alecm
alecm
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  • Ross Anderson’s …

    …ultralight blog: [www.cl.cam.ac.uk]

  • a website hath its rewards

    I keep a historical collection of these things at [www.crypticide.com] but this is the most overt I have had in some considerable time. Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:46:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Harsha XXXXXXXXXX <harshaXXXXX@yahoo.com> Subject: Hi I need Your services Dear Alec Muffett Hi i am looking for some assistance from Hackers. Need help…

  • short vacation.

    Good Friday and Easter Monday are National holidays in the UK. Long weekend. Suffer, foreign pigs. 😎

  • Parking Spots

    artistic fun: ever wondered what a tank parked on the freeway would look like? wanted a sportscar in your driveway? [dubster.com]

  • RSS Considered Harmful

    I strongly object to RSS in the way people are trying to use it. Specifically I am responding to something Glynn Foster wrote at [www.gnome.org] but where I do not so much object – instead I am not sure he has thought through the ramifications of what he is saying. Glynn writes: Even though we…

  • Passive Millimetre Wave Radar Cameras

    [www.spy.org.uk] Guy Kewney reports from the London Wireless LAN Event trade show that Last Mile Communications / TIVIS (Total In Vehicle Information System) Limited seem, somehow, to have done a monopoly deal with the notorious Highways Agency of the Department of Transport to install microwave beacons on 150,000 lamp posts as part of the National…

  • silly spam names

    my friend jim over at [found.pale.org] has an occasional thread relating to amusing sender/from names that you encounter in spam; i’ve just received a selection of doosies: From: “Turmerics B. Rubbernecking” <leasing@yesanother.com> From: “Wrapping F. Sedan” <severity@notvoting.com> From: “Pipit G. Compartmentalize” <expounds@did-the-earth-move.com> From: “Entomb H. Legged” <accountably@englandcaptain.com> From: “Hideousness P. Globes” <constrict@i-love-west-ham.com> From: “Further G.…

  • pictures from bel & the dragon

    See [www.crypticide.com] and the following few images; highlights include: The back of Steve’s head Lorraine the firebrand Nobby failing to hide behind Jon Newlyweds to be, Grim and Holly

  • “no, really, i think it’s sweet…”

    It’s wonderful! you install a piece of new software on MacOS X and it optimises the entire disk for you, prelinking shared library thunks or somesuch for speed of execution/launch… You then hit Software Update to patch the piece of software you’ve just installed, and it goes and optimises the disk all over again… Optimisation,…

  • orkut as automatic e-mail whitelist for gmail?

    interesting thought: [jefferson.blogs.com]

  • a blog, deserving of wider attention

    I know people like this – sorta – but they are nothing like this: the LiveJournal of a Buffy-obsessed fanfic-writing former ballet dancer who now serves in the US Army in Iraq. Link: [www.livejournal.com] Extract from [www.livejournal.com] They say women don t belong in combat. I dont think that anybody does, frankly. But after today,…

  • looking for music / bands that are similar to your favourites?

    [musicplasma.com]