Ideas 30-2...Information Technology

To advertise on the internet you can type 'Google ads' or 'Microsoft ads' into the browser search window. After giving it your domain name, you then enter five lines of text of not more than thirty words and spaces. The first three lines are regarded as titles, but all the sentences must be written normally, with no excess use of capital letters. There is also no colour or font size to select. Your sentences should preferably employ words that are in popular use at the time. My wording was as follows:

With a limit of 30 words including spaces, you have to be very creative, whilst I fail to see how it could stand out in ordinary text with no colour. As for David Icke, he had just been thrown out of the social networking site Twitter, after being banned from Facebook and YouTube, for conspiracy theories, after amassing 382,000 readers. The thought of grabbing some of them proved irresistible.

As can be seen, there are three rates to choose from, and I needed about 100,000 readers. Using the top rate at an average of 450 readers per day, it would take 222 days to reach that goal; which would cost 8,880 pounds. I don't know whether this is on Google's Display Network which shows annoying ads whilst your in intense thought as you read something, clicking off the distraction without reading it; or whether its on the Google Search Network, where you ignore the ad because it's not what you are looking for, in that mad rush at the time. My heart palpitations told me that I would be wasting my money, so I instead got down to listening to my mp3s. Being offered 75 pounds of free advertising if I paid 40 pounds I think it was, proved no incentive.

I looked at the rates and decided that the service was too expensive for my line of work, which basically was just a hobby, with no income being generated. I couldn't charge a membership fee because I had no members, and as for a contribution appeal on the internet; I would probably be looked upon as a spiv by most people, since I hadn't even got a registered charity. Advertising through social networking sites at a third of the cost of Google didn't sound great either, as most of those targeted wouldn't be interested in politics and economics. It was obvious to me that I needed to employ another means of advertising, one where I would be doing most of the work. There would have to be no scatter gun approach to it. It would have to be targeted at organisations and senior people in them, namely through email marketing. The trouble was that I didn't know which sector of the workplace would find my website most appealing.

To get email marketing information proved an exercise in astronomy without a telescope. Despite all the reading on numerous websites I was left totally bewildered. I had to sign up with snov.oi and then linkedin.com, where I also sign up for the chrome extension that links these two apps to the browser; in my case Microsoft Edge. Linkedin finds the data sort by snov.io which is the user interface. There are three payable rates on snov.io, plus a smaller offer which is free to use. Click on the link and read the article on gizmobase.com first, to get an idea of what you're getting into. I was unable to get my password to work in linkedin. I think you have to be a limited company to use it. I got fobbed around from one website to another, unable to determine how to create mailing lists. I think many of these are nothing more than recruitment agencies, or high end public relations organisations, serving companies for a very large fee. In the end I realised that I would have to use lists that were already available, such as those from the news media. Unfortunately these are lists of reporters and editors many of whom do not specialize in politics, constitutional change, and probably work for magazines, etc. I therefore decided to create lists of politicians, the websites for which are listed in chapter 39 How to Create a World Technocracy. In your case, when it comes to a circular or press release, you know your product or service better than a PR company be they public relations or press release. You know your customers and more importantly your competitors. Very often I see advertisements on TV and I'm asking myself, what are they selling, or who is selling, and invariably they are spending too much on advertising whilst trying to sell a cheap product. Some advertisements make me cringe, whilst none of them entice me to buy. These days I buy on the internet. My essential groceries are bought from a supermarket and delivered to me. If it wasn't delivered I'd go elsewhere. Needless to say most of my non-food items are bought either on eBay or Amazon, and that is where I look at the advertising. Small firms can advertise on eBay or Amazon, but can't on Tesco because it has a different business model. Tesco is a pre-internet established company, whilst suppliers have little clout because their products are low tech, with much competition. There are relatively few retail chains in the UK, whilst their names can be found in Yellow Pages and trade journals or at trade fairs.

For an email campaign it is necessary to have an email signature. To create one in your browser click on the gear wheel icon in Gmail > See All Settings > Signature > Create New > Add the photo or logo, plus phone, email & website details, edit font and colour > Save Changes. You are allowed to send 100 emails from your own internet connection per day. In addition I was faced with whom to send them to. Since my website was not commercial there would be no financial motivation involved. There are 1.9 billion websites in existence, and with only one person visiting my website for more than one minute in the five months that its been active, it was clear that the marketing would have to be accurate. I had already gone to Pressat, where to market my website on an international basis would cost me about 770 pounds including tax per circular. This cost was broken down into numerous organisations which I could select maybe one at a time, since I did not want to be overloaded with a heavy email response. It was clear to me that the thought of doing this via the social network was unrealistic, including Bing, Google, Facebook, forums, etc. The thought of subliminal TV advertising employing mass hypnosis did cross my mind. If there's anybody out there that knows how to make it work.......

Email search and marketing list site

You can create a website email address for free from gmail, etc. Alternatively you can get it free from your web host. The advantage of the former is that if you change your web host, you don't have to change your email address. If you want customers to phone you whilst reading your website, then you need to set up a 'click to contact button' details of which can be found on the internet. You may also want to register your trade mark, via your government website. If you only have a few hundred addresses in your email marketing list then it's best to send them from gmail which restricts batch emails to one hundred. To send them out create an email as normal, then copy your list of email addresses, which must be in csv format on a spreadsheet, and after clicking Cc or Bcc, paste them into the address line after entering the initial address into the To location. For larger quantities use the extension facility to gmail, or use Sendy, Pressat, Journolink, etc.

You may think that with all this ammunition on my website, creating a world technocracy would be a walk over. Unfortunately I have learned that it's far from the case. I have attempted to increase my website readership from zero, through email marketing, by sending a press release to newspapers, NGOs and MPs, but my readership has not increased. The trouble is that all these organisations receive thousands of emails per day, whilst MPs are told not to read anything that does not originate from their constituents. I regard constitutional reform to be a matter for everyone. With 1.9 billion websites in existence, and millions of emails sent each day, one wonders how on Earth a business can be energized into being when their advertising is being ignored. As for democracy and free speech the message simply isn't getting across to create an informed electorate. It's now easy to see why Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube, Skype, Amazon, Google, PayPal, etc. have so little competition. They were the first, with no competition and no data jamb. For later startups the advertising costs must be horrendous. So the rich companies get richer, whilst the start-ups get bought up. This also has implications for free speech, democracy and corruption. Without a clear informed choice in government and financial affairs, there is simply no way of penalizing corrupt or incompetent organisations, be they banks, insurance companies or political parties for instance. Whether by chance or design, democracies are becoming subtle dictatorships, where free thought and verbal comment is stifled by regulations and IT limitations, preventing the dissemination of ideas.

It is clear that this problem needs to be resolved urgently. US Senators currently want to break up organisations like Facebook. However, the problem is not confined to just a few multi-nationals, but all of them. They all need to be broken up along national lines, with each nation having its own intranet, social website, etc. Since nations cannot agree to an international force to police the internet using AI, because they're all spying on one another, I can see no other solution. I can see no point in maintaining a super efficient world that denies people job satisfaction and a status in life, not to mention purchasing power. A world technocracy would put people before profit.

Whilst email marketing maybe a total failure due to data overload, it maybe possible to attract attention to your website by using more intimate means. I am of course referring to the use of handles on social websites, namely Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You first need to open accounts in all three. The name for your handle needs to be unique in all three accounts. Your handle will consist of not more than fifteen lower case letters with no special characters and no gaps. It will start with a hashtag # symbol that identifies a person, incident, place or organisation. If it already exists, you are not allowed to buy it, whilst taking any further action is likely to get you nowhere. The message must be accompanied by a picture, to make it look eye catching and improve the appearance of the app. If you want to include friend's names who are following you on social media, then include their name after a handle @ symbol. The @handle actually refers to a file name, where that person can see all files recommended to them. The incident can also be filed away under more than one filename. That way when doing a search for this incident, the search result list will be far shorter using two criteria than just one. Hashtags must not contain punctuation nor gaps. They must be used regularly otherwise they can be withdrawn after six months of inactivity. Recently I saw a message from Elon Musk on Microsoft News. It went something like this:
#elonmusk Whilst camera resolution has improved over the years, all pictures of UFOs have remained fuzzy. I therefore do not believe that UFOs exist.
There is a limit of 280 characters. Hashtags are used on Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter. The #elonmusk tells you who put it out on msn. A reply to this message would go something like this:
.#elonmusk are you clever:
1...Your child's name, which I cannot pronounce, amounts to child cruelty.
2...Landing a tall spaceship on the Moon, without a landing pad is irresponsible.
3...Your claims make Tesla over valued by 300%. Look at https://www.aptera.us and cry.
4...Old paintings and accounts by Ezekiel indicate UFOs exist.(#nigelallen)
5...And as for purchasing your cars with bitcoins. Cryptocurrencies have no central bank, are not linked to an economy, they go missing irrevocably, dealers kidnapped, and are no better than gaming chips on a roulette table where the odds are unknown. They are stolen by North Korea to finance its missile and nuclear weapons development. They are not currency, only a pyramid selling scheme. Governments should know better than ignore the problem. In April 2022 Elon Musk bought a substantial share holding in Twitter. Is he trying to shut me down? I don't see the point in having the account anyway. @NigeStuartAllen

The dot in front of .#elonmusk means that this reply to a statement from Elon Musk, and will go public. Will he sue for slander? Well who cares when all publicity is good publicity, and right now I'm getting none. Incidentally, this message was reduced from many more characters. Still plainly too long. Unfortunately, having a 280 limit often ensures that precis messages lack finesse, and often intelligence. Unfortunately, at the time of writing this March 2021, I haven't a clue how social network accounts work. The more I read, the more confused I get, probably because I don't know what help files are up to date and complete. This is why help files should not be separate from the app. The help file should be accessed by clicking on a red dot in the relevant dialogue box, as in MS excel cells, and include graphics and videos. As for the size of the above reply, it would be necessary to break it down into at least three to five parts. The tweets would be filed away by Twitter in the @NigeStuartAllen folder. With at least 8,000 emails being sent out per second, and 80% of news being handled by journalists via Twiter, it looks as if I have no choice but to become a fluent user.

Learning how to use a social media account correctly is not easy. You read the help files and then read the help related to those help files. It does not help when terms used are ambiguous, or different from one app to another. After changing your Twitter name to something that you and your readers can remember, and noting the difference between a hashtag and a handle, your next task is to find out who you can communicate with. Competitors, suppliers, journalists, etc.

If you are dissatisfied with the way Google lists your website on browser's results page (and what webmaster isn't?), then you can design your own from the next two hyperlinks. You can get it looking like Wikipedia. If you are developing an ecommerce website or database of people, then you will need an EU privacy notice. This can be downloaded and modified to your needs from the third hyperlink.

In Microsoft Edge, to determine how many cookies are on your website: Right click home page>Inspect>from Developer Console>Applications>Cookies. In June 2021 my website listed Twitter and Facebook, although at the time my Facebook link didn't work. However, when I used cookieserve.com it failed to find any cookies. My website may later include cookies for forum and donation, whilst an ecommerce website would no doubt include banner advertising, trolley and debit card concessions.

There comes a time when you need to pass on your cherished website to someone equally as enthusiastic and dependable as yourself. Whilst Facebook has a policy on the subject, web hosts do not. The web host Ionos charges monthly. It's not possible to pay years in advance, and when your current account is closed down, so is your website. It's therefore necessary to leave your website in your will to someone, or preferably arrange it prior to death. Your web host will enable you to change the personal details section of your account, which must include new bank account details in addition to new name and address. The website could be maintained through finance via a donation button on your website. In most cases all the new recipients (inheritors) have to do is keep the HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc. up to date, and no doubt finance the marketing as long as the money and enthusiasm last. But that is not necessarily the end. There exist organisations that trawl the internet, saving websites for posterity, conserving our digital history, such as The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, or national libraries like the British Library. Whilst there are sixty trillion pages on the 1.9 billion websites that currently exist on the internet, and only a few million have been saved, there is always the chance that if your data has been saved, probably on an incorruptible solid state glass disc, it will be read by some advanced creature millions of years from now. So please treat the internet with the respect it deserves, for it may well be the only thing that our species leaves behind.

Needless to say I cannot finish this chapter without mentioning another IT screw-up by HMG. In late January 2021 it was revealed that numerous laptop computers handed to schools by the government, in its laptops for disadvantaged pupils programme, were infected with a worm called gamarue.I, which was first detected by Microsoft in 2012. This worm was found to have links to Russian servers. So how did these new Geobooks 1E laptops with 4GB RAM, 64GB ROM, INTEL QUAD CPU, 11.6" screen and Windows 10 end up infected, and how many more are out there to infect school and home IT systems? And just whose arse is HMG gonna kick? Like many other countries out there, the UK is an IT disaster. There is no way that it can compete successfully in the global economy without a technocracy, including AI. It's time MPs voted for a new, better constitution, namely a technocracy.

In mid April the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) in the United States announced that they had conducted a 'white hat' hack of computer servers, removing malicious software planted there by Chinese hackers called HAFNIUM. How long would it be before the WWW consortium is able to update websites and police the internet remotely?

On April 23rd, 2021 probably the longest serving and most serious miscarriage of justice came to light when 39 sub-postmasters from across the UK were exonerated. They had been accused of fraud and false accounting. Some had gone to prison. Three were no longer alive, one having committed suicide. The cases had lasted at least 16 years. Many had worked for Royal Mail for decades, and had their livelihoods, reputations and savings trashed. Subjected to divorce and bankruptcy, they had been put on trial, where neither the court officials, prosecution nor defence council and their expert witnesses, knew what had really happened. It turned out that about 400 employees of Royal Mail had been subjected to what can only be described as a malicious prosecution. The cause of all this was a suspect software application called Horizon, used from 1999, which was flawed. Prior to this the post office had developed an epos software program called Capture. The Horizon enquiry will include the circumstances in the Capture fiasco. Horizon plainly hadn't been tested thoroughly enough prior to use in thousands of sub-post offices across the UK. It showed up shortfalls of thousands of pounds, causing senior management to point the accusing finger at sub-postmasters, rather than carry out forensic accounting. Those who had been exonerated were now calling for their accusers to receive the kind of instant justice that they had received. Who are they, company directors, IT managers, police, director of public prosecutions? Crime statistics are compiled and analyzed by the state. Someone in HMG must have known what was going on, and if not, why not. They had perverted the course of justice, and probably committed perjury. This case clearly shows how ineptly managed our IT policy is in the UK. For too long technologies have been imported with scant regard for the need to train people to a very high standard to develop, maintain and above all train others in this technology. The one that committed suicide was sub-postmaster Martin Griffiths from Ellesmere Port, who had worked twenty years for the Royal Mail. I mention him because I can well understand how he must have felt, accused and alone. My stepfather was a postmaster at Rushden, Northamptonshire. He served his apprenticeship with the Royal Mail before serving in the army during WWII. He was forced to retire from Royal Mail at the age of sixty, and remained bitter about it until his dying day, because shortly after, the retirement age in the company was raised to 65.

On December 13th, 2021 HMG announced that being the sole shareholder of the Post Office, it would pay the compensation costs in the above cases, that amounted to the false conviction of sub-postmasters for embezzlement. There was no mention of any further police investigations into the matter until January 2024. About 2,400 people are expected to receive compensation, amounting to a total of from £600 million to £1 billion. The fight for all legal fees in the matter to be awarded, continues. A public enquiry will take place in 2022 to find out what went wrong. Well, it's obvious what went wrong. We don't have a technocracy. Just how many MPs, solicitors and judges have a qualification in information technology?

In order to prove to the court that the Horizon software was not to blame, the court, not the accused or accuser, should first get the Department for Information Technology (DIT) to test the software. This plainly did not happen because HMG has no DIT. To test this software would be beyond the accused's finances, whilst a test financed by the employer would probably be biased, to say the least. Then of course, how do you test it. A lay person may think that Fujitsu programmers or their managers were lax, but computer work is be no means an exact science. At the beginning of this HTML/PPE chapter are two small tables. They are created with the TABLE command. The text for the table is typed into a file with a HTML (HyperText Markup Language) suffix. How the graphics (frame size, colour, position on screen, etc.) appears is decided by a small software algorithm in another file which has a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) suffix. Programming is a very tedious operation. When confronted with a problem I get worked up in seconds, whilst in minutes my brain is worn out. There is therefore a tendency to cut corners by using copy and paste where the same software routine is needed to be used at several places in a program. This is bad practice as the routine can be corrupted in the process. Invariably it will not work even though it looks exactly the same as the original on the VDU. Where is the fault, in the HTML file or the CSS file? You can type the routine again, word for word, and it still won't work. The only way to get it to work is to reenter the CSS code, using command selection from a whole series of drop down menus. It's laborious, which is why I cheat, and often get caught out. The Horizon fiasco clearly shows that such systems will never operate perfectly until androids take over. But they won't be tapping a touch sensitive screen. The object recognition software will transmit the data via intranet cable. The software will be written by AI, whilst all the directors will be androids or simply black boxes of AI. If you want it done right, get AI to do it. Will it really be better?

That is just one way a software fault can occur. Other problems can lie with faults in the programming app being used, incompatibility between apps, and of course hardware faults such as bad sectors in the HDD (Hard Disc Drive), or CPU (Central Processing Unit). Other faults maybe caused by sunspot activity, although I haven't come across any articles on the subject. Software apps are updated all the time. Microsoft for Windows calls them KBs (Knowledge Based). They can be security updates against a new virus, an enhanced graphics routine, or a potentially catastrophic blunder patch. Don't expect the company to tell you about the latter unless they have to. According to newspaper articles, problems with the Post Office Horizon continue into 2024, which makes me wonder just what do the banks and building societies do to overcome these problems. As far as I can tell, the only way is to have two data centres handling the same data, but using different operatives, different hardware and different software, then having each anomaly investigated. The NASA space shuttle had five computers electing what to do next, by democratic vote, and they still lost two due to hardware problems.

I have a HP Pavilion dv7 4143ea 17" laptop which for about 5 years would display black in images, as a blue area with black vertical lines. I complained to Microsoft about five times but couldn't get anyone in the help department to fix it. I replaced the cable from the PCB to the screen but that didn't solve the problem. It finally resolved itself in mid 2023, and will hopefully not come back. Another problem I have is with my other laptop, a Lenonvo G700. Each day I go through the Windows update routine. I switch it on, only to be told that the laptop has already updated itself, even though it's still not connected to the internet. When I do switch on the internet hub and Windows Update, it will eventually find a KB, but it won't download it until I disconnect from the internet, then reconnect. I have no idea how many other makes of computer are affected. I complained once to Microsoft, but no improvement has been forthcoming. Does it happen to their personal computers?

To cut a long story short, the people brought to trial by the Post Office and others, should not have been tried, because the Department of Justice did not have the necessary facilities to ensure a fair trial. Whilst Fujitsu may have been motivated by its reputation affecting company profit, and the Post Office simply turning the screw as usual, thinking that computer software was infallible, the blame really lies with HMG and its British establishment mentality, which is totally out of sync with the modern world, and will probably stay that way until we get a technocracy. As I understand it, security features for Horizon were added too late, or not at all, whilst the Capture EPOS (Electronic Point Of Sale) package was also lacking. Employees of Fujitsu had direct access to the system, with no record kept of their actions. Faults as easy to detect as 'pressing the return key twice would double the amount received', were not corrected in the design stage.

As a result of a BBC investigation, it was determined that the Post Office senior management covered up the bad results of a forensic examination of the Horizon system, by sacking the investigative company involved, in April 2014. Called Project Sparrow, it had HMG approval. Well that's as good as a confession, isn't it? They don't have a leg to stand on. Well, just don't expect justice. The British establishment doesn't like its authority challenged. There will no doubt be a long investigation lasting decades, with almost no compensation and court trials carried out in the meantime. Victims will die from natural causes without seeing justice, whilst at the next general election the dumb dumb electorate will vote for the same political parties, that over the decades have perpetuated this system, rather than vote for independent technocrats. A vote for change that all of them, including the establishment, are fearful of. It's a system that perpetuates incompetence, crime, wars, ill health, poor housing, a meaningless lifestyle and above all, apathy.

So what would it take to make Horizon and all other EPOS apps one hundred per cent secure? There's a phrase in computing which says, 'garbage in, garbage out'. So in order to make sure the teller enters the right data, you stop him from putting it in in the first place. All items coming in or going out should be scanned. The IT equipment should have a scanner for this, with the necessary AI which can identify the item and select the right function, such as stamps or pensions, etc. The quantity should then be typed in. The teller would have to highlight the value on the GUI, which the AI would then read and speak to him. The display would show the value and a graphic of the item being traded. The customer would also have a display to read, for an independent check. Cash would be scanned going out and coming in. All transactions would be recorded by CCTV. Above all one has to select the staff with a critical eye. They must be examined for intelligence, loyalty, speed and accuracy. Above all they should receive regular breaks from this highly stressful task, which requires high concentration. I well remember being in the Dueling Pianos bar one night, when I was given change for a £50 pound note, when I had handed over only ten pounds. Needless to say I pointed out the mistake to the barman, leaving everyone around me in total amazement. And then of course there was the case of the absent minded sub-postmaster in Gwalchmai, Anglesey, where I once lived. My wife Karen and I entered the shop. There was no one around, but there was some money on the sweets display. When the sub-postmaster finally turned up, I said,"is it Christmas?" His eyes eventually focused in on the two rolls of banknotes, which he quickly took to the post office section. Had my wife noticed the two thousand pounds, I'm certain she would have helped herself, to the sweets that is. The success of an organisation often depends on who you employ and pure chance. The Post Office recruits an existing shop to provide post office services. That sub-post office comes with the owner, who may have no higher education at all, not even a GCSE in maths. Crazy, isn't it? Just how do banks keep their computer systems accurate? Do they use a huge petty cash account?

I see software problems all the time. The main problem is outdated solutions on the internet, incomplete or inaccurate software manuals and incomplete programming software. As for the latter, I remember having double vertical scroll bars whilst editing this website. After much time consuming searching I came up with a software solution. About one year later I realised that this problem had gone away, so the solution was no longer needed. It appears that the programming software was at fault. Today, that software does not display the full width of the web page when I call it up. I have to widen the app 1mm before the vertical scroll bar appears. This hardly gives you confidence in what you are doing, does it? IT programs are currently not perfect, but with the introduction of AI checkers, it should be less faulty and more secure in future.

So what are the qualifications necessary to be a sub-postmaster? You must not have a criminal record, and have not been declared bankrupt. You also need a licence from the Post Office. I could find no details of exams, but training on the Horizon system is provided. So what does Microsoft do, to maintain confidence in Windows operating system. I asked Bing AI, 'are Microsoft Windows KBs released on a regular date?

Certainly! Microsoft follows a structured release cycle for Windows updates. Let me break it down for you:

Monthly Security Update Release: These cumulative updates include both security and non-security content. They are typically published on the second Tuesday of each month, around 10:00 AM Pacific Time (PST/PDT). That's 6pm in UK. You might hear them referred to as: Patch Tuesday, Update Tuesday, B week releases (meaning the second week of the month), Quality updates, Security updates.

Latest cumulative update (LCU). These updates are crucial for keeping Windows devices secure and compliant. They are available through channels like: Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Microsoft Update Catalog. Various update management tools such as Microsoft Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune rely on these channels for deployment 1.

Optional Non-Security Preview Release: This optional cumulative update is typically used for early validation of the monthly security update. It is released on the fourth Tuesday of each month, also around 10:00 AM Pacific Time (PST/PDT)1. That's 6pm in UK

Out-of-Band (OOB) Release: These address recently identified issues or vulnerabilities and are released as needed.

Annual Feature Update: These updates introduce new features and enhancements, effectively changing the Windows version. They occur once a year in the second half of the calendar year.

Continuous Innovation for Windows 11: Windows 11 receives periodic updates with new features and enhancements. These are initially included in optional non-security preview releases and later in the monthly security update releases 1.

In summary, Microsoft maintains a well-defined schedule for Windows updates, ensuring security, stability, and consistent user experiences. 🚀🔍

Learn more 1...learn.microsoft.com 2...techcommunity.microsoft.com

The Horizon affair will be treated like other British scandals. Like 164 doctored police reports over the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster, which saw 97 fans crushed to death; the 3,000+ dead from the hepatitis tainted blood scandal of the 1970's and 80's, caused by imported blood from US Skid Row; the 1988 Piper Alpha oil rig disaster which killed 167 workers; whilst the decades long NHS genocide of potentially long term patients continues to the present day, which HMG won't even declare a crime. However HMG is prepared to jail, before the 2024 general election, an estimated 70,000 people who have exceeded their welfare benefit entitlement, not to mention of course the thousands who haven't paid for their TV licence because they're sick and tired of being presented with one repeat programme after another, after one year of extravagant HMG hand-outs to cover higher energy costs. Just where does HMG intend to put these mainly Labour party voters, in Rwanda, because it's plainly obvious that we don't have the prison space in the UK? There is no real justice in the UK. If you want justice, then you have to turn up at the police station with the murder weapon, and confess.

An IT system isn't all software. On March 12th 2021 my Electrolux integrated fridge freezer failed to work. Initially I looked around for a replacement on the internet but could not find one. On March 15th I bought the wrong sized fridge freezer from AO.com. I requested my money back the next day, which I later received. I eventually went to the Electrolux website on March 16th, and since it was not an ecommerce website I had to phone them. My first phone call did not get through after fifteen minutes, possibly due to staff shortages owing to Covid-19. The second call lasted a total of half an hour during which I gave them the fridge freezer details, plus three attempts to key in my debit card details. I was not told whether they had the parts for a repair, and neither was I told how long it would take. I assume the maintenance work was contracted out to 0800 Repair, since these were the people I dealt with. Three times I was visited by different Pacifica Group/0800 Repair Electrolux/Zanussi maintenance technicians. The first, on April 1st, simply noted the product details that I had already given over the phone, whilst the second, on April 16th, did the same and noted clicking which he mentioned to his boss over the phone. I told him that the fridge had failed first then the freezer about one week later, and that I could smell gas in the fridge. The third technician arrived on April 26th, measured the gas pressure, which was zero, phoned his boss, then packed up his gear and left after telling me it was beyond repair, and that he would send a report. The repair was a fixed price and cost me 140 pounds plus ten pounds in phone calls. At this time I could only find one new integrated 60/40 model on the internet, a Bosch on Currys, which cost 829 pounds including removal of old appliance. This was too expensive, so I thought about getting a freestanding one. The trouble was that because of Covid-19 restrictions it would be left in the front garden, whilst I would have to put my old one there also, which was impossible on my own due to the small porch floor being so much lower. It seems crazy that maintenance personnel can enter my home but not delivery people. I had no idea what to do, made worse by the fact that I suffer from arthritis in my right knee. It looked like I would be living out of tins for a long time. By now my meals reminded me of those in my youth. Spam, spam and more SPAM! The tin cans piled up in the waste bin. For once in my life I was praying for cold weather as I kept the milk, bread, spread and meat on the dustbin, hopefully away from the fox, outside the back door. Each time the repair failed to materialize I had to cancel my grocery delivery due the next day with Tesco. I was really pissed off. The internet is full of advertisements for fridge freezers which then state that they are not available possibly due to Covid-19 pandemic or caused by the Ever Given container ship stuck in the Suez Canal at this time. Even on MSN I noticed a fridge-freezer advertised in three places that according to the retailer Currys, was not available, or elsewhere its not the right dimensions or door ratio. Other integrated units are incorrectly listed under freestanding or vice versa. Clearly websites are not being maintained to a professional standard. The maintenance saga dragged on for more than one month.

Incidentally my Electrolux fridge freezer was being fixed by Zanussi, or so I thought, leaving me totally confused as to which website I should be looking at. I never received a verbal nor detailed written explanation of what was going on from Electrolux. Why much of this could not be handled by an ecommerce website I simply failed to understand, but I got the strong impression that HMG's policy of moving manufacturing abroad was backfiring. Creating a nation of warehouses was clearly dulling the brain, and leaving our civilisation vulnerable to imports from countries we do not get on well with. After hearing that my fridge freezer could not be fixed, I waited for the report. No one was communicating with me. I simply didn't know what was going on. I never received a status report. One email from Pacifica told me to phone a number, without telling me who or why. It turned out to be Domestic & General Insurance. During the first phone call I was told to phone another number. During the second phone call someone told me to hang on, only to be presented with an automatic answering system offering three numbers to choose. I got nowhere. It was obvious that no one wanted to speak to me. Was this a con? The next day whilst surfing the internet I noticed a Hoover fridge freezer for sale at 459 pounds plus twenty pounds to recycle my old one. I placed the order and then unplugged and unscrewed my old fridge freezer from its cabinet and dragged it along the hall to the porch. After gently lifting it over two PVC door jambs, I finally walked it into the front garden, like an Easter Island moai, on my own and all in twenty-five minutes. I had asked for the new one to be delivered to my kitchen, but the small print I read later in an email, stated that it would be dumped at the front door and no further. Fortunately I got two very nice anonymous men to deliver it to my kitchen. The unit was delivered in less than two days on April 29th. There I unpacked it only to discover a large dent in the top back rear edge, which I photoed and sent to Marks Electrical. I later suggested a fifty pound refund, which they agreed. It took me three hours to insert into the kitchen cabinet and assemble without a scratch, making sure there was suction on both doors when opened. I was left with a black open ended spanner in the parts kit bag, which appeared to have no use. At least I hope it has no use. There was also a strange smell in the kitchen, which I hoped was not caused by a gas leak. I later concluded that it was either a cleanser on the surface of the fridge, or fumes from the cardboard box.

Looks like I've lost my 75 pound refund. As for compensation I came across the VISA Chargeback system, but could find no application form, neither on the VISA nor my bank's website. In addition, it turned out that my new fridge freezer was insured with the same company that insured my repair. I had had no say in the matter, no choice. I got the feeling that it was a monopoly or cartel. Well that's capitalism. The reason I mention this in the IT chapter is that HMG is currently passing legislation designed to ensure that consumer products can be repaired. However, to do that you need an inbuilt diagnostic processor to tell the owner exactly what is wrong with the product, whether it can be repaired economically and which competent company to contact for the repair to be carried out. In this case I got the strong impression that Electrolux had failed me. So what hope is there of things improving through the introduction of this legislation? I have experienced repair problems twice in seven years with my gas combi boiler. Each repair with Baxi has cost me 310 pounds. I get no emails, no letters, no report, no receipt. This is not professional. What hope is there of HMG controlling AI, when it can't even police the financial sector, the untouchables? To overcome all of these problems HMG should operate a department where all repair requests are handled. Products would have to last a minimum of 20 years, and include necessary security and compatibility updates for software. Failure to repair the item swiftly would result in the manufacturer being fined. A scale of fines would exist. There would also be a strict code for the service sector, which would be monitored 24/7 by AI, and backed up with heavy fines.

A few days later on May 6th I received the following email from Electrolux: 'Good Afternoon Nigel, We have tried to call you today concerning your Fixed Price Repair. We have been informed that the appliance cannot be repaired therefore we would like to offer a replacement appliance with £75 deducted. Please contact us by responding to this email or calling 03445 619871, alternatively we will close the ticket if we do not hear from you within the next 7 days.' This entire process had taken at least five weeks. I think I'm realistic in stating that this repair/replacement should have been completed within five days. I cannot see a housewife waiting longer. In my opinion the entire procedure is unacceptable. This is happening in homes across the nation, including those of politicians who plainly don't appear to give a damn. Why should manufacturers be allowed to insure their products anyway, as this introduces no incentive for them to design the product right in the first place, and why should a simple repair be insured. It makes no sense. It simply makes the entire procedure unnecessarily long, frustrating and likely to end with the customer abandoning their warranties and guarantees. Is that what is supposed to happen. Is this a con? This bureaucracy is what IT is supposed to remove. It's therefore about time HMG imposed reform upon all businesses. Whilst HMG wants domestic appliances to be repairable, I cannot recommend users go along with this plan if the government is not prepared to reform the procedure that I have just gone through. As I write this my arthritic right knee still hurts very much from this affair. Remember, an IT system is only as good and honest as its management. Eventually, if this mentality is allowed to permeate artificial intelligence, it will run rings around government regulations, laws and enforcement agencies. AI could bring about the collapse of civilisation, simply by exacerbating the human greed mentality.

There are over twenty HMG run complaints departments in the UK. The general consensus is that they have a huge backlog of work, with many cases taking over one year to resolve, if completed at all. One gets the impression that these organisations simply exist to employ young people, with degrees in law and economics, who are the sons and daughters of members of the British establishment. Will someone investigate this matter? And more importantly, why doesn't HMG give Visa and Barclaycard, etcetera, the power to sort out these rip off companies, that plainly cannot function without their services?

No sooner was the fridge freezer nightmare fading from my memory than the Ransomware Task Force composed of Microsoft, Citrix, Mcafee, and the Global Cyber Alliance, Amazon, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), the UKNCA (UK National Crime Agency) and other likeminded organisations, was pleading for governments to act aggressively and urgently to implement almost fifty recommendations that would hopefully put a stop to their nightmare. Companies, hospitals and schools were being locked out of their computer data, the requested funds, which would provide them with access. Alternatively, data was being stolen, and then put into the public domain if an extortion fee was not paid. No sooner had this plea been announced than the east coast oil pipeline in the United States was hit by malware. Carrying 45% of the demand for petrol, diesel and kerosene, amounting to 2.5 million barrels per day, the cyber attack was definitely rattling bones in Washington D.C. So what are the world's governments going to do about all this? My money is on dither, because the ransomeware hackers had picked the wrong time of the year to do it, hadn't they?. I suppose it'll all be blamed upon the Russians.

If you have ever looked at the home page of 'ornamento.com' you will see a neat software routine with images. I tried to emulate this and came up with several problems. First of all, what is it called? Unless you know that you can't get Google search engine to look it up. After months of searching I finally found it, but was what I was reading up to date. Needless to say it wasn't. I was in the world of geeks and the www, where nobody appeared to give a damn about keeping technical websites up to date. Finally I found a solution on the w3docs website, but it didn't say how to install it on my website. I finally came across a reference to iFrame, which as the name suggests put a frame around my images. I wanted the three images to cover the entire screen without a frame. This led me to EMBED. And then I somehow came across the OBJECT tag which was also listed at the start of my reference book but I hadn't noticed it. I tried to mix some of these programs without success. I spent about two weeks on this software routine and finally had to admit defeat. This clearly shows the need for job training as opposed to academic courses. When will HMG wake up to the challenge? This routine is called parallax and although I could get it to work in my website editor, Rapid PHP 2020, I couldn't get it to work in my website. I eventually concluded that it had to be inserted at the beginning of the home page, or possibly any start page. Thus far I haven't tried it out.

After one year on the www my website was getting no visitors. Something clearly was amiss. The search engines were ignoring my website due to no visitors. Email marketing and website ads clearly don't work for a website like mine. To get 100,000 regular readers would cost me probably £1 million. Money which I didn't have. The only thing I could do is to make those Google result pages look more attractive. To do that requires me to delve into the world of structured data, SERP, SCHEMA and Yoast SEO. I did produce a Google results page but the company only displays it if you or your business is important, or presumably spend loads of money advertising through Google. That left Twitter, which reputably had the membership or audience I was after. I was unable to get the Twitter advertising app to work for me, so after several attempts I gave up. Late Elon Musk bought Twitter. He should have come to me first for advice. It's a time waster. This next section is on SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), configuring the SERP (Search Engine Results Page) and the Google KP (Knowledge Panel). Both of these on the page that appears after you have typed a query into the search window on your browser. The KP is the data inside the rectangle on the right had side of the SERP. The SERP is created by AI, so it isn't perfect. Setting all this up to the way you want it involves a number of steps, which can ultimately be ignored by Google. It can be most discouraging.

The easiest step in SEO is to make the title in the head of each file that makes up your website as descriptive as possible. Remember to keep the file description and the file content limited to 180 to 220 characters. Filenames are limited to 255 characters, however to make them easy to read and edit, limit them to 70 characters. Keep filenames in the same folder to the same format. For instance, all my minor files on the index page start with "index"". File description and content must be different for each file, otherwise they are considered copies. Canonical values must also be inserted. There must be no repetition of the file title. It only indexes html and php files. Screw up on any of this and Google will not index your file. Files that are not indexed will not be considered by Google Chrome, and will therefore not appear in the SERP Search Engine Results Page. Getting approval from Microsoft Bing is much easier. In which case you may be better off advertising your website through Microsoft. The music lists are there to attract readers to the ideas section, so I had to make the ideas, story and learn sections prominent. The AI looks for unique or key words, such as header, index, prologue, article, etc. Through trial and error, you will succeed, hopefully. The words need to be specific: e.g. Music Immortals list Afro Pop, and not African music.

There should also be thumbnail images. I made mine 800x800 with rounded corners, which is what Twitter wanted. These have to be detected by the website crawler bots, so you need to enter commands into the head of each file as follows:

link rel="image_src" href="https://www.world-technocracy-now.earth/Knowledge Panel/KP WTN_Icon_edited.png">

meta property="og:image" content="https://www.world-technocracy-now.earth/Knowledge Panel/KP WTN_Icon_edited.png">

meta name="thumbnail" content="http://www.world-technocracy-now.earth/Knowledge Panel/KP WTN_Icon_edited.png">

title>Index: Problems facing the human race and their solutions
meta name="description" content="It's about time HMG treated IT as a public utility. As things stand at the moment (circa 2015) I feel that customers are being conned. ">

Insert your own web address (domain name), folder and image filename, and don't forget to insert Left Single Angle Quotation Mark at the start of each line. This amounts to 3 attempts to attract Google's attention, firstly through image source, secondly by open graph protocol which is used on social media, and finally an image the size of a thumbnail. Note the descriptive title, all located in the head of each file you want to appear on SERP. Files will show images that relate to their contents.

This brings us to the subject of favicons, which are the thumbnail images that appear on your browsers favourite website row, which you create whilst browsing. The favicons program should be obtained from your web host. The program starts: and consists of 29 lines of program that are inserted in the head of your home page, probably called "index". I have had to add a few lines to it, in order to be compatible with Microsoft Edge. Otherwise Microsoft creates its own thumbnail. My web host also provides a tool for the creation of the thumbnail image.

Examples of internet based advertising are shown here. Unless you are advertising a high value product or service, then advertising on the internet is a waste of money, in my opinion. You can try employing your videos on YouTube, or stick to using Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) by including key words on your website, and including your website domain name in internet based directories. Television based advertising is probably the most effective however, if you can afford it and can justify it, but as with computer users clicking on ads simply to get them off their screen, you are still faced with viewers going out to the toilet or making a cup of tea, or scanning other channels whenever the ads appear. Of course I could create a publicity stunt, but just how many people do you have to offend before you end up in the news? Of course all publicity is good publicity provided you don't end up in prison for an eternity, or become poverty stricken. Unfortunately, with so much competition, the best products don't necessarily sell themselves. I'm looking for a sponsor. Now what billionaire wants to see the end of capitalism?

When I look at protesters in Parliament Square standing with their placards behind people being interviewed on TV, I realise that I should have been there advertising my website. Alternatively, I should have been standing at the entrance to the ICC in Birmingham, UK, handing out business cards to people entering the Conservative and CBI (Confederation of British Industry) conferences, but it just didn't occur to me until after the events.

All these problems make me realise that without an accurate, up to date, all embracing and attractive internet directory website, many websites will never achieve anything like their full audience potential. HMG should create such a directory, that lists websites according to subject matter, size of content, quality of IT standards, etc., in order to promote democracy and the economy, since freedom of speech has now been transferred to the internet.

As it is, without a complete range of secure, productive and free software apps, many countries, including the UK, stand no chance of being really successful in the global economy. One is even forced to ask the question whether foreign IT companies really treat foreign users with the same level of care as those in their own country. In January 2023 the US Department of Justice and 8 US states took legal action against Google for undermining competition in the advertising technology sector. I have felt for a long time that Google was up to mischief. To set up SERP and KP required too many steps, to many pages to read, too much jargon and too few examples to study and copy. The DoJ should take the search engine out of Google and hand it over to a non-commercial international body such as UNESCO, that should also create WikiIndex, an index of all websites. as things now stand, my guess is that relevant bodies will do nothing, leading eventually to chaos. This action took place the day after Microsoft announced its interest in taking over Open AI, part of ChatGPT. It's thought that Google and Microsoft are squaring up with the next version of their search engines, which will contain artificial intelligence. Well I'll believe it when my website is up there on SERP glowing and flashing away.

In January 2023, after my website has been on the internet 2.5 years, I'm still trying to get Google to index the pages, without which there is little point in advertising my website, as SERP does not look professional enough for browsers to click on and read. In August 2023 I finally got Google Search Console to approve my website and start indexing it, but that was only after getting Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools to tell me exactly what was wrong with it, so I could then fix it. according to Google 48 pages were indexed whilst 197 were not. Without indexing, these pages would not appear on the SERP if they were relevant.

When it comes to cost effective advertising, which is the best IT browser company to deal with? It's probably Google Chrome with 63% of users, although I use Edge for my research, which you can set up to find exactly what you want to read. Bing AI is good, whilst the whole setup looks good in black. To advertise, Windows Edge is currently (January 2024) offering £200 if you input £200 within 30 days. I didn't. Google Chrome offers £400 for £400 investment.

Not knowing the best way to advertise my website, I asked Microsoft Bing AI Chat. It replied:

There are many ways to advertise a non-commercial website cost-effectively. Here are some of them:

Google Search Ads: These are search ads, one of the most popular forms of PPC. You only pay when a viewer clicks on the ad. These ads appear in Google search results and will help you buy your way to the top of the search for a keyword, without any SEO strategies needed.

Content Marketing: This is one of the most popular methods for reaching the right audience with little to no money out of your pocket. Content marketing is often done through popular authority sites that allow everyone to post on them.

Referral Marketing: Also known as word-of-mouth advertising, is by far one of the most effective and low-cost ways to market your business online or offline.

Online Classified Ads: Any business can get exposure using online classified ads on sites such as Gumtree, and these can be very cheap - or even free. You can place targeted ads for your business online every day, and people will find them via search.

Search Engine Optimization: This is one of the most cost-effective ways to promote your website because while you will need to make adjustments from time to time, this method largely generates traffic without much input once everything’s been optimized.

I hope this helps!

I decided to do a course in social networking instead.

Here are a few advertising suggestions I have come up with, but to attract enough readers to effect a world technocracy, I would probably need at least 100,000 readers per annum, which would cost at least $1 million, which I obviously don't have. Have a good laugh:

The human race is about to be made redundant.

Do you really think that your multi party democracy can handle it?

Artificial Intelligence, androids, rogue quantum computing.

wtn.earth......saving the human race from itself.

Keywords: AI, robot, robotics, quantum_computing, technology, scientific_research, space_research.....You seek us here and there, but we are everywhere.

The problems are building up, Artificial Intelligence, global warming, genetic engineering, increasing cost of living and now global thermonuclear war, with no national service, civil defence, nor the conscription of auxiliary nurses, whilst the NHS is kaput.

It's time to get away from it all, to a new solar system perhaps?

We're watching you. You plainly need a world technocracy, don't you?

wtn.earth......saving the human race from itself.

It's only a matter of time before research labs accidentally flush their genetically engineered lethal bugs down the drain, instead of vaporizing with plasma.

Planet Goo, and hence human extinction, extinction level event are assured.

wtn.earth.....saving the human race from itself.

Born again Putin, makes unexpected appearance at UN HQ, New York, bangs his shoe on lectern, and calls for a World Technocracy Now, plus the replacement of capitalism with SPEVs instead of money......dream on.

It's either that or global thermonuclear war.

wtn.earth......saving the human race from itself.

Your Future --- My Mistakes --- Our Music

The immortals music HITS lists, lists hits.

Not millions of mediocre tracks to wade through.

17 years searching, so that you don't have to.

Your future.....My mistakes.....Our music

wtn.earth.....saving the human race from itself.

It's time to invest in wealth creating projects, that can pay off the national debt:

Tidal barrages, AI controlled air taxis & taxis-vans, overhead monorail, self sustainable living, via 3D printed homes, with geodesic biomes for hydroponic fruit & veg, to reduce food imports and welfare dependency. Space research including DFD for meteorite mining, bio-engineering at safe lab on the Moon, scientific R&D in all fields. A science based civilisation.

Think positive, with vision and determination.

HMG must recruit experts in each field to make it happen.

See the future and make it a reality.

wtn.earth....saving the human race from itself.

It would take an angel to manage our National Health Service correctly.

GPs need to be transferred to hospitals to work in A&E, wards and research.

Nurses need to take biological samples & jabs at peoples' homes and work places, with the entire system supported by conscripted auxiliary nurses, straight out of school.

Patients need access to the NHS internet based AI Doctor, which would provide diagnostic, prescription and appointment facilities with specialists, operations, etc.

wtn.earth.....saving the human race from itself.

We have no national service, no civil defence, no auxiliary nurses in the NHS, and yet we are at war, with possibly no stockpile of GPS guided weapon shells and missiles, and no AI guided suicidal quadcopters either, and certainly no guts to use them.

Apathy, incompetence, and blatant dereliction of duty infest the offices of one hapless government after another in the UK.

wtn.earth.....saving the human race from itself.

Welcome to America, now speak English.

The trouble is that, most already do, that's why they come here.

Immigrants, economic migrants, terrorists, criminals on the run.

Yes, you could send them to Rwanda, Chagos Archipelago or West Falklands, or you could make them earn their British nationality by requiring them to work 60 hours per week for 10 years, with an approved organisation, after doing their 6 month national service.

But all they really want is a decent standard of living in a world that respects the rule of law and freedom of expression and movement. Namely a world technocracy.

They're not as demanding as non-domiciled, are they Rishi Sunak PM?

wtn.earth.....saving the human race from itself.

It's time for a petition to Parliament.

It's time for you to make a stand, and stick your neck out.

Enough is enough. Minimum 100,000 signatures required.

Change is inevitable and long overdue.

Nanny State...your moment has arrived.

wtn.earth.....saving the human race from itself.

It's moment is sooner than you think, and you've never heard of it, have you?

More deadly and frequent than AI, aliens, WWIII, or a super volcanic eruption.

A Miyake event is your worst nightmare, and there are no disaster movies to instruct you.

No government has prepared for it, and its long overdue.

wtn.earth.....saving the human race from itself.

Whilst advertising your website is vital, it's almost pointless if your web pages are not indexed by Google and Microsoft. In February 2024 I decided to spend £209 in advertising my website through Microsoft Ads, at the rate of ten pounds per day. The Microsoft Ads website was far from intuitive. It appeared to be deliberately complex. According to the app, after spending £71-62 I had 1196 clicks on my web pages out of 151,876 impressions (appearances on SERP). But a separate app called Microsoft Console, which I had used for years to get my web pages indexed, stated that nothing had clicked onto my website. A similar app from Google stated the same. So what had been going on. Had I set up the Microsoft Ads app properly? I noticed that my websites logo was missing from the favourites line up, and I was unable to create a new one four times. I went to the SERP for my website. My website was listed twice. I went to the second listing and clicked on it. The hyperlink should have taken me to the forum page, but instead took me to an Ionos page, indicating a link that goes nowhere. I checked the page directly through the browser and on my PHP app, and found there was nothing wrong. I had not worked on the forum page for months, and somehow the bots had failed to update it. Even so, I had not directed my ads to this page. So what had gone wrong. Recently I had noticed a website with a similar domain name, and I had had soft porn sent to my account on Facebook. Was someone trying to sabotage my ideology? I switched off the advertising campaign. I later clicked the Feedback button at the foot of the SERP and informed Bing about the poor links to Forum, Q&A, and Spread the word, giving them the main links found on my website's home page. I also modified the titles on those pages (TITLE is in the head of each file /TITLE), making them more informative when displayed on SERP. After that I created a new 'sitemap.xml' on the sitemap.xml website, copied it to download, transferred it to my website folder and then copied it to the server via FileZilla. Then I told Google and Microsoft to trawl my website using the new sitemap, in the hope that they would update my website's info displayed on SERP. Simple isn't it? During the building and updating of your website, you must create a new sitemap, and get Google and Microsoft (Bing) to review it, so that the websites description on SERP remains up to date. Websites are crawled automatically by bots, but it doesn't always find the modifications. No sooner had I done all of this than I noticed that Bing's description of SPEV was xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx, whilst CoPilot said that it was something yet to be revealed. It's mentioned eight times in Ideas> Chapter 37.

To determine whether your web site is being trawled correctly by Google, go to: