide

Freeloading hypocrite Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan loves BBC iPlayer but won’t pay for it

2010-01-09T18:35:00.001Z

Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, while answering a question on this weekends edition of BBC Radio 4’s “Any Questions”, said “…I’ve now stopped paying my licence fee because I have discarded my television and I watch television on the internet instead…” To be exempt from having a TV Licence while still accessing television over the internet you can only use on demand services such as the BBC

Have you seen this child?

2009-11-03T10:24:00.001Z

Igglepiggle’s salutary lesson on why small children should go to bed when told.

2009-10-26T20:57:00.001Z

Igglepiggle’s reluctance to go to bed has made him unpopular in the polybore household and has prompted polybore to rework the ending of the BBC’s “In the Night Garden” in the style of Struwwelpeter. Polybore used the blender video sequencer to create this.

What do Republicans , Jihadists, Peaceniks and Socialists have in common?

2009-10-12T03:45:00.001+01:00

They all don’t think Obama should have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Having looked at the the round up of reaction from world leaders and international organisations polybore was struck by what unusual bedfellows those who have criticised Obama’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize make. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8298802.stm When you look at the world reaction at a State or

Did David Cameron’s Moobs flipflop The Sun to Conservative?

2009-10-01T00:21:00.001+01:00

Could this grainy holiday snap be the real reason for The Sun switching support from Labour to Conservative. The Sun might Say!: “We thought David Cameron was just a right tit then we realised there is more to him than that, his left tit, and that makes a lovely pair. Vote Conservative!”

Cleaned up audio proves Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus prayers were to God NOT Obama.

2009-09-29T22:42:00.008+01:00

There is a video circulating on the net of some community workers conducting a prayer meeting. Some people are claiming that the prayers are actually directed to Obama not to God. Here is the original video and audio. There is a lot of background distortion caused by the large room, ambient noise and sub broadcast quality microphone. Now the human brain is a funny old thing and is

How to stop flash, iplayer, YouTube from exiting full screen on mouse click when using dual monitors.

2009-09-24T22:07:00.001+01:00

Polybore pieced together this solution from a number of existing sources which each on their own did not supply all the information. Polybore has amalgamated the information into an easy 4 step process which you can skip to at the end of the post (Method). For all the information read on. Piecing together the information. Polybore’s dual monitor set up is a monitor and a TV connected to their

Blogger nav bar search not working.

2009-09-24T00:08:00.002+01:00

Edit: Checked today and search from the nav bar is working again 1st October 2009While looking for an old post noticed that the blogger nav bar search is not working properly. It will sometimes find search terms that are in the title of a post but not search terms in the body of a post. It turns out that this is a problem effecting many blogger users and has been so for about a month. http://

The Telegraph and The Times slur Sir Nicholas Winton with “Schindler” tag.

2009-09-05T01:01:00.001+01:00

Today is the 70th anniversary of the journey of 669 Czech Jewish Children fleeing from Prague to London, in the weeks leading up to World War II, and was marked by a re- enactment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/8239157.stm Sir Nicholas Winton personally and in his spare time made the arrangements to save these children in September 1939. He found the children families to stay

The world’s worst map.

2009-08-29T03:18:00.001+01:00

Fiscally challenged and media incompetent. California seems to have well and truly hit skid row. Ok, so having an ebay/ craigslist garage sale in order to claw back a 16 billion budget deficit could be said to, at least, kind of show that you are trying all you can to break even. Thinking out of the box and all that. Not many states have a governor who can add a few dollars value to some junk

How to easily create flash widgets for your web site/ blog. Or even send them by email.

2009-08-03T21:45:00.001+01:00

The main purpose of wix.com is to allow anyone to create a flash based website using their highly customisable and easy to use templates. However as demonstrated here you can see it can also be used to create a flash widget which can be embedded in your existing web site. In this example polybore has created a music player but you could just as easily create a video player, slide show, google

Batch renderer software for Blender available for download. FastF12 by Super3boy.

2009-06-11T02:58:00.001+01:00

Super3boy has been busy and has developed a batch render program (currently in beta) for Windows, Fast F12, which you can get more details and download from here http://nystic.com/blog/2009/06/07/fast-f12-beta-1-released/ FastF12 can render whole animations or individual frames and you can set it up to do the renders you need in batch so you can set it running, leave it, and when you

How to get the best out of internet radio, spotify, BBC iPlayer, VLC, WinAmp and Windows Media Player.

2009-06-10T00:09:00.002+01:00

Internet radio is great as is having your music stored on your computer. However there is one snag, you are pretty much tied to the location of your computer. If you are someone who likes listening to the radio or music while you are doing things round the house you may use an mp3 player or the good old FM radio. Of course the MP3 player is no good for streamed content like that provided by

Flight Data Recorder “Black Box” recovery. Lessons must be learned from Flight AF 447 tragedy.

2009-06-07T01:58:00.001+01:00

“Red Egg” FDR variant. Photo credit Leo Reynolds http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/ This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. The data held by black box flight recorders is essential for tracking down the causes of the loss or damage of an aircraft. This data is more vital today than ever because modern planes are fly by wire and therefore heavily dependant on

Polybore plus Moby= fantastic video for blogcatalog members and NOW also Twitter users.

2009-06-01T00:57:00.001+01:00

Major recording artist Moby has given explicit permission for polybore to use one of his tracks in the next edition of the I’Avatar video. Polybore has made a few editions of I’Avatar which is made up of blogcatalog members avatars, their user name and the URL of their blog all set to a cool sound track and… The latest version in best quality over at animoto watch here. Or on YouTube here

Polybore goes to Hollywood

2009-05-28T14:23:00.001+01:00

Tonight (28th of May 2009) polybore virtually goes to Hollywood. Or West Hollywood to be exact to the Pacific Design Centre. Unfortunately polybore will not be their in person but the video they created will be as it is being screened at the VIP theatrical premier of Steve Coogan and Hilary Duff’s new film “What Goes Up”. A sizable chunk of the video was … If, like polybore, you are

What is waterboarding? Video demonstration. Analysis of the logistics required for systematic waterboarding of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

2009-05-23T01:46:00.001+01:00

Update: A conservative radio host “Mancow” recently was waterboarded because he did not believe it was torture. After 6 seconds he changed his mind, waterboarding is torture. Here is the video. Waterboarding is when a prisoner is interrogated by restraining them on a board, a cloth is placed over their face and then water is poured over the cloth. The wet cloth clings to the persons face

Blogcatalog shoutbox embed code.

2009-05-18T22:41:00.001+01:00

If you are a blogcatalog user and you want your non- private shouts displayed on your website/ blog you can use this code. You just need to change “polybore” to your user name. If you need more info contact polybore. .csharpcode,

Example of Blogcatalog shoutbox RSS feed using Yahoo Pipes.

2009-05-12T03:33:00.001+01:00

{"pipe_id":"6799b9f222232748311acc2b86c2ed9d","_btype":"list"} If you would like to know how to do this contact polybore. Tutorial will follow.

What Goes Up Promotional Video posted to YouTube

2009-05-10T10:36:00.001+01:00

UPDATE: Tweaked Final Cut HD version now live on YouTube. Click the HD button and turn the volume up. Many thanks to Omar Modesto for the excellent almost end credits for the HD version. http://omarmodesto.110mb.com The video is good enough to be submitted to the competition now. Will continue to work on it though and will have a HD version of it up on YouTube soon. The music is a short

Video work in progress for Blogcatalog.com and the film “What Way Up”

2009-05-06T04:57:00.001+01:00

So far so good with this project. Still needs some tweaking so this is just a draft version just now. The music is a short clip of “Blue Straggler” by Elecrelane which is on the sound track of the film “What Goes Up” . It is a great track and would like to make the video longer to get a bit more of it on. When finished the video will be submitted to a competition being run by the producers

Passenger intercontinental air travel should be banned because it spreads diseases like H1N1 “swine” flu. Aircraft, the 21st Century virus vector.

2009-05-01T03:05:00.001+01:00

Whatever happens in the unfolding “swine flu” story it has taught humanity a valuable lesson. Once “swine flu” is consigned to history we can be certain that another virus will come along, perhaps one more deadly than “swine” flu. Like the current “swine” flu outbreak in Mexico by the time any future new virus can be identified it will be too late to prevent it from spreading round the world

Happy 19th Birthday Hubble Telescope.

2009-04-22T00:13:00.005+01:00

The Hubble Telescope celebrates it’s 19th year since it’s blast off into space on the shuttle Discovery in 1990. http://hubblesite.org/19 years of producing hundreds of incredible images like the one above. Happy Birthday indeed Hubble.Hubble’s successor will be the The James Webb Space Telescope (not a very catchy name will we call it James?) is due to be launched in 2013. James will be put into

Our Galaxy the Milky Way Actually Tastes of Raspberry (not Milk). Primordial Soup tasted of Raspberry?

2009-04-21T23:40:00.002+01:00

Ethyl formate, which tastes of raspberries, has been identified in space. Towards the centre source Sagittarius B2 to be precise. Today at The University of Hertfordshire, which is hosting The European Week of Astronomy & Space Science, R. Garrod Cornell University of Cornell University presented the facinating results of collaborative research between the Max Planck Institute for Radio

The End Comes for Google Adsense Video Units

2009-04-21T06:26:00.001+01:00

Video adsense units have not been performing well and now Google is pulling the plug. It is a shame in a way because they could have worked if the implementation had been better. As far as polybore could tell they were just a YouTube video unit with a contextual adsense ad on the player. Perhaps if the quality of the videos had been better and the publisher had been paid per video view rather

New Fantastic Super Slow Motion Video at 1000FPS HD. When fast equals slow.

2009-04-21T06:09:00.001+01:00

Produced by the new I-Movix SprintCam v3 HD. Who would have thought that 1000 frames per second could look so good. http://www.i-movix.com/ The start of the video shows footage shot at the Rugby World Cup. Later in the video, perhaps the most amazing footage in the video can be seen, of a variety of falling and bouncing objects. Incredible. The new camera is set to be shown off at NAB

What is waterboarding? Video demonstration. Analysis of the logistics required for systematic waterboarding of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

2009-04-20T19:12:00.001+01:00

Waterboarding is when a prisoner is interrogated by restraining them on a board, a cloth is placed over their face and then water is poured over the cloth. The wet cloth clings to the persons face and obstructs the prisoners breathing. The effect of waterboarding is simulated drowning. However the only difference between waterboarding and actual drowning is that water does not enter the

BlogCatalog’s malware incident was due to an unethical advertiser.

2009-04-20T00:34:00.001+01:00

After ignored email and locked discussion threads finally polybore has a definitive answer as to why Google listed BlogCatalog as unsafe during the malware incident. Previous posts on this: The initial incident and polybore’s speculation on the cause: http://polybore.blogspot.com/2009/03/blogcatalog-gets-hit-by-malware-trojan.html The request of explaination: http://polybore.blogspot.com/

Trivia 40 Stevens Point Wisconsin World’s Largest Trivia Contest or Worlds Largest Mass Google Search Contest? Cheating on huge scale!

2009-04-19T05:49:00.001+01:00

If you are looking for who won the quiz you can find out here. Unusual Google Search terms trends. Some weird search terms were topping the Google trends chart today. http://www.google.com/trends The plot thickens. Even more odd was that up to 70% of the searches were being made from a very small geographical area. Namely Stevens Point, Wisconsin http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

Why Arizona State University (ASU) Should Not Award Honorary Degree to Obama.

2009-04-13T03:47:00.001+01:00

Of the 180 Honorary degrees awarded by ASU since the 28th of May 1940 not one of them has been to a serving or past President of the United States. So why should Obama get one? Here is the complete list of past Honorary Degree Awards by Arizona State University (ASU). http://graduation.asu.edu/honorary/past There are no US Presidents on it.

Jonathan Weinberg or Sara Nathan, You’re Fired!? Sun journalists can’t even be bothered to pick up TV schedule before running “exclusive” story.

2009-04-10T00:51:00.001+01:00

The Sun newspaper (UK) is running an “exclusive” story based on Sir Alan Sugar supposedly missing the BBC show “The Apprentice” in which he stars. The Sun writes: “The hit BBC1 show was broadcast at 9pm, at the same time Jewish families across Britain were enjoying a traditional meal celebrating the religious festival of Passover.” http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/

New Image of very ill frail Kim Jung Il “Dear Leader”. North Korea Missile Story is a Smokescreen. What is the real story?

2009-04-06T01:11:00.001+01:00

Image of frail KimJung Il taken from still pictures shown by Korean State Television this week of Kim Jung Il inspecting a recently renovated museum. The recent N Korean missile firing story is something of a smoke screen to the real cause of concern regarding N Korea. Kim Jong Il "Dear Leader" will be dead soon. (going by the most recent pictures in weeks or less) so before long there will

Six random facts about polybore

2009-04-01T22:33:00.001+01:00

1. Polybore has a tendency to be very patronising. 2. Polybore (it is claimed) Googles everything anyone tells polybore to check it is true. 3. The polybore feet, on a good day, smell like a dead cat floating in a pit of sewage. 4. The offline polybore annoys people by constantly adding “oid” to the end of words not normally associated with this ending. e.g. “pass the mug-oid”, “where is

www.benefitshelpline.com Avoid at all costs. Benefits Helpline Disclaimer in plain text.

2009-03-29T00:47:00.001Z

Polybore is furious. After reading Kevin Nuttall’s blog http://www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk/news/blog/dont-get-fleeced,56,BA.html where he mentions to avoid Benefits Helpline polybore went and had a look at the site. It is not difficult to find the site in question because they have clearly paid Google a lot of money to be listed prominently. This sites provides so called benefits advice via

Obama’s three year target to double renewable energy production is unrealistic and will fail.

2009-03-20T15:06:00.001Z

Free Photo Bank Ok you can’t fault the sentiment. All countries need to increase the percentage of their energy generated by renewable sources. Unfortunately, when you do the arithmetic, the three year target for the US is clearly unattainable. If we take the current the current US percentage of renewable produced power to be 8%. And the us annual electrical consumption to be 4157 million

Why and how you need to harden your computer security against drive by Malware attack exploits. The danger of third party advertisements.

2009-03-18T22:09:00.001Z

Why? The problem with a drive by web page attack on your PC is that it is very difficult to avoid. All that needs to happen, for your computer to be at risk, is for you to open a web page with your browser. That’s it, even if you haven’t clicked on anything, if the malware code is on the page, and can run, then your computer’s security is at risk. Malware code is increasingly being placed in

Google Adsense Advertises Fake UK Driving Licences to Terrorists and Criminals

2009-03-17T15:19:00.001Z

Shocking ad served up by Google adsense on the Polybore blog yesterday. It is disgraceful, a fake UK driving licence is the sort of documentation a terrorist could use. Polybore is really quite angry and embarrassed about this as they have been complaining or making fun of ads on other websites recently. http://polybore.blogspot.com/2008/07/danger-of-carrying-ads-on-your-blog.html http://

Heartless Daily Express makes front page Jade Goody Gaffe

2009-03-16T22:03:00.001Z

http://www.express.co.uk/ourpaper/view/2009-03-16 What sort of an idiot decides that having a massive headline like that, above a picture of Jade Goody who is in the final stages of terminal cancer, is a good idea. Credit to Muig for spotting this and giving it to Polybore.

Download Retro Cinema Projector Video Animation .wmv Free (Some rights Reserved.)

2009-03-16T02:41:00.001Z

Preview on YouTube. (download version has logos removed) Polybore created this video using Blender 2.48. You can download this video and it and use it for your own project (please read the license agreement), like maybe your movie blog/ vlog/ presentation/ website/ promotional video etc. The download version is in .wmv format and has been edited so the logos have been removed. It

BlogCatalog response to their hosting Ad Malware sadly lacking in useful information.

2009-03-14T22:58:00.001Z

Click here to see the next post on this story. Click here to see previous post on this story. This is how they announced with a sticky post that the malware incident was “over”. http://www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/malware-issue-solved It is an inadequate explanation and it fails to give proper advice. Polybore pointed this out (at the very end of the discussion) and magically the sticky

Warning! Google Chrome incognito mode NOT incognito at all when streaming .WMV .avi and .wma media files. Privacy security failure.

2009-03-14T00:25:00.001Z

In brief: To run Google Chrome in incognito mode click on the spanner/ wrench at the top right and select- new incognito window. However it is worth bearing in mind that there is a big privacy hole in Chrome’s Incognito mode and it effects Firefox as well. Give it a try, launch Chrome in “Incognito mode” and stream this tiny and inoffensive Polybore .wmv file. Now check your Internet

Blogcatalog gets hit by malware Trojan distribution adverts.

2009-03-12T14:39:00.001Z

Update: BC finally reveal what happened here. It seems that some of the ads that BlogCatalog has been carrying are for websites which infect vulnerable computers with malware/ trojans. Here is the Google report on why they are issuing the warning. To see a larger clearer image of the report click here. It seems that malware distributing flash banners associated with the IP address

How to stop phpmyadmin login page from being accessed from internet via apache2 virtual server. Linux OS server.

2009-03-12T00:53:00.001Z

Polybore wanted to access phpmyadmin only from the local server, NOT from the internet. None of the solutions found via Google worked out so Polybore came up with this solution. Edit your virtual server configuration text file in /etc/apache2/sites-available. Modify the following to suit your set up and add within :

How to create an animated gif for your web space/ blog.

2009-03-10T13:52:00.001Z

In a previous post Polybore mentioned Aniboom as an online service for producing animated GIFs. http://polybore.blogspot.com/2008/07/using-aniboomcom-to-make-your-own.html Worth considering as an alternative is gifninja http://www.gifninja.com/ Gifninja is an online tool like aniboom. The main difference/ advantage is that you can upload your own images or, as Polybore has done, your own

How to add WAV audio to MPEG video (muxing) without re- encoding using free open source software.

2009-02-24T23:01:00.008Z

Like This? Click here for more Polybore Video ArticlesOk you have a MPEG video and you want to add sound to it in the form of a WAV file. This is how to do it for for free.You will need to download Aften.exe and an Aften GUI. You can get them here. http://www.videohelp.com/tools/AftenOnce you have downloaded and extracted them you just need to put the aften.exe file into the same folder as the

No, I said FRUIT!

2009-02-23T00:25:00.003Z

Click to enlarge.Whatever you think of the New York Post cartoon that has been in the news recently Polybore thinks we can pretty much agree it was not very funny. To try and lighten the mood here is Polybore's "amusing" derivative of the cartoon.All suggestions for improving the caption gratefully recieved.

Childrens cutlery makes the Law an ass.

2009-02-22T00:29:00.021Z

Click the images to enlarge..In the UK if you want to buy cutlery suitable for a 3 year old you need to have ID that proves that you are over 21. Actually the Law states that you need to be over 18 years old http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/CrimeJusticeAndTheLaw/CrimePrevention/DG_078569 but the shops are playing it safe and raising it to 21 in order to make sure their staff ask for ID. Sure it is a

Crawling baby mobile protection unit.

2009-02-21T01:04:00.008Z

Crawling 9mth old babies can really get around the house finding lots of interesting things to eat, dismantle and bang their heads on. It is an age old problem but being a new(ish) dad Polybore can look at this problem with a fresh pair of eyes and thinks that a solution may just be around the corner.To give you an idea of what this innovation may look like on completion here is a glimpse of what

Google 1234567890

2009-02-15T22:42:00.004Z

The Unix clock hit 1234567890 seconds On Feb 13th at 23:21:30 GMT. In a nod to all the geeks out there who stayed up to witness this event Google ran a spoof error for about half an hour. If you missed it here is a screen shot of perhaps the shortest ever example of Google celebrating an event.

The day the Muzak died.

2009-02-14T11:54:00.004Z

Muzak has gone bankrupt http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7886024.stmNow if this had happened a year ago Polybore would probably have been full of glee that the purveyors of soulless music had gone under. In the current economic circumstances, however, glee at people losing their jobs is not appropriate.Is this the end of inoffensive back ground music? Probably not, no doubt, the denizens of

World's largest Horse's Ass

2009-02-11T15:07:00.006Z

Kent, England is to build a huge white horse statue. Don't ask me why, maybe they swallowed a fly. It is already being compared to the "Angel of the North".Polybore can't see any comparison. One is an interesting sculpture and the other will be a giant horse's arse (ass). Well at least at one end. Maybe the largest horses ass in the world once it is built. Wonder which direction the ass will

Will photosynth ever be able to export point cloud to blender?

2008-10-09T02:23:00.004+01:00

Polybore has been having a lot of fun with blender recently You can the recent animated logo efforts here. http://www.watchblogvideos.com/2008/10/new-watchblogvideos-ident-v20.htmlPolybore has also been impressed by MicroSoft LiveLabs Photosynth. http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx Which automatically builds a 3d scene from your uploaded photos that you can navigate around. Check it out to see

How to convert and edit an animoto video using free software.

2008-09-18T17:48:00.010+01:00

Like This? Click here for more Polybore Video Articles Animoto is great and probably the best online tool polybore has ever found online. OK so you have created your awesome animoto video but for whatever reason you would like to edit it. In my case I wanted to add an ident (or logo) to the start of the video so when I shared it online I could promote my blog.

Mondeo MK3 engine warning light.

2008-09-12T14:40:00.003+01:00

Recently polybore has been involved in a bit of car diagnostic work. The engine warning light came on the dash of his 2001 MK3 V6 Mondeo. Now having had experience of paying mechanics to track down the symptoms of an engine warning light and how much this costs I thought I would at least try and identify the problem.The car was going to the garage to get new tyres so I asked them to plug the car

How to use an animal's brain to control a robot.

2008-08-25T00:25:00.005+01:00

Friendly looking little fella this robot that has a rat brain. To see the full story and a video via the BBC use this link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7559150.stmNow research work into alzheimer's is obviously commendable however despite polybore being a huge fan of technology polybore is a bit uneasy about robots with animal brains. Polybore also finds it odd that this story has not

Polybore goes OTT.

2008-08-20T23:54:00.004+01:00

Now I am off to apply the polybore stamp to all my boy's clothes.

How to make the perfect quiche quickly and easily.

2008-08-05T15:11:00.004+01:00

Like this recipe? Check out all the polybore recipes here.Polybore has become a quiche convert. It wasn't until I tried making quiche that I really appreciated how quick, easy and tasty this dish is. I'm late in adopting the quiche as, prior to conversion, I have been put off by shop bought quiche which, in my experience, have always been very bland.All you need is:Salt.Pepper.1 small onion.2

White noise rip off. Don't pay for white noise get it free.

2008-07-26T01:15:00.005+01:00

This has to be the closest thing I have ever seen to the sale of bottles of fresh air. As a recent first time Dad I know that a new parent is prepared to try anything to help their baby sleep. My wife and I did a bit of research and found that some people have found that white noise has helped babies go off to sleep.Interesting thought I, might as well give that a go. To my astonishment I found

Using aniboom.com to make your own animated gif.

2008-07-22T02:03:00.015+01:00

Update: Check out an excellent alternative to aniboom in a new Polybore post here: http://polybore.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-create-animated-gif-for-your-web.html Just a bit of fun really. Above is an animated gif I made using the aniboom online tool which you can find here http://www.aniboom.com/MicroSmotion/?ref=/animachines/header/ You can embed the animation tool in your blog or

The danger of carrying ads on your blog.

2008-07-18T20:19:00.003+01:00

Click on the pic for more detail.Polybore says "If you are going to condemn homosexuality in your blog you should be more careful about the ads you carry." For the blog in question in all it's glory http://imablogger.net/?p=32

Small rabbit causes $6 million damage.

2008-07-15T00:37:00.006+01:00

Polybore does not like rabbits, they are rats with good public relations. News of a small rabbit causing £3 million ($6 million) worth of damage to a drinking water system in an area of the UK helps polybore feel right in despising pesky rabbits.Anglian Water, the water company effected, detected the bug Cryptosporidium in it's water distribution system. This bug is a parasite which infects

Lunatic stockpiles one million match heads.

2008-07-14T00:29:00.007+01:00

You may have seen the story going round about a guy called Michael Arndt who built a full size replica F1 car out of match sticks. In fact close to a million match sticks 956,000. Well people reckon this is pretty cool. However something bothers polybore, what has he done with 956,000 match heads! Thats a lot of phosphorus sesquisulfide and potassium chlorate.I don't know exactly how much

France demonstrates her influence on World affairs.

2008-07-13T15:08:00.008+01:00

The US and UK's world standing is in tatters and they have about the same level of influence as a gnat has when it strikes the wind shield of a jet liner. Let's be generous and say "marginal".Meanwhile the much maligned, by certain US and UK commentators, France has pulled off three significant foreign policy successes in the past week. That is three more than George W Bush managed in his 8 year

Marcus Brigstocke creeps up his own arse.

2008-07-12T14:20:00.010+01:00

Marcus Brigstocke is a comedian whose material is largely based on current events and political commentary. I have to say I am something of a fan of his but his recent slot on the Now Show (BBC Radio 4) has angered polybore.Listening to this corduroy clad pompous ass crowing over the fact I will have to pay more car tax has touched a nerve. You can hear him opening his mouth and letting his belly

Eureka!

2008-07-08T00:06:00.014+01:00

Listen to the polybore droning this post. (mp3)Polybore has a lot of eureka moments. Unfortunately this happens so often that the excitement of realisation is quickly tempered by the remembrance of past experience. The thing is, if you have had a good idea it is very, very likely that someone else has had the idea before you. If no one else has had the idea then it is very probable that one's

Now that's what I call Torture.

2008-07-04T00:32:00.009+01:00

As part of it's "War Against Terror" the US military has tortured, or had people tortured, in various countries around the world including Afganistan, Morrocco and Iraq. Water boarding is the most notorious method of torture deployed against suspected terrorists. A less well known torture that has been extensively used, more so than water boarding, is the use of painfully loud music. Subjects of

Easy way to make a fantastic video to promote your blog or website.

2008-07-01T08:53:00.011+01:00

Like This? Click here for more Polybore Video ArticlesANIMOTO is a free web service that creates awesome slide shows using your uploaded images. You can add your own music, or their stock music, to the slide show and ANIMOTO will add video effects in time to the music. If you sign up for the free service via the links in this post you will get a 5% discount if you ever decide to buy the all

Expletive gets marks in an exam.

2008-06-30T22:28:00.005+01:00

One of Britain's top exam markers has caused a bit of a stir by awarding 2 marks out of 27 for an exam paper in which the student had only written "f*ck off". Without the star of course.You can see the story here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7481715.stmAnd in more detail here http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article4237491.eceNow I tend to agree that these marks

Time to pull the plug on Big Brother

2008-06-27T13:37:00.008+01:00

In the early hours of today following an argument amongst the contestants Dennis and Mohamed were separated. Dennis had spat in Mohameds face and has subsequently been kicked off the show.http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/news/newsstory.jsp?id=4208This alleged spitting incident comes after a housemate named Alexandra was removed from the show for implied threats of gang violence against other

Exterminate Exterminate Exterminate

2008-06-25T17:27:00.003+01:00

Polybore is a huge fan of the long running BBC TV series Dr Who. Genuine excitement being experienced at he moment at the imminent reappearance of an old friend, the uber villain Davros, along with his evil creation, the Daleks.

How to make fantastic easy perfect lemon cheese cake.

2008-06-25T00:58:00.014+01:00

Like this recipe? Check out all the polybore recipes here.This cheese cake is really easy to make, tastes simply amazing and is sure to be a hit at the dinner table. It is best made the day before to allow it to set overnight. It will keep in the fridge for several days once made and seems to get better with age although I can assure you my experience is they are quickly gobbled up. If you are a

Junkies fund the Taliban

2008-06-24T23:42:00.006+01:00

According to the UN the Taliban raked in a cool $100 million in 2007 from opium production in Afghanistan last year. While the Coalition and world aid agencies pump in hundreds of millions of dollars to help Afghanistan the world's junkies pump in millions of dollars to the Afghan opium industry. The Taliban use this money to acquire armaments to kill Coalition troops and Afghan civilians.So if

Spotted Flycatcher

2008-06-21T18:09:00.004+01:00

I've not seen one of these little chaps in my garden for years. The Spotted Flycatcher is unfortunately endangered these days. I'm so pleased that I have seen at least two of them and they have a nest hidden away somewhere in the garden. They are great wee birds with lots of character. Well I suppose you need character if you are that wee and travel from Africa to the NE of Scotland and back

The Afghanistan Exit Strategy.

2008-06-18T17:14:00.005+01:00

It is the fighting season once again in Afghanistan, for Afghans it has been like this, pretty much every year, for as long as anyone can remember. Polybore has been following the events in Afghanistan since the Soviet invasion of 1979 when as a precocious 7 year old I wrote to Margaret Thatcher to suggest trade sanctions against the USSR in order to put pressure on them to withdraw.Well Polybore

Firefox's denial of service attack on itself.

2008-06-18T00:41:00.009+01:00

As far as publicity stunts go this has to be one of the stupidest I have ever seen. Firefox's record breaking attempt knocked out their promotional web site spreadfirefox.com and reduced their customer's download speed to sub dial up.Maybe the publicity will end up in a few more downloads of Firefox, maybe even they will get into the Guinness Book of Records. One thing is for sure they have

Weak Bridge.

2008-06-17T03:21:00.003+01:00

I drive over this bridge in order to cross a river pretty much every day. Suffice to say it does not inspire me with much confidence. Bridge and weak are not words that should go together as far as Polybore is concerned. Would you get on a plane that had a sign on it saying weak wings?