Dr Emoto Water Blessings

From an unsolicited spam email:

Greetings,

Have you heard about Dr Emoto, who discovered that placing positive words on water bottles produced beautiful crystals in the water?

We are an inspirational publishing company. Inspired by Dr Emoto we have developed Water Blessing Labels, re-usable static cling decals that you can place on any water container.

Please reply to this email and we will email you our wholesale catalog and offer you a complimentary pack of decals. No obligation.

Customer Service Team

Pearls Of Wisdom Publishing Co.
Spreading Blessings All Over The World

Seems legit, but what happens if you put negative words on water bottles? That would be a nasty trick to play on someone you don’t like!

Searching for Animals

searching for animals

The stand alone Google Photos app went live last night and I’m playing with it this morning. I love that I can search my photos for animals, family or San Francisco and it will return meaningful results.

The app is really nice to use now, I love the new month view for quickly moving back through the years. I only wish Google Backup would work on all DNG files. Despite what their documentation says those files aren’t getting backed up. 🙁

I’m not so fond of the limited editing features. Many of my older photos need to be rotated because they were shot in Jpeg and some app I used long ago changed the rotation bit in the files. To rotate I have to select an image, click the pencil to edit, click the crop tool, click rotate 3 times, save, X. Then move on to another. Hopefully they’ll allow batch editing of photos in the future.

Samy is my Hero

Samy Kamkar

I started listening to the Tim Ferriss podcast after Matt Mullenweg was interviewed by him and I’ve been hooked since.
Tim’s interview with Samy Kamkar is really interesting as he’s the guy who launched the Samy computer worm that infected MySpace back in 2005. It was a little chunk of Javascript code that added itself to MySpace profiles, added Samy as a friend and added him as a hero of the visitor. They took down MySpace to clean it out!

Since then he’s had a really interesting life and the interview covers many subjects like hacking online dating and opening locked cars by hacking their key fobs. Nice to see he’s a Vim user too! 🙂

Check it out here.

The Legion of Saint Joseph are back!

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I knew I recognised the name on that poster. It was created by The Legion of Saint Joseph. They’re the same crowd that dropped a leaflet into our mailbox back in 2012 urging everyone to vote no to the Children’s Rights Amendment referendum that year.

Legion of Saint Joseph

Legion of Saint Joseph

Well, wasn’t it all true? Hasn’t the country descended into “decadence, anarchy and totalitarianism” since that referendum was passed?

Children have had their parents arrested for imposing “restrictive” religious beliefs haven’t they? Didn’t you hear that the Gardai marched into mass last Sunday and dragged out some local parents who had taken their kids there? It’s terrible the way the country has gone since April 28th when this amendment was finally made into law in this country.

Yeah, bet you didn’t know April 28th was the day did you? I only found out when I looked it up on Wikipedia. Not a peep out of the usual suspects.

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