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Saw a neat tweet from @sam_bambs today: You can spell the word ‘upside down’ upside down by using other letters of the alphabet: umop apisdn Ranks along with “eleven plus two” = “twelve plus one”.

Unable to connect to my own website or Cpanel this morning, even though checkers show that both are up, so looks like a routing issue – which a traceroute confirmed: packets go from my ISP (Origin Broadband) to some outfit called Call27 (who don’t even have a working website yet…), and then timeout. Of course,

aka “Unfortunately Guardian”. The bloody Guardian android app is becoming totally unusable with its constant “Unfortunately, Guardian has stopped” messages. And past experience shows that it’s a waste of time reporting issues to them. To think, I used to be a paid subscriber: you’re no fun any more, Genghis…

Aches and pains… The doc confirmed today that I have Tennis Elbow, and used the word “degenerate” (verb, not noun): once you hear that word, you know it’s all going downhill – and even downhill will probably leave you out of breath. Also had my first flu jab while I was there. Supposedly available once