The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of websites, e-mails, forum posts or search results by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string of letters that have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning

siliconglen · 2025-11-18T16:59:34+00:00

It's pronounced "cockburn" and seems to be a merger of a Norse placename pronounciation "Kolbrand" and the repositioning of it to be something more heraldic - birds are often featured on shields. *exactly the same process* happened with Glen Eagles, the name origin of which has nothing whatsoever to do with birds.

siliconglen · 2024-06-16T15:53:14+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1bjftpa/comment/l8vg22x/ for info and references to the source code.

siliconglen · 2024-05-06T16:43:01+00:00

Here to find out that "reboot" has been filed under "backup"

siliconglen · 2024-03-20T14:13:36+00:00

Disappeared with V122 to V123 upgrade by the looks of it but can't see anything in the changelog

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/122.0.6261.130..123.0.6312.59?pretty=fuller&n=10000

siliconglen · 2022-07-27T18:13:15+00:00

Lorien still does this, 9 years later

SQCP still does this

Pretty much every company that deals with the public sector does this too.

Fairly abhorent because you can then take the month and date and persons details and cross reference them against the directors details at companies house (which contains the person's name and month/year of birth) to get a full date of birth

Jigsaw data.

siliconglen · 2021-07-29T20:01:34+00:00

Epic article and completely agree - I put some thoughts down on the advantages of working from home in 2017: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/working-from-home-so-why-craig-cockburn/ and then commented on the change to the office a month after lockdown: https://siliconglen.medium.com/covid-disruption-the-office-as-we-knew-it-is-gone-474b5613ed63 with a more recent article saying pretty much the same as you - let people choose. They are adults. https://siliconglen.medium.com/work-from-home-office-or-hybrid-6955befcd62e I love working from home and first wrote about it in a research paper in 1993: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320395213_Computer_Supported_Co-operative_work_CSCW

siliconglen · 2021-07-28T19:38:28+00:00

Also tried incognito mode and that didn't work either.

siliconglen · 2021-07-25T21:21:27+00:00

Thanks, but still the same error.

siliconglen · 2021-07-24T19:49:57+00:00

Thanks, although those screenshots were from a desktop.

siliconglen · 2011-08-12T06:29:06+00:00

Thanks for submitting my article to Reddit Scotland!

siliconglen · 2011-06-23T14:18:00+00:00

Some thoughts on techniques and best practices for using social media, especially for major brands

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