Category Archives: General

General Information about, well, general things.

WordPress Upgrade 2

12 January 2008 – 14:15

OK - after a failed Internet connection here at the hotel halfway through the process, Thomo’s Hole is back. Will re-enable various features slowly today and bring them online.

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WordPress Upgrade

12 January 2008 – 0:17

I’m upgrading Thomo’s Hole today - so - oddball things may happen over the coming hours. The really, really oddball will be if you can’t see this message anyway - then I will really have buggered it up.
So, check back in later and see if I was successful without having to resort to the assistance [...]

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Even More Success - SPAM = 2xViews

26 December 2007 – 2:08

From the site stats:
Akismet has protected your site from 21,144 spam comments.
Counterize II Status »
Total: 72925 hits and 10725 unique.
Today: 191 hits and 80 unique.
So - even more successful then before - now SPAM is twice the number of views.

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Toilet Etiquette

25 November 2007 – 17:17

Saudi Arabian bathrooms are awash much of the time due to the use of copious amounts of water for cleaning.
Today I have an issue to deal with. Just after washing my hands and as I was starting to walk out of the toilet I noticed that my shoelace was undone … and wet.
What should I [...]

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C-Men Arrest Man for Blackmailing Women

9 November 2007 – 14:48

From the 6 November issue of the Arab News, it seems that the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (our by now famous buffoons also known as the C-Men or the Ministry of Licentiousness and Lasciviousness), have allegedly being doing good things. There was a report about the C-Men in Mahd-al-Dahab [...]

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Three Syllables, Sounds Like …

22 September 2007 – 21:40

I just arrived back in the hotel room in time to see CNN’s coverage of the great gorilla run in London - Emily Chang reporting. This is an annual 7 mile run through the streets of London (and elsewhere I suspect) with folks dressed in gorilla suits, the object being to raise awareness for the [...]

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Changes and Updates to the Hole

21 September 2007 – 18:07

I’ve been busy today updating in the engine room of Thomo’s Hole as well as providing a work around to some of the shortcomings of my theme and my widgets. Whilst the search box to the left will still not search static web-pages in Thomo’s Hole, I have added an “Archive Post” way back in [...]

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Colonic Plaque

8 September 2007 – 14:13

I was watching a show on Zone Reality TV here the other day called The Spa of Embarrassing Illnesses. It is about a bunch of Pommies taken to a really exclusive resort in Spain’s Andulsian mountains for a holistic detox to fix their bad skin, weight, smoking, emotional and other issues.
I won’t go into too [...]

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More Bad Chinese Product

29 June 2007 – 10:59

Seems the Chinese are hell-bent on destroying their own markets (unlike the Indians who have at least learned to listen to their markets and try and move forward with them). In the latest saga of Chinese firms cheating on the ingredients to increase bottom-line profits, the New Your Times reports again, this time on tainted [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, China | Comments (0)

F.D.A. Tracked Tainted Drugs, but Trail Went Cold in China

18 June 2007 – 10:12

Back on May 7th this year I posted an entry on this blog about From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine which concerned the export of “a poisonous solvent sold by counterfeiters and mixed into drugs [which] has figured in mass poisonings around the world that killed thousands.” The blog entry originated from [...]

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