alecm
alecm
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  • microsoft to appeal

    [news.bbc.co.uk] – by and large i gather this is not an effective defense in other courts; maybe steve ballmer wants to do community service instead? Microsoft claims that it should not be fined at all because it did not know its behaviour would breach EU law.

  • testing a famous theory…

    google says that blackadder was wrong: http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text=fluffy&langpair=en%7Cde&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off

  • nice security links site

    [www.wbglinks.net]

  • interesting people you meet on the web

    Meet… Robert Prince, inventor of the exclusive brake camshaft rotation meter [who] demonstrates for the heavy transport industry the most economical way of computing brake component wear and the limitations of the brake camshaft. The rotation meter was designed to save the trucking industry money and to save the DOT vital brake inspection time, and…

  • idea for a short story

    as documented in another (now defunct) blog, from whose archives i shall one day extract the remainder for posting: occasionally ideas flash through my mind – concepts that i find weird, amusing, or cute – and unless i write them down immediately the are lost. i call them short-story ideas, although i am unlikely ever…

  • “Snow Crash” in Norway?

    although potentially disturbing, and certainly criminal, i truly hope this is not a spoof website: Robber wields sword in gas station heist A gas station in Arendal on Norway’s southern coast was robbed early Tuesday morning by a man dressed like a Japanese ninja. He brandished a sword, seized some cash and fled on a…

  • favicons on macos x under safari

    it appears – according to [www.macosxhints.com] that Safari automatically caches all favicon.ico files and provides no easy way to purge them, thereby explaining the problems I was having in testing the one I created earlier today. Hohum.

  • two minor grammatical gripes

    i am not perfect about these either – sometimes i type the wrong word when my brain is not fully engaged, but for the sake of annotation: the phrase is “hear, hear” not “here, here” – it is meant as a contraction of a phrase like: hear him! hear him! for [he] speaks the truth!…

  • Slashdot: use of a .mail domain to eliminate spam

    Re: [slashdot.org] and [news.bbc.co.uk] steve.m writes “The BBC are reporting on a new batch of top level domain names being submitted to ICANN for approval. By far the most interesting proposal is for a .mail TLD to register legitimate mail servers. Could this eventually be the end of spam ?” *yawn* The same old discussion,…

  • delicacy in advertising

    my colleague simon just returned from a trip to boston massachusetts; being of a dirty turn of mind he remembered particularly the voiceover during a television advert for a drug which (with the help of google) we can reproduce below: [www.cialis.com] Cialis is not for everyone. […] The most common side effects with Cialis were…

  • A seething world of rock and ice

    …surrounded by a sepia glow. [news.bbc.co.uk]

  • Idea to improve the lot of the Virus-Suffering Public.

    If I take action to sue people – preferably some large corporate target – for defamation when they send me an auto-email of the form: You sent me a virus W32.FooBar, here’s a copy of it, and please virus-scan your computer. …would it scare the Americans of this world into not sending this sort of…