Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

Kevin has compiled notes from the battlefield.

Tab cleaning again, these are the links I meant to read today but didn’t have the time to:

1. Set The Bozo Bit
2. How your email gets spammed…
3. Fortt gets it wrong…again
4. A Conversation with Jim Gray
5. Thoughts on the New American Century

This is strange: Somalia – Xeer

The traditional Somali constitution is called the Xeer.

A few weeks ago someone from the UAE IMed me looking to buy my hotmail email address. I asked him why, and he explained that “xeer” means something meaningful in his language. I honestly can’t remember now what it was, but I’m keeping my hotmail account, even if it’s only used to collect spam! I’ve had it since before Microsoft bought hotmail and I’m a little attached to it!

The New American Century eh? Apparently this site has been around for a while, but I never stumbled across it before.. I really don’t think it requires further comment.

…is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world

Here’s the blogjam random kitten generator – lots and lots of photos of cute kittens! 🙂

Thank you Chelle Bell for the gift of shares in Musings. Not sure what I did to deserve it, but thanks again!

Good introduction to ImageMagick from ibm. You’ve probably seen this already as it was mentioned on /. this afternoon. It’s a good read nevertheless!

The Register reports on a new patented technology that compressing Internet data for modem users. It sounds like mod_gzip though.. 😉

Maximise your browser window and take a look at this animation of a famous scene from The Matrix. Be warned that the animation is 4MB in size so it might be wiser to wget it first!

The Register has a reply from Mark McCarron, the author of the “perfect solution to spam” mentioned here a few days ago.
I’m gobsmacked reading through it. He boasts of software piracy and damaging school and public computers! He says that he tortured his computer teacher. He says that his GIEIS servers won’t use TCP/IP, but will be “connected to the rest of the Internet via a bridge (gateway)”.

Conclusion

I am right, everyone else is wrong. Told you I was arrogant.