INDEX August 2, 2025
Selling protection: like Al Capone!
I have created two versions of a video about Millom. One, the newer, is mainly about the ironworks and the various iron mines the town once had. The older included a lot of stuff about the town as it is today.

Although the older one was really a flawed piece of work I constructed a web site to promote it. I got the web site for a bargain basement price but as is the way with these things the price shot up when it came to be automatically renewed.

Automatic renewal should be a crime, but I blame the banks and building societies since they could make a subtle change to your card numbers every 12 months and so prevent automatic renewal.

Well they could for people like me, but fat cats could elect to stick with the same numbers. Anyway, the web site I built (millom.online) split the video so you could elect to go to any part of it you were interested in. Selecting the part of the video to link to, is a service Youtube offers.

At first it worked fine but when I went back to it lately, the links had stopped working and I was getting dire warnings about the hazards of using my own website to click onto my own video.

Warnings I can take but no matter what browser I used (Safari, Firefox) I was being blocked from getting to the video.

So I gave up and bought the security setting for my millom.online web site. It's a complete waste of money since I never do any trading and it makes no difference whether the site is secure or not. But it was my last desperate throw. Fasthosts said this was going to cost me £35, which is a lot for me. I stumped up and was charged £42. VAT had been added.

Then when I actually tried to use the site all I got was a blank. I presume there's an engineer hard at work and eventually I will get to see the site. I am on tenterhooks.


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Jonathan Brind
August 2, 2025