Duffy - Warwick Avenue live from Later... With Jools Hollan

I absolutely love the, what I believe to be Mowtown sound of her stuff, this track and another one called 'Mercy'. A Wikipedia article called it blue-eyed soul--whatever that is. Whatever genre it is, it's fabulous. As Jools Holland says, 'turn your set up'.

Cold calls and phone scams

A short but sweet entry today. Well OK if not sweet maybe useful? A couple of links for you that are now dear to my heart. The first may be of interest to those of us in the UK, but the second may help those of you in other countries, too.

First of all I've had a fair few cold callers lately, even though I'm part of the Telephone Preference service. What I didn't know is, that not only can you, once signed up, reduce the amount of cold calls you get--and I have to admit I have far fewer now--but the ones you do get, you can also do something about. Here's a great article I found on the subject:
How to stop cold callers | This is Money

A definite "add to favourites".


Also, I've had a good few calls saying my computer has been hacked, or that it's downloaded some malware--had one today actually--so I looked that up on the net and found another very interesting article on the Microsoft site:
Avoid Phone Scams | Cybercriminal Tech Support Scam | Security Threats


Please don't get caught folks, read that article and be wise to these ... (add your own suitable word here).

Cheers,
Simon
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Shara McCallum: The Process of Writing Poetry

Every now and then, I'll post stuff I find on YouTube here--mostly to do with writing, but there may be other things, too. This first one is an conversation I found with Shara McCallum. I must admit to being attracted to her voice first--perhaps typical bloke of me, but I really hadn't heard of her before. So checking out her work, now, though. Enjoy the video. :)

Welcome

Hi folks, and welcome to my personal blog. Haven't had one of these for a while, fancied having one again, so here I am.

As far as what's going to be here, it's business as usual. Personal updates, cool stuff I find, surveys I'm interested in posting, and other random and silly stuff. The only thing I ask is that you not take it seriously all the time, I won't be.


Till next time,
Cheers,
Simon