I’ve just received a sp*m message (fake rolex, anyone?) where the “from:” address was “%RND_FEMALE_FIRST_NAME %RND_LAST_NAME (denxoyxj@%RND_FREEMAIL)”, which made me smile and just goes to show how little point there mostly is to bouncing these.
On that note, if anyone knows of a program that does basically the same thing as mailwasher but lets me blacklist things without insisting on bouncing them, I’d be grateful. Especially if it’s free.
Not only has Kerry conceeded to Bush, but I also have to face the fact that I agree with a headline in The Mirror. How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?
Apparently.
You’re… Hornby Set. You are the indirect descendent of the knit-your-own-organic muesli, Ban the Bomb, bra-burning, fruit tea drinking, hairy-legged, pseudo-cosmic Ice Storming intellectual underachievers who mooned hopelessly through the years 1975-1983. You read The Guardian, and identify with the poor and the excluded. You can’t understand why everyone else doesn’t feel guilty about globalisation. But you’re not exactly staunch.
Which is probably pretty accurate. More here. Quiz here. Via.
Robin, your result is Circle Master!
Cheers! You’re the spirit of the night that is Circle Master – the mysterious and magical potion from Gloucestershire. Harry Potter! Pah! Just some speccy brat with a silly scar. You wouldn’t mind the owl though. You represent everything that is both fun and mischievous in life and you often do naughty things in crop fields at night, but no one has caught you yet. You may be spicy and bittersweet but you have a heart of gold, er, green. Organic throughout you go about your mischief in open toed sandals and after a few pints of your 4.7% grog you may even find yourself dancing naked in public places. You would never hurt a spider, but would have no qualms about throwing a rotten egg at a politician. This makes you a very popular, if sometimes misunderstood refreshment.
As Martin points out, you need to register to get the test results, but you can make the info up.
This is a question it’s well worth considering the answers to before declaring to the media that you’re not breaking them…
Radisson SAS, a Scandinavian-owned hotel chain, has 700 doorway pages – pages designed only to boost its ratings in search engines like Google – Gunnar Bråthen, writer of e-guiden, has discovered. This, though clearly a form of cheating, is fair enough, except Google does not like it and works actively to root out companies who use this strategy – they encourage users to report this practice so that offending sites can be filtered out of their search results. Now, Radisson SAS may still wish to use doorway pages, but they might face a Google ban, and this is where the story becomes interesting. Martin Creydt, administrative director of Radisson SAS Norway has been contacted and has this to say on the subject:
We take the criticism seriously and will go through the matter again from a legal point of view. But our IT department in Denmark does not agree with Google on what ought to be allowed. (…) It would not be beneficial to be banned from Google, but Google cannot one-sidedly define the rules for internet use and search engines. There are a lot of other players we could cooperate with, but it’s clear that Google is important.
(Emphasis mine.) Oh, so you don’t agree with Google on what ought to be allowed? Well, tough luck. It might not have occurred to you, Mr Creydt, or to your IT department, for that matter, but Google happens to have every right to define their own rules – they actually own their own search engine, you know. I would suspect they couldn’t care less about what you, or even the legislators, consider to be fair rules for internet use and search engines. THEY DECIDE. And once they’ve decided, the users decide which search engine they prefer to use. That’s how it works. If that means you don’t want to play, well boo-hoo for you…
I går kveld hadde vi NRK2 på skjermen da Berulfsens program om dyre vaner skulle til å begynne. Til vår store overraskelse – og begeistring – dro hallomannen et stev for å introdusere programmet. Vi jublet der vi satt, og fulgte spent med i neste pause. Desverre ble Rush Hour introdusert på normalt vis – kanskje det ble vurdert dit hen at stev og Jackie Chan ikke går så godt sammen? Hvorfor ikke?
Ja til stev!
Bokklubbene og Nitimen kårer Norges beste krim, men de later til å være noe usikre på hvem som egentlig kom til finalen…
(Det bakeste vinduet er nyhetsbrevet med oppfordingen om å stemme, det forreste er den faktiske avstemningen.) Ikke at det endret min stemme – Bjerke er kongen – men Staalesen kunne jeg vurdert å stemme på, Fossum, derimot, holder jeg meg langt unna.
Jaja.
We like cats. An infinity of cats sounds good to me.
I also need to bring you this picture – I have no idea of the source, so if you know who to credit, please tell me and I will:
Breast cancer awareness is something I am always happy to promote, I am therefore quite happy to point you to Boobiethon which is an annual event where people (mostly of the female persuasion) show off their boobs in aid of charity. Proceeds go to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Through Boobiethon I also found a link to the following “useful” name generator:
| Your Boobies’ Names Are: Siegfried and Roy |
