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Yearly Archives: 2003
christian dns highjacking
We’re used to the idea that pornographers register all the popular typoed domain names, and that whitehouse._com_ leads you somewhere unexpected. I hadn’t realised that fundies do it too until I hit a mistyped link from a comment on frizzylogic … Continue reading Continue reading
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Zipper l’addon
One of the nice things about OOo is its international quality. Canadian nationalists seem to assume that it must be Canadian, because so many of the best bits are in French; but as far as I can tell, these contributions … Continue reading Continue reading
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historical ironies
At breakfast this morning I was looking through an old Doonesbury book while waiting for the papers to arrive. The year was 1979: the Soviets had just invaded Afghanistan, and Phred, the Vietnamese delegate to the UN, was talking to … Continue reading Continue reading
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the yellow hole
One of the small and simple innovations that will sweep the world, like putting wheels on suitcases, is to make the inside of laptop bags some kind of fierce bright colour so that all the otherwise identical black gadgets that … Continue reading Continue reading
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OOo thoughts
I have been using OpenOffice for the last two years as my primary word processor, even for the sort of short articles for which Word 97 is probably better. I wrote the whole worm book in it without any disasters … Continue reading Continue reading
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Glass half-full or haaaargh?
Should I feel safer because of this?The study of the medical histories of 6,643 men in 24 towns over a 10-year period and found that only 2.8% died from coronary heart disease, instead of the 4.3% predicted using methods recommended … Continue reading Continue reading
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Natural merit
The women, he said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and engaged in sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not … Continue reading Continue reading
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political action
I don’t often like web sites that are flashy in any sense of th e word; and this one has music on it, which would normally put it completely beyond the pale. But it is actually a stunning piece of … Continue reading Continue reading
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spamming today
Two new tactics in the war against humanity conducted by spammers. the first is to use a security hole in MT to send spam onwards from our accounts. The second is to use messages whose text is random nonsense. There … Continue reading Continue reading
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wide-eyed provincial
To London for the weekend. Best to treat these things as holidays to a foreign country, especially when you factor in the cost of restaurant meals. I could have flown to Rome and back for less than the cost of … Continue reading Continue reading
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