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Top 10 Geeky One Liners

Welcome back to Geeky Sunday, my weekly repost from the archives of my old blog, Geekystuff.co. This post was originally published on Geekystuff.co in December 2011.  (Why am I moving Geekystuff.co posts?)

10. Hit any user to continue.

9. Relax, its only ONES and ZEROS!

8. If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0.

7. CAPS LOCK – Preventing Login Since 1980.

6. Mac users swear by their Mac, PC users swear at their PC.

5. C: Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner.

4. Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there’s Google.

3. Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

2. The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

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Credit Score Drama: How I Broke It Without Even Trying

 

Yesterday I woke up to an email from Equifax the credit agency advising me that something had changed on my credit report. I receive these emails all the time and normally it’s nothing to worry about, maybe a soft search from another credit agency, today however I was shocked to see my score had dropped 56 points. A big drop and I had no idea why, I hadn’t bought anything on credit and none of my details had changed. read more

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Brain Farts – Thoughts from the Top of My Head

 

I used to use Twitter (now X) as the place where I’d dump random thoughts, random articles, random rants, basically the short stuff. After Emperor Musk took charge, I moved most of that to Bluesky, but in reality my posting on either platform has dropped considerably. I’m much more interested in posting here and making this blog the one-stop shop for Mike Isherwood. My thoughts, my ideas, my ramblings, just me being random. read more