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I have asked this question many times – What price be put on history? Something to the tune of – We’ve always had the government, MPs in the Houses of Parliament. But now it needs a costly uplift. Something to the tune of £50billion. It is an interesting argument because London itself would not like to lose the Houses of Parliament, frankly they should as it is not fit for purpose. It cannot house all the MPs, easily seen at PM’s Questions. It is like a chicken coup! Looking at the so-called debating chamber (the one with the green leather benches) one can easily come to the conclusion it is made for two opposing parties. Moreover allowing these parties to continually shout and gesture at each other. That surely is NOT proper politics? To see Diane Abbott mouthing platitudes at the Home Secretary does not really help I think. To continually hear 5 or 6 questions fired from the Opposition Leader to the Prime Minister about some accident that has befallen an unlucky resident of some...

Voor lezers in Nederland, tenminste als die er zijn, wonende in Wales zou ik elke reiziger oftewel vakantie houder aanwijzen om eens naar Wales te komen. Er is zoveel geschiedenis, kastelen, de taal dat allemaal erg interessant is! Tegenwoordig is er keus genoeg, hotels, kampeer plaatsen, zogenaamde 'bed and breakfast' (bed en ontbijt). Dus als er iets leuks moet gebeuren met familie, kinderen, ooms, tantes, nichten en neven, Wales heeft een antwoord! Doei!

Wi'n dysgu Cymraeg, wel oherwydd wi'n byw yng Nghymru wrth gwrs! Dim poeni am y gamgymeriadau. Ond yn ystod yr wythnos diwetha, gwers Cymraeg yn Coleg y Cymoedd, roedden ni yn siariad am yr Amgueddfa Gwerin Cymru a symud yr hen adeiladau i'r lle ger Caerdydd. Un o'r fath symudiad oedd hen sied clogiwr o Sir Penfro. Hyfryd iawn! Wi'n gobeithio ymweld yr amgueddfa ac edrych â'r arddangosfa!

Ah, the good and interesting Russians are now infiltrating every single home computer in the good 'ol UK. An interesting concept. But all the same I do think we should take computers and the Net a bit more serious. If you are, like myself, have a website at least ensure it has a SSL certificate. That means all outgoing stuff is encrypted (HTTPS). Google also seems to have added an extension to that named HSTS. I am not exactly sure what that does or how but it adds extra security. So, it all gets down to the wire. But at least your computer will not be used in Man of the Middle attacks (MITM). The Russians or indeed the naughty Americans or even the very naughty script kiddies can't get at you so easy! Also do not answer those wonderful offers of free money from these interesting Africans who obviously have defrauded their own country to the tune of billions. It is pretty laughable as these countries have no money whatsoever. In any case it is a badly worded, easy detectable sc...

The furore around Facebook and also Twitter about the collecting of data by nefarious third parties. Including it is said foreign states (i.e they mean Russia of course). It seems from a TV appearance by Mr Zuckerberg on the news channels that there is a cyber war going on. No, really? Where did he get that idea? Any computer user by now knows that computers are not safe and that whatever is put on, text, pictures or whatever else can be seen by every Tom, Di*k and Harry around the world, if they would wish to do so. It worries me that the CEO of a massive company appears to be as dull and silly as that. And he is not on his own either. Money talks and money talks even louder with companies engaged in the cyber industry. The black truth is a very simple one. You start-up your computer and basically you say – Yoo-hoo here I am, come and get me...’ . Fortunately most of us are just not interesting enough to bother with but tell that to the average 16 year old who is trying his or ...

To all my readers - you can now read my blog on my own network. It will still be readable etc on Blogger but now also on https://blog.dutchenery.net Happy reading! Latest update - It's all working now as intended. The SSL certificate is installed so the linlk between you and me via the website is encrypted. If you read the blog via the tonyrefail-town.net url then that is also encrypted by Google/Blogger. Have fun. If you were looking at the site prior to me making some corrections you should 'refresh' the cache. You do that in Chrome as follows: Click on the three dots in the top bar. Click on 'more tools' and select 'Clear browsing data'. Still some problems with the Contact page - I'm trying to make it as safe as can be. But that takes a lot more coding than I have really time for but still.. Update as in July 2018 - blog.dutchenery.net is now discontinued. The main website - dutchenery.net has no longer a Contact page. It is not that I don...

The year is flowing by faster and faster or so it seems. It is getting a bit hard to keep up with blogs. Especially as I am again going to college to extend my Welsh language. Wel, pam ddim? Wi’n wedi ceisio’n ddigon hir. Beth bynnag (Anyway) I was reading a book in which I found some interesting idea about the Universe. Usually kid’s books don’t have deep insights but this one ‘The Wizards of Once’ by Cressida Cowell (of ‘How to to train your Dragon’ fame) has a few. Interesting. Question: Was there a limit to the expanding universe, or would it go on expanding forever? If space was infinite and stars were infinite didn’t that mean that there must also be infinite numbers of Crushers out there? By the way Crushers were some individual giant, for that you could easily put yourself in its place. Even so it is an interesting question, one of those I have been pondering over. First of all I believe that space, ie a nothingness, quiet, empty, is infinite. Within that spac...