Dropsafe

Amusing log entry – well, I think so anyway – slightly anonymised; this demonstrates that PlanetSun is getting noticed, not least because it is now in Bloglines, which explains the hourly hit I’ve been taking from that site too… Site hit rate now in the 3500+ per day range. ____.chi.playboy.com ip: ___.___.___.___:11302 mtd: GET /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi

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from chris samuel’s blog: [www.csamuel.org]

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Received from my friend Rob Diamond, and probably the next meme-du-jour: [www.albinoblacksheep.com] “Soundtrack made entirely in SNDREC32.EXE”

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…ultralight blog: [www.cl.cam.ac.uk]

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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

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

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

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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

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[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

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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.

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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

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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,

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