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Fresher’s Week - Part One
And I wasn't all the things;
I tried to make believe I was.
And I wouldn't be the one to kneel,
Before the dreams I wanted.
And all the talk and all the lies;
Were all the empty things disguised as me.
- "Sympathy", The Goo Goo Dolls
The first half of Fresher's Week I spent with Kit, Claire and the gang, … -
Growing Up
I've done so much this last week, but I'll get around to that later.
This is a special message for all of you who are using Windows Messenger (a.k.a. Microsoft Messenger (a.k.a. MSN Messenger)). It's just a summary of all the reasons you shouldn't be, and why you should be using ICQ instead. If you're an … -
It’s Over
Tomorrow's the first day of the Fresher's Fayre, and Dan can't sleep.
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VeriSign Gets Sued
VeriSign's controversial abuse of the domain name system on Monday led to the first lawsuit against them, today, as reported by SlashDot. In addition, today's UserFriendly cartoon, too, takes the piss out of them.
In other geeky news, did you know that it's now possible to get broadband internet on a Commodore 64. It takes all … -
Cottage Pie
This morning, while picking up my microwavable Cottage Pie from Somerfield (the best microwave meal I've ever had - it's really quite good considering that it's re-heated mincemeat and dehydrated mashed potato), I noticed a new product - a similar item but in a slightly smaller container, as part of their "So Good" range. Upon …
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Sheep
Outside my office window is a large field, which several months ago was divided into three smaller fields, each of which was planted with a different mixture of grass and some other leafy plant. Yesterday, half a dozen sheep with large numbers sprayed onto their flanks were moved into each of these partitions. This morning, …
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VeriSign Kicking Up Yet More Of A Fuss
Still no word from BBC News on the bastards that VeriSign are being, but The Register are on to their second news report on the subject, and SlashDot have information about the technological "fight back". What does a person have to do to keep their state news agency up to date these days?
Have you seen … -
Darwin Was Wrong
The more and more humans I encounter, the more I come to the realisation that Darwin was wrong. The internet provides endless examples of humans so biosociologically defective that whatever it is that makes them tick should have died out eons ago. Us and our damned supportive society harbouring counterproductive genes will be the death …
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First Aid
Yesterday was a long day. After nine hours at work, had two and a half hours of First Aid refresher training at Aberystwyth ambulance station.
On the upside, I'd forgotten how subtly dark paramedics' sense of humour can be... when one particularly overmoral woman expressed concern at a particular element of the training: "But they could … -
UserFriendly And VeriSign
Today's UserFriendly cartoon strip plays on the issue highlighted by yesterday's entry about VeriSign trying to take over the Internet. Really - the geeks are up in arms.
Still no word from BBC News, but the following other agencies have picked up on the story:
"VeriSign redirects error pages" from C|Net News
"VeriSign slammed for helping spammers" from … -
Smart Alex
Alex, my incompetent co-worker, came up with the following gem in today's meeting when talking about a product that would aid employers in securely tracking how long their employees actually spend working:
"It's not going to have any of that... security... nonsense."
I shall have to beat him to death later.
P.S. told you that this thing was … -
VeriSign Adds Wildcards To TLDs
I am outraged.
VeriSign, the company which manages the .COM and .NET domain names, has done the unthinkable. They've taken advantage of and abused their power by setting up a wildcard filter on the primary DNS, pointing to their own server - sitefinder.verisign.com.
Now for those of you who are less technically-inclined, this basically means that every … -
Second Place
I came second in the Cymru Prosper Wales "Enterprising Student" competition, which earned me £100, this morning. Pretty much made my late night and early morning worthwhile. Now I'm back at the office. Needed to come in this afternoon to deploy a new version of a piece of software to a client.
Think I pissed Claire … -
Daddy, Why Did We Have To Attack Iraq
Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
Because they had weapons of mass destruction.
But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
That's because the Iraqis were hiding them.
And that's why we invaded Iraq?
Yep. Invasions always work better than inspections.
But after we invaded them, we STILL didn't find any weapons of mass destruction, did we?
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Amazon Embraces The Religious Divide
In these interesting times, as acts of terrorism committed in the name of religion become more commonplace, I was delighted that Amazon would give me the following suggestion:
AltAmazon - Perfect Partner: Buy Qu'ran and The Holy Bible today!
I might just click on the button, just so I feel that I've done my bit. See also …