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It was ME in the curry house ghost video & not widow’s late husband – I had no idea it created such a mystery
THE mystery surrounding a video that purportedly showed a “ghost diner” chowing down on a curry has been solved.
Alan Harding, 67, says it was him tucking into a chicken korma and not the late husband a widow claimed it was.
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Lucy Watson sent the internet into a frenzy when she alleged an elderly diner in a new ad for a Hampshire curry house was her eight-year-dead Harry.
The Facebook comment under the video from Spice Cottage, in Westbourne, also alleged a man opposite was her stepson Alex.
Alan, a retired IT manager from nearby Emsworth, had no clue about the ghost diner mystery until a pal rang up and said the man looked a bit like him.
He told MailOnline he remembered staff filming the clip on January 13, adding: “[I] of course recognised myself and my friend Kevin Parsons.
“It is all quite funny, but I am definitely very much alive.”
The revelation is the final nail in the coffin of a mystery that gripped fans from as far as the tiny Pacific island of Tahiti.
The video shows the Indian restaurant full of diners who give the waiting staff a round of applause at the end of the clip.
But in her comments, Lucy insisted she “recognised the blue sweatshirt he was wearing and he is sitting there with his son Alex”.
The 59-year-old’s late husband Harry Doherty – an award winning journalist – last visited the curry house on New Year’s Eve in 2013, before he passed away in April 2014 aged 61.
Lucy’s comments sparked a row with the restaurant, with owner Azizur Rahman later telling The Sun Online the widow was completely wrong.
The spice specialist added: “I don’t know why she thinks she saw her husband in the video, it was taken the other day by me and my cousin.”
Despite her claims being rubbished, the widow still insisted: “It’s definitely some kind of montage – the people at some of the tables change.
“I’m 99.5 per cent sure it’s him and his son Alex. There’s no way you’d get two doppelgangers like that.”
The comments forced Alex, a former British world duathlon champion, to come forward and blast his step-mum’s claims as untrue.
Noting he hasn’t spoken to Lucy in years, Alex added: “It’s not him and it’s not me. Anyone who knew my dad would know that straight away.”
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HBO’s The Last Of Us Has A Cool Idea The Games Could Use
Before the release of HBO’s The Last of Us, a TV adaptation of one of the most acclaimed games of all time, many on the internet were ready to deride the show before having seen an episode–partly because the history of live action video game adaptations has been a mixed bag at best, but mostly because a lot of commenters online enjoy being grade A haters.
Following positive press reactions to the show’s first season, the first two episodes that have aired since have changed a lot of people online’s tunes. There seems to be a general consensus that the show not only faithfully adapts the story of the game, but expands on the world, characters, and plot beats in meaningful ways. In a few short weeks, the conversation around HBO’s The Last of US has gone from, “This is going to be bad,” to, “Is it actually better than the game?”
Opinions like these are subjective, but I saw a post on Twitter that made a good point about comparing the two: You can’t call one better than the other because one is a TV show and the other is a video game. The playable version of The Last of Us has game mechanics that you can interact with and critically weigh when determining if it is good or not, whereas the TV show has the flexibility to jump around in the story and follow the perspectives of numerous different characters. It’s a solid argument to make.
SBF thought it was a good idea to start a Substack
Sam Bankman-Fried is in a world of trouble. He’s facing up to 115 years in prison if he’s convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy charges. And yet the embattled founder of collapsed crypto exchange FTX — who has pleaded not guilty and is out on a $250 million bond while awaiting trial — figured it’d be a great idea to write about his perspective on the saga in a Substack newsletter.
In his first post, which is ostensibly about the collapse of FTX International, Bankman-Fried (aka SBF) claims that “I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away.” SBF notes that FTX US (which serves customers in America) “remains fully solvent and should be able to return all customers’ funds.” He added that FTX International still has billions of dollars in assets and that he is “dedicating nearly all of my personal assets to customers.” SBF, who once had a net worth of approximately $26.5 billion, said at the end of November that he had $100,000 in his bank account, though he pledged to give almost all of his personal shares in Robinhood to customers.
The post covers much of the same ground that SBF has gone over in the myriad interviews he gave between FTX’s collapse in November and his arrest last month. He discusses the multiple crypto market crashes in 2022 and a tweet from Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao that sparked a run on FTX’s FTT token and prompted the implosion of his exchange. SBF also writes about how he was pressured to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for FTX. Meanwhile, he notes that many of the numbers he cites in the post are approximations, since he has been locked out of FTX’s systems by those overseeing its bankruptcy proceedings.
What’s more interesting is what SBF doesn’t address. He does not mention the fact that FTX co-founder Zixiao “Gary” Wang and former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison pleaded guilty to fraud charges and are cooperating with prosecutors.
SBF has continued to give interviews and tweet about the situation while he’s out on bail. That’s despite the complaint filed against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission citing his tweets and comments he made in an interview in early December. Perhaps this whole Substack thing will turn out to be a mistake too.
Amazon Stock: Why is it a good idea to buy the dip in 2023
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) had a weak holiday season this year, thanks to the challenging macroeconomic environment and elevated inflation. For most large-cap tech stocks, including Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) […]
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Microsoft claims it has no idea when Call of Duty came out
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One year ago this month, Microsoft announced it would spend $68.7 billion to acquire Activision Blizzard, highlighting how it would get “iconic franchises” including Call of Duty, Warcraft and Candy Crush for that fee. But now that gamers and regulators are worrying Microsoft might keep Call of Duty from appearing on Sony’s PlayStation, Microsoft’s lawyers are suddenly pretending they have no idea why Call of Duty is special.
Or even when it came out, for that matter.
The FTC claimed Call of Duty is a popular, profitable, and successful video game franchise. Microsoft’s response is that it has no knowledge of Call of Duty revenues and demands all sourcing. Extremely nasty and petty. pic.twitter.com/ISZFv7bs9K
— Matt Stoller…
Analyst Mocks the Idea That It’s ‘The End of Programming’ Again
But IT analyst and ZDNet contributor Joe McKendrick remains skeptical, judging by a new essay sardonically titled “It’s the end of programming as we know it — again.”
Over the past few decades, various movements, paradigms, or technology surges — whatever you want to call them — have roiled the software world, promising either to hand a lot of programming grunt work to end users, or automate more of the process. CASE tools, 4GL, object-oriented programming, service oriented architecture, microservices, cloud services, Platform as a Service, serverless computing, low-code, and no-code all have theoretically taken the onerous burdens out of software development. And, potentially, threaten the job security of developers.
Yet, here we are. Software developers are busier than ever, with demand for skills only increasing.
“I remember when the cloud first started becoming popular and companies were migrating to Office 365, everyone was saying that IT Pros will soon have no job,” says Vlad Catrinescu, author at Pluralsight. “Guess what — we’re still here and busier than ever.”
The question is how developers’ job will ultimately evolve. There is the possibility that artificial intelligence, applied to application development and maintenance, may finally make low-level coding a thing of the past…. Catrinescu believes that the emerging generation of automated or low-code development solutions actually “empowers IT professionals and developers to work on more challenging applications. IT departments can focus on enterprise applications and building complicated apps and automations that will add a lot of value to the enterprise.”
Even the man predicting “the end of programming” in an AI-powered future also envisions new technology that “potentially opens up computing to almost anyone” (in ACM’s video interview). But in ZDNet’s article Jared Ficklin, chief creative technologist and co-founder of argodesign, even predicts the possibility of real-time computing.
“You could imagine asking Alexa to make you an app to help organize your kitchen. AI would recognize the features, pick the correct patterns and in real time, over the air deliver an application to your mobile phone or maybe into your wearable mobile computer.”
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My top passive income idea for 2023
Dividend shares can be an excellent way to earn extra passive income. Our writer looks at the best options for consistent and reliable payments.
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