Let's try this again shall we

Well the blog has really been living up to its name recently. So in an attempt to get back into the habit I've installed a plugin fror FireFox called Deepest Sender; apparently it's an anagram, but at the moment I can't be bothered to work out of what.

Anyway I've got it set up with a toolbar button which opens a sidebar into which I am now typing this entry. This has to be about the least effort adding a blog entry can be so if the posting rate doesn't pick up soon then I am just rubbish.

I was amused by an article in yesterday's Guardian about the current premium rate dialler problem. What most amused me was in the advice section.

The risks of falling foul of these problems can be significantly reduced by switching to broadband, though some experts say it is not entirely safe.

Well actually as long as you've unplugged your phone line from your computer then I would say you are 100% safe from these particular problems. I'd like to see a web site get my cable modem to dial an 090 number.

But the best is:-

With broadband you should be okay if you are linked to the web via an external modem and use micro-filters.

Huh? This sounded like complete rubbish to me - aren't micro filters what you have in your vacuum cleaner? So I did a quick google and discovered that micro filters do mean something in the context of ADSL. Unfortunately for the author of the article unless he's saying that a website can cause your ADSL modem to cause exactly the right kind of interference on the line to convince it do dial the premium rate number then he is in fact still talking bollocks.

Maybe I should send it into the Bad Science section...