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Our friends B&C (our fellow travellers in Paris) have had their Hotmail account hacked and subsequently blocked. The attack came via an email from a friendly address which had itself been hacked. B contacted the Hotmail Abuse team via email (from a new address) and was given some links to supposedly help him, although these took him to pages he had already found on the 'abuse' page. When these didn't work he was asked for a mobile number and was given a code which he had to enter in a specific dialogue box to unlock the account. This did not work. The response to his latest email to Microsoft (where he told them the code had not worked) told him that they felt they had given all the advice he needed and would no longer answer his queries.
B has set up another email address and had a record of quite a number of his email contacts. However, another person affected by the same attack had TalkTalk as a supplier and they have a facility to transfer an address book from one account to another.
The questions are:
1) Does Hotmail have a similar facility to transfer contacts from one address to another? And will he ever be able to use this if he cannot unblock his original account?
2) Does anyone have any ideas of what he can do to try and unblock the account now that Microsoft have turned their backs?
3) Has anyone any experience of emails being blocked (from hacking or otherwise, Hotmail or otherwise)? If so do you have any useful advice?
I will leave this post open to the public so B can see your responses.
Such is the awesome power of you, my internet friends that B rang specifically asking if I could ask you for help.
Meanwhile the rest of us will go and print out an up-to-date list of our email contacts lest the same should happen to us...
B has set up another email address and had a record of quite a number of his email contacts. However, another person affected by the same attack had TalkTalk as a supplier and they have a facility to transfer an address book from one account to another.
The questions are:
1) Does Hotmail have a similar facility to transfer contacts from one address to another? And will he ever be able to use this if he cannot unblock his original account?
2) Does anyone have any ideas of what he can do to try and unblock the account now that Microsoft have turned their backs?
3) Has anyone any experience of emails being blocked (from hacking or otherwise, Hotmail or otherwise)? If so do you have any useful advice?
I will leave this post open to the public so B can see your responses.
Such is the awesome power of you, my internet friends that B rang specifically asking if I could ask you for help.
Meanwhile the rest of us will go and print out an up-to-date list of our email contacts lest the same should happen to us...
- Current Mood:
hopeful
So now I have to ask 
fredbassett and liars_dance what do I need to know about Aga and Rayburn cooking?
I know virtually nothing at the moment, but several of the houses we have details for have one or other. I know you can get gas agas simply to cook on and that they don't have to be the whole heating/water system. But are most agas doing the whole job? I think of rayburns as always being the entire heating/water/cooking unit. What questions would we need to ask about them? I presume they have to be serviced like any other heating system?
A lot of the places we are looking for properties don't have mains gas, so are on solid fuel or oil. When my parents moved to the village they retired to there was no mains gas and they changed their system from solid fuel to oil. Since then oil prices have rocketed, but gas is not the cheap product it once was.
We are a bit unsure about the thought of an aga/rayburn, but it is through lack of experience. Any info would be useful. Thanks in advance.
fredbassett and liars_dance what do I need to know about Aga and Rayburn cooking? I know virtually nothing at the moment, but several of the houses we have details for have one or other. I know you can get gas agas simply to cook on and that they don't have to be the whole heating/water system. But are most agas doing the whole job? I think of rayburns as always being the entire heating/water/cooking unit. What questions would we need to ask about them? I presume they have to be serviced like any other heating system?
A lot of the places we are looking for properties don't have mains gas, so are on solid fuel or oil. When my parents moved to the village they retired to there was no mains gas and they changed their system from solid fuel to oil. Since then oil prices have rocketed, but gas is not the cheap product it once was.
We are a bit unsure about the thought of an aga/rayburn, but it is through lack of experience. Any info would be useful. Thanks in advance.
Seriously - I had no idea these were still around. I cannot remember the last time I had some, but it was YEARS ago.
Apart from being smaller than I remember (but what childhood treats have grown with age?) they are exactly the same. Amazing.
http://www.rowntrees.co.uk/range/
Apart from being smaller than I remember (but what childhood treats have grown with age?) they are exactly the same. Amazing.
http://www.rowntrees.co.uk/range/
While I remember...
I have long wanted to try perry. This is a wine made from specific perry pears. I love pears and pear flavoured things, so have wanted to give it a try.
Last week I was doing my shop in Aldi and spotted a 'wine box' with a pear on the front. On closer inspection it contained 3l of still perry from Norfolk. Thinking 3l was rather a lot to get through I saw it was only £3.99 so decided it give it a go. I would highly recommend anyone vaguely interested gives it a try. It has only a slight pear flavour. Really it is more like a fruit juice - and you have to remember it is alcohol! But at 7.5% alcohol it's very light. As with all wine boxes it has a little spout affair to dispense the liquid, and seems to be 'keeping' the wine OK.
Extremely pleasant and well worth a go. It strikes me that it would be great if you were having friends round for a summer evening - a good talking point and not expensive.
I have long wanted to try perry. This is a wine made from specific perry pears. I love pears and pear flavoured things, so have wanted to give it a try.
Last week I was doing my shop in Aldi and spotted a 'wine box' with a pear on the front. On closer inspection it contained 3l of still perry from Norfolk. Thinking 3l was rather a lot to get through I saw it was only £3.99 so decided it give it a go. I would highly recommend anyone vaguely interested gives it a try. It has only a slight pear flavour. Really it is more like a fruit juice - and you have to remember it is alcohol! But at 7.5% alcohol it's very light. As with all wine boxes it has a little spout affair to dispense the liquid, and seems to be 'keeping' the wine OK.
Extremely pleasant and well worth a go. It strikes me that it would be great if you were having friends round for a summer evening - a good talking point and not expensive.
Over at 
adventures_in we are doing a Farewell (for now) Countdown of the favourite 20 topics covered by the community. You are all welcome to come over and have a look. Yesterday (in 17th place) was Gay Cinema, a topic I covered a while ago. For those who aren't members, but might be interested anyway I post my entry here.
As I said I did this list off the top of my head, without huge thought. Really I could do a top 20 very easily, and would still be having to leave out things I enjoy watching. I left out 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show', 'Bent', 'My Own Private Idaho', 'Mysterious Skin', did not include any Almodovar...
I thought I'd just go with trailers for my top 10 favourite films with gay content. ( Read more...Collapse )
adventures_in we are doing a Farewell (for now) Countdown of the favourite 20 topics covered by the community. You are all welcome to come over and have a look. Yesterday (in 17th place) was Gay Cinema, a topic I covered a while ago. For those who aren't members, but might be interested anyway I post my entry here.As I said I did this list off the top of my head, without huge thought. Really I could do a top 20 very easily, and would still be having to leave out things I enjoy watching. I left out 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show', 'Bent', 'My Own Private Idaho', 'Mysterious Skin', did not include any Almodovar...
I thought I'd just go with trailers for my top 10 favourite films with gay content. ( Read more...Collapse )
- Current Mood: happy
Jon Favreau was involved when Sean Bean was put into a cowboy outfit. Now he's doing it with Daniel Craig. (Strangley it's cowboys and aliens as a theme again
http://www.collider.com/2010/05/20/jon-favreau-cowboys-and-aliens-daniel-craig-image-tweet/
http://www.collider.com/2010/05/20/jon-favreau-cowboys-and-aliens-daniel-craig-image-tweet/
Before I forget to post about this...
On Monday night Peter noted that there was a drama on telly starring Maxine Peake. We like Maxine and try and catch stuff that she does. So we watched. It was a drama about Anne Lister - an 'openly' lesbian woman in regency times (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2010/05/anne-listers-diaries-from-page.shtml) Fascinating.
Anne wrote a diary running to 4 million words and therefore being twice as many words as Pepys. She wrote explicitly about her thoughts and actions - with the explicit stuff being written in a code. The drama was followed by a documentary narrated by Sue Perkins (for whom I have a great deal of time). She commented on her own lack of knowledge of this woman and how history would have been far more interesting to her as a kid had characters such as Anne been highlighted. I did a course looking at the role of women in the UK economy and we never dealt with women as land owners at this time (I suppose because they were so rare). Yet this woman was a landowner, sunk a coal mine on her land, was a very successful business woman and as Sue Perkins pointed out, moulded other women to fit in with her business and leisure activities. She probably had the first 'official' civil partnership, with her marriage being blessed in the church.
As was said in the documentary, previous to this we have the women of Jane Austen as guides of social niceties in this era. Yet in Anne Lister we see a totally different outlook on life of the times. Totally fascinating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Lister
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Know-Own-Heart-1791-1840-Literature/dp/0814792499
On Monday night Peter noted that there was a drama on telly starring Maxine Peake. We like Maxine and try and catch stuff that she does. So we watched. It was a drama about Anne Lister - an 'openly' lesbian woman in regency times (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2010/05/anne-listers-diaries-from-page.shtml) Fascinating.
Anne wrote a diary running to 4 million words and therefore being twice as many words as Pepys. She wrote explicitly about her thoughts and actions - with the explicit stuff being written in a code. The drama was followed by a documentary narrated by Sue Perkins (for whom I have a great deal of time). She commented on her own lack of knowledge of this woman and how history would have been far more interesting to her as a kid had characters such as Anne been highlighted. I did a course looking at the role of women in the UK economy and we never dealt with women as land owners at this time (I suppose because they were so rare). Yet this woman was a landowner, sunk a coal mine on her land, was a very successful business woman and as Sue Perkins pointed out, moulded other women to fit in with her business and leisure activities. She probably had the first 'official' civil partnership, with her marriage being blessed in the church.
As was said in the documentary, previous to this we have the women of Jane Austen as guides of social niceties in this era. Yet in Anne Lister we see a totally different outlook on life of the times. Totally fascinating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Lister
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Know-Own-Heart-1791-1840-Literature/dp/0814792499
- Current Mood:
impressed
I had a fairly free day yesterday so I thought I'd catch up on here and upload some pictures. Couldn't get an internet connection ALL DAY. Bummer. So here I am this morning - and everything is fine. But of course I have jobs to do today...
In brief - we had a great long weekend. Managed Monday in the garden doing all sorts of tidying up jobs. Finally got the veg plot planted up - mostly with onions (we're giving these a try this season). Bought some rainbow swiss chard while we were away and decided to try that in a tub (as the books said this was good in pots and we can have it by the living room window and enjoy the colour!). Peter bent a spade digging up the fuchsia that had died. I have netted the redcurrants. The birds have already stripped quite a few fruit (still very green) and I wanted to get at least some fruit off the trees this year.
Off to catch up, then do jobs. Hopefully I'll be able to be back later *waves*.
In brief - we had a great long weekend. Managed Monday in the garden doing all sorts of tidying up jobs. Finally got the veg plot planted up - mostly with onions (we're giving these a try this season). Bought some rainbow swiss chard while we were away and decided to try that in a tub (as the books said this was good in pots and we can have it by the living room window and enjoy the colour!). Peter bent a spade digging up the fuchsia that had died. I have netted the redcurrants. The birds have already stripped quite a few fruit (still very green) and I wanted to get at least some fruit off the trees this year.
Off to catch up, then do jobs. Hopefully I'll be able to be back later *waves*.
